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Biden taps former FDA chief Kessler to lead vaccine science - Black News Channel
By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR and MATTHEW PERRONE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Joe Biden has picked a former Food and Drug commissioner to lead vaccine science in his drive to put 100 million shots into the arms of Americans in his administration's first 100 days and stem the
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New Cal NAACP Chief Appoints Sac Woman Executive Director — The Sacramento Observer
(CBM) - The new president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) California-Hawaii State Conference is keeping in step with a national movement making strides to level the playing field for Black women - long underrepresented in both private and public sector
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Groundbreaking Appointment: Liane Randolph to Chair CARB - Black Voice News
S. E. Williams | Executive Editor Last week California Gov. Gavin Newsom made another historic appointment when he named Liane Randolph as the first African American to Chair of the California Air Resources Board (CARB). “Cleaner air is essential for California’s families and Lian
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U.S. Congressman Jim Clyburn Says Gov. Newsom Must Appoint Black Woman to U.S. Senate
U.S. Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-South Carolina), the Majority Whip of the U.S. House of Representatives and highest-ranking African American in Congress, said California Gov. Gavin Newsom must appoint a Black woman to replace Sen. Kamala Harris in the U.S. Senate. “Black women play a critical role in
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Trump Impeached…Again: Citizens Weigh in on Vote, Riot and Aftermath – Texas Metro News
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Mellody Hobson Named Board Chair of Starbucks
Mellody Hobson, a Princeton graduate who in 2019 earned the Woodrow Wilson Award, the university’s highest honor, has been named chair of the board of Starbucks. With the promotion, Hobson becomes the only African American woman to chair a Fortune 500 company.
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Scientists focus on bats for clues to prevent next pandemic
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) - Night began to fall in Rio de Janeiro's Pedra Branca state park as four Brazilian scientists switched on their flashlights to traipse along a narrow trail of mud through a dense rainforest. The researchers were on a mission: capture bats and help prevent the next
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Church vandalism exposes divisions over faith and politics - DefenderNetwork.com
Vandalism at four downtown Washington churches after rallies in support of President Donald Trump is exposing rifts among people of faith as the nation confronts bitter post-election political divisions. Among the damaged houses of worship were two historically Black churches where people ripped
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‘Do unto others’ . . . that’s especially true in a relationship’ 
By Sydney Melson The Birmingham Times  “You Had Me at Hello’’ highlights married couples and the love that binds them. If you would like to be considered for a future “Hello’’ column, or know someone, please send nominations to Erica Wright ewright@birminghamtimes.com. Include the
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Camille Cosby: Capitol Insurrection a Reminder that ‘Hatred is a Hellish Emotion’
By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia Dr. Camille Cosby has unleashed a scathing commentary in the aftermath of the
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Electoral College makes it official: Biden won, Trump lost - DefenderNetwork.com
The Electoral College decisively confirmed Joe Biden on Monday as the nation's next president, ratifying his November victory in an authoritative state-by-state repudiation of President Donald Trump's refusal to concede he had lost.The presidential electors gave Biden a solid majority of 306
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Biden Taps Buttigieg for Transportation, Granholm for Energy - Black Voice News
Michael Balsamo, Jonathan Lemire, Thomas Beaumont, and Ellen Knickmeyer | Associated Press President-elect Joe Biden nominated his former rival Pete Buttigieg as secretary of transportation on Tuesday and intends to choose former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm as his energy secre
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Here are Rolling Stone's best movie picks of 2020 [video]
From a black-and-white ode to Old Hollywood to a reggae-soaked mood piece and a Romanian doc, here are Rolling Stone's best movies of 2020.
