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PA inching toward 80,000 COVID-19 cases since early March
Pennsylvania crept closer Monday to hitting a new milestone: nearly 80,000 COVID-19 infections since Gov. Tom Wolf announced the first cases on March
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Rebecca Lee Crumpler: First African-American Woman to Become a Physician
Rebecca Davis Lee Crumpler is the first African-American woman to earn a medical degree. She was also the first African-American to publish a text concerning medical discourse. The text, A Book of Medical Discourses was published in
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Kenya: One Woman's Race to Save Girls From 'The Cut', Early Marriage
Dr Kulea, an anti-female genital mutilation and gender activist, is the founder and executive director of the Samburu Girls
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Eight surprises in House Democrats' $3T coronavirus relief bill
House Democrats on Tuesday released their latest proposal for coronavirus relief — a massive package designed largely to press reluctant GOP leaders in the Senate and White House to get moving on another infusion of emergency
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Source: The Hill
Prairie View A&M University (1878-- )
Prairie View A&M University, the first state-supported college in Texas for African Americans, was founded as part of the post-Civil War effort to restructure education in the state of Texas. It is the second oldest state-funded institution of higher education in
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J’can philanthropist loses mother to COVID-19
Pastor Emanuel Azan is a broken man as on Saturday his mother, Tilletha Hyde, lost her battle with COVID-19 at Jacoby Hospital in New
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Harrowing Blame Game Over COVID-19 Toll In Nursing Homes | Afro
The Trump administration has been pointing to a segment of the industry — facilities with low federal ratings for infection control — and to some Democratic governors who required nursing homes to take recovering coronavirus
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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority
Somalia: Boy Shot, Woman Injured By Unknown Gunmen in Benadir
A young man was shot dead and a woman wounded by unknown gunmen in Dharkenley district of Benadir region Sunday
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Rachael Suggs Pitts, An Early Pioneer In Virus Surveillance, Turns 99
Pitts — who received her nurse training at Brewster Hospital Nursing Program for colored girls in Jacksonville, Florida, which was one of the few nursing schools for African American girls in the United States – says that she was fortunate to have a nursing school director who had links to
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Coronavirus Update: Maryland’s Oldest African-American-Owned and Operated Nursing Home Untouched By Coronavirus
The pandemic has ravaged nursing homes across the country, with