Tucker, Walter R., III (1957- )

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GTT says 17 cancer patients helped via Pinktober grants

Seventeen cancer patients have been able to access treatment here through a $2.2M grant from GTT’s Pinktober

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Bunting: PNP palace guards caused overblown response to letter

Central Manchester Member of Parliament (MP) Peter Bunting has suggested that individuals inside the People’s National Party (PNP) who consider themselves “palace guards” and not him should be blamed for the latest round of discord to rock the 81-year-old political

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Producer Chris "Big Dog" Davis on Battling Lymphoma For a Second Time While Making His Debut Album | - Where Wellness & Culture Connect

As a producer, Chris “Big Dog” Davis has worked with the likes of musical icons like Brian McKnight, George Clinton, Syleena Jonson and Will Downing, to name

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Aurora, Colorado Mayor On New Probe Into Death Of Elijah McClain

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Mike Coffman, mayor of Aurora, Colorado where Elijah McClain, a Black man, died after police officers forcefully detained him in August

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Source: Stories About Black History

Poll: Many Americans won't return to gyms, dining out

Just 42 per cent of those who went to concerts, movies, theatres or sporting events, at least monthly before the outbreak, say they'd do so in the next few weeks if they

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Kenyans Living Beyond Their 60s, Shows Report

Kenyans' life expectancy at birth (or how long, on average, a newborn can expect to live, if current death rates do not change unexpectedly), has increased from 50 years for men and 49 years for women to 64.4 years and 68.9 years

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Obesity: The risk lurking in the shadows during the COVID-19 pandemic

Reports from the National Health Service in the United Kingdom suggest that almost two-thirds of coronavirus patients who fall seriously ill have obesity, and more than half of the patients in intensive care in U.K. hospitals due to the virus have overweight — a technical term for specific excess

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Kenya: COVID-19 - National Tally Rises to 3,594 After 137 More Test Positive

He said that the number of samples tested so far stands at 115, 336, adding that Nyeri has nine persons infected by the virus including three health workers who contracted the disease from a patient who died after undergoing surgery

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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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Nigeria Records 276 New Coronavirus Cases, 16 Deaths

Nigeria, on Tuesday, reported 276 new cases of COVID-19 bringing the new tally of confirmed cases in the country to 8, 344, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control has

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Kenya: Why Habida is Scared She Might Have Breast Cancer

Kenyan songstress Habida Maloney on Wednesday revealed that she is scared she may have breast cancer after finding a lump in one of her

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Scatman Crothers, the veteran of show business who was first black featured on Los Angeles TV

Even when Scatman Crothers was diagnosed with lung cancer in 1985, he continued to work on television; the cancer eventually spread to his esophagus and killed him on November 22, 1986 in Van

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First Thing: US has three months to prepare for second Covid-19 wave, say scientists

A group of nine leading scientists who advised President Barack Obama has warned that the US has just three months to rebuild its stockpile of emergency medical equipment if it wants to be prepared for a second wave of coronavirus in the

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Ernest Just - Death

Ernest Just died on October 27, 1941 of cancer, leaving behind a wife, Ethel, and three children.

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A Tribute To Lorraine Hansberry's 'Les Blancs'

Yet 50 years later, Hansberry’s “Les Blancs” remains a radical testament to her global vision and

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The Trifecta of Black Disempowerment: Poverty, Pollution, and the Pandemic

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Bonnie Pointer of The Pointer Sisters Passes Away at Age 69

Bonnie Pointer, a founding member of The Pointer Sisters, passed away on Monday, June 8 at age 69 in Los

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Grammy-winning 1970s soul singer Betty Wright dies at 66

MIAMI (AP) — Betty Wright, the Grammy-winning soul singer and songwriter whose influential 1970s hits included “Clean Up Woman” and “Where is the Love,” has died at age

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Cold War Radiation Experiment on Black Cancer Patients (1960-1971)

From 1960 to 1971, Dr. Eugene Saenger, a radiologist at the University of Cincinnati, led an experiment exposing 88 patients with cancer, poor, and black to whole body

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Covid-19 could cancel 28 million surgeries

During the onset of the coronavirus in the country, elective surgeries across all government hospitals were suspended in March, forcing thousands of Kenyans in need of one or more of these scheduled surgeries to restore their lives to

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Cape Town under 55 test rationing: Province explains what to do if you have Covid-19 symptoms

The Western Cape government is rationing its Covid-19 testing in Cape Town, prioritising people it considers to be most at risk amid a nationwide backlog in test results and increased demand as it approaches its Covid-19

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Betty Wright (1953-2020): World Says Goodbye to the `Clean Up Woman’ | Afro

And that belief was affirmed over the weekend with the death of another music legend, Betty Wright on May

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Sister Angella Harris a ‘gentle giant of a woman’

Veteran educator and Franciscan Sister Angella Harris was yesterday hailed as a woman steeped in grace and humility as family, friends, and colleagues and several persons whose lives she touched joined in a memorial service to salute

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L.A. DIGEST: Museum to offer virtual tour of shuttle

EXPOSITION PARK — The California Science Center is launching virtual reality tours of Space Shuttle Endeavour May 15, giving the spacecraft a new mission: educating and entertaining those staying at

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Implicit Bias a Driver of COVID-19 among African Americans

Dr. Melva Thompson-Robinson knows the data on the disparate impact of the corona virus and COVID-19 on African Americans and other

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Zimbabwe: Albinism Community Calls for Government Subsidised Sunscreen Lotions

The Albinism Community in Zimbabwe has urged the government to avail subsidised sunscreen lotions as a means to protect members from possible cancer and related

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Zoom Parties, Missed Proms, Uncertain Futures. High School Seniors Share What It’s Like To Come Of Age During A Pandemic | The Oklahoma Eagle

The young adults graduating from high school this year will be defined by their Zoom educations and viral TikToks, but also by their lost summer jobs and unpredictable

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Teaching Kids To Hide From Gunfire: Safety Drills At Day Care And At Home

Tess Trice, head of the day care program, carries out monthly drills to train the children to get on the floor when they hear

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Oretha Castle: Civil Rights Activists & Organizer of the New Orleans Sickle Cell Anemia Foundation

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