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Hollywood Wasn’t Ready for Natalie Desselle
The late actress was relegated to roles as the fat and funny sidekick, but she could’ve been so much more Continue reading on ZORA »
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Black and Brown students fall behind on distance learning track | Education | The Michigan Chronicle
Black students aren’t learning online. The sudden switch to remote learning wiped out academic gains for many students in America, and widened racial and economic gaps with some losing the equivalent of a full school year’s worth of academic gains. Even though schools have made Herculean efforts in
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Large Scale Vaccination Sites Open, Vulnerable Groups Death Rate Increases - Los Angeles Sentinel
As of Monday, January 11, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health confirmed 137 new deaths and new cases 12,617 of COVID-19. There were 7,910 people with COVID-19 hospitalized with 22% of these people in the ICU. According to the L.A. County Dept. of Public Health, statistics show that
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Take in Inauguration Day from home with these food and drink specials and virtual events - African American News Today - EIN Presswire
… Cabinet: The Story of the African Americans Who Have Fed Our First … and Wanda Joell, the first African American woman to serve on Air …
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Supreme Court rejects Republican attack on Biden victory - DefenderNetwork.com
The Supreme Court on Friday rejected a lawsuit backed by President Donald Trump to overturn Joe Biden’s election victory, ending a desperate attempt to get legal issues rejected by state and federal judges before the nation’s highest court and subvert the will of voters. The high court’s order was
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Calls to Dump the Electoral College Fainter After Joe Biden’s Win. : ThyBlackMan.com
(ThyBlackMan.com) After trying and failing at everything under the sun to get President Elect Joe Biden’s win scrubbed, Trump had one last desperate card to play, both involved the electoral college. One was to try to get the legislatures in the swing states that gave their electoral votes to
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Pandemic Shortens U.S. Life Expectancy, Study Concludes
The deaths caused by the pandemic appear to be shortening overall life expectancy in the U.S. by 1.13 years, which would be the largest single decline in at least 40 years.
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Midway through plagued first term, Newsom’s career hits make-or-break point — The Sacramento Observer
(CALMATTERS) - Speaking to the camera from his home office during the final days of a family quarantine, Gov. Gavin Newsom seemed at times to be giving himself a pep talk, as much as encouraging 40 million Californians to hunker down amid a coronavirus spike threatening to overwhelm hospitals. “We
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Michigan AG: Texas 'has no standing to disenfranchise' 39 million voters - TheGrio
Dana Nessel, the attorney general of Michigan, rebuked a Texas lawsuit seeking to overturn the presidential election results of four... View Article The post Michigan AG: Texas 'has no standing to disenfranchise' 39 million voters appeared first on TheGrio.
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Pastor Of Black Church Vandalized After Pro-Trump Rally Hopes More Christians Speak Up
Rev. Ianther Mills hopes for more widespread condemnation of the protesters who burned Asbury United Methodist Church's Black Lives Matter sign.
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21 Gifts For Divalicious Holidays 2020 - No. 21 Shoe Crazy Wine & RichWine For Every Holiday Occasion (Hanukkah! Christmas! Kwanzaa! Festivus!) Shop These Black-Owned Businesses! - DivaGalsDaily
Toast the holidays with these black-owned wine brands! Shoe Crazy Wine. This African-American, woman-owned and operated wine company is run by mother/daughter team Gwen and Brittny Hurt. The brand works with top vineyards in California to develop their unique
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U.S. Looks to Iceland as it Seeks to Boost Geothermal Energy Growth – The Wilmington Journal
Just beneath the surface of the Earth lies a tremendous untapped source of energy that could help the United States meet renewable energy targets and mitigate the effects of climate change. Geothermal energy — derived [...]
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Health Officials Sound Alarm on Rising Coronavirus Cases
Dr. Robert Redfield, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), has sounded the alarm about the increasing number of coronavirus deaths in the U.S.
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California throws open COVID vaccines to anyone 65 and older — The Sacramento Observer
(CALMATTERS) - California is opening COVID-19 vaccines to all residents 65 and older — an announcement that comes amid a slower-than-expected vaccination rollout and growing frustration among seniors most vulnerable to the virus. State health officials had previously declared that California would
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What’s Holding Up California’s Rollout of COVID-19 Vaccines — The Sacramento Observer
(CBM) - More than fourteen days into January, California has not distributed as many COVID-19 vaccines as previously estimated. Gov. Gavin Newsom first acknowledged on Jan. 4 that the state’s vaccine rollout was “not good enough.” As of Jan. 8, less than a third of the over 2 million doses of
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Former Athlete Rafer Johnson, Country Musician Charley Pride, both 86
Black America lost two of its iconic figures this month. Both born in 1934, Rafer Lewis Johnson died of a stroke on December 2 in Los Angeles and Charley Frank Pride was a COVID-19 victim who succumbed on December 12 in Dallas, Texas. Both men were athletes, Johnson an Olympic decathlete, and Pride
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Keeping it Real — Betrayal - Black Voice News
Riverside County is home to one of four California Representatives counted among the “Disgraceful 126” S.E. Williams | Executive Editor It was a remarkably shameful act, not surprising, but shameful nonetheless. To imagine 126 Republicans from the U.S. House of Representatives joi
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