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As COVID-19 Phase 3 Vaccine Studies Begin, We Must Improve Minority Participation in Clinical Trials | Afro

In addition, sterilizing Native American women without their consent, and the infamous Tuskegee syphilis experiment, led to a justifiable fear and luck of trust by people of color regarding clinical trial participation in the

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16-year-old dies after screaming ‘I can't breathe’ as homecare employees abuse him

A 16-year-old Cornelius Fredericks in the care of a for-profit residential youth center in Kalamazoo reportedly died two days after employees put their full weight on his chest for nearly 10 minutes, according to attorneys for his

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Thomas, Clarence

Thomas, Clarence, 1948–, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1991–), b. Pin Point (Savannah), Ga. Raised in a poor family, he graduated (1974) from the Yale Law School and became a prominent black conservative active in Republican causes. He chaired the Equal Employment Opportunity

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City Of Seattle Launches New COVID-19 Education And Outreach Team

On Tuesday, Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan announced a series of new actions to combat the spread of COVID-19 as local public health officials brace for a rise in cases in King

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Zorie, 105, defied COVID-19 and the odds

According to Geneveiva De Mattos, a great-niece of the elderly woman, her great aunt was placed in the care of the then “Alms Home” at a young age, by a now-deceased brother who was unable to care for

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26-Year-Old Black NYC Woman Who Died During C-Section Further Highlights Need For Black Maternal Health Care Reform - Blavity

The death of Sha-Asia Washington while giving birth to her daughter has led to outcries for justice and a change in Black maternal health care.

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Africa: Great News on COVID-19 Treatment – But Not Good Enough Yet

That's according to Oxford University researchers Peter Horby and Martin Landray, who are conducting treatment experiments as part of the large Recovery Trial – a large, randomised controlled trial of possible treatments for patients admitted to hospital with

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Tina Knowles-Lawson, Beyoncé Knowles Carter, Mothers of the Movement Urge Senate to Pass HEROES Act

Over the past seven years, states and localities have reverted to discriminatory practices that restrict the voting rights of Black, Brown, Native, and Asian American people and have put up unnecessary roadblocks to the

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NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week | The Atlanta Voice

On Tuesday, June 23 — the same day as New York state’s primary election — an image of the tweet supposedly posted by Ocasio-Cortez circulated rapidly on Twitter, Facebook and

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Voters Should Grant Democrats Their Death Wish

These are the dangling entrails of the panic that the national political media, which are unofficially conducting the Democratic campaign in the unheroic absence of the putative nominee, have sown about the coronavirus and the impression, desperately promoted, identifying Trump with the recent

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Quadruplets die in government-run hospital

YAOUNDE, Cameroon When 21-year-old Anne Christelle Ntsama gave birth to quadruplets, she was over the moon. She believed her children, who had been born prematurely at Yaounde Central Hospital, one of the largest public hospitals in Cameroon, would grow into adulthood. But soon after their

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Disregard for protocols could see closure of beaches again

THE Government is reviewing its decision to reopen Jamaica's rivers and beaches for public use, after finding “flagrant and repeated” breaches of the COVID-19 protocols to minimise the risk of spreading the novel

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Quadruplets die in government-run hospital - The Mississippi Link

YAOUNDE, Cameroon When 21-year-old Anne Christelle Ntsama gave birth to quadruplets, she was over the moon. She believed her children, who had been born prematurely at Yaounde Central Hospital, one of the largest public hospitals in Cameroon, would grow into adulthood. But soon after their

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Fauset, Crystal Bird (1894–1965)

Crystal Bird Fauset, the first African-American female state legislators in the United States, was born on June 27, 1894 in Princess Anne, Maryland. She grew up in Boston, Massachusetts but spent most of her adult and political life in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Between 1914 and 1918 Fauset worked

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Vaccine offers hope for malaria prevention in pregnancy

Malaria in pregnancy is still a major concern for the health sector due to the detrimental effects it has on infected mothers and their unborn children.

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Major sanitisation of St James Street, Sam Sharpe Square on Sunday

CARIBBEAN Cement Company Limited and Jamaica Pre-Mix Concrete Limited are assiting the St James Municipal Corporation to sanitise streets in the parish capital, Montego

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City council moves forward with plan to dismantle police force;...

With a unanimous 12-0 vote, today the city council moved forward with efforts to dismantle the Minneapolis Police Department in the wake of the fatal police arrest of George

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Gov. Greg Abbott Expresses Regret Over Reopening Texas Bars During Coronavirus | Dallas Weekly

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Cassava launches Sasai health status report

Cassava Fintech International (CFI), a subsidiary of the Econet Group, has launched the Sasai Health Status Report (SHSR), a secure blockchain technology-supported solution expected to digitise the testing process, establish citizens’ COVID-19 status, enable them to share their testing results

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Black Business Owners Have Mixed Feelings About the 'Defund The Police' Campaign

A survey of black business owners shows mixed feelings on defunding the police, a campaign championed by the Black Lives Matter movement that would reduce police budgets and reallocate those funds to improve other areas like education, public health, housing, and youth services, reports The

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When The Snapback Isnt Snapping Back

The media tends to primarily highlight who gained weight, who lost weight, how they lose it, and why you should question your existence for not doing the same after having a baby. Postpartum is so much deeper than just weight loss.

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Atlanta City Council approves $88.4 million in Federal Coronavirus Relief Funding

• An ordinance to amend the levy provisions of the Code of Ordinances for the purpose of changing the ad valorem tax rates for personal property, bond indebtedness, parks, school operations/debt and special tax districts, and provide that those rates remain fixed for one year in compliance with the

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Latino, Black neighborhoods struggle with test disparities - DefenderNetwork.com

A Latino cook whose co-worker got COVID-19 waited in his truck for a free swab at a rare testing event in a low-income neighborhood in Phoenix. A Hispanic tile installer queued up after two weeks of self-isolation while his father battled the coronavirus in intensive care. He didnt know his dad

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Wesson, Martinez Call for Reforms to Replace Police Officers with Non-Law Enforcement Agencies For Non-Violent Calls

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Study: Pregnant women can pass on coronavirus to unborn children

IT is possible for a pregnant woman to transmit the virus that causes COVID-19, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), to her unborn child, scientists from Italy reported yesterday.This was revealed in a study done among 31 pregnant women with the disease - which has resulted

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Cameroon hospitals turn to telemedicine

Some health facilities in Cameroon are turning to telemedicine as patients have been keeping away from and fleeing medical facilities for fear of contracting the coronavirus Covid-19, which has so far killed 313 people in the

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Ethiopia poll body 'rejects' Tigray region's request to hold elections

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Africa: Alternatives to Conventional Tobacco: The Unwavering Stance of Scientists and Experts

Under the theme "Science, ethics and human rights", more than thirty experts/scientists from the public health sector, tobacco industry, tobacco control sector, and consumers, discussed various topics including the relevance of science versus ideology, the importance of a patient centered

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Durkan Issues Executive Order To Extend COVID-19 Closures And Relief Policies

On Thurs., Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan issued an Executive Order to extend the City of Seattle’s COVID-19 closure and relief

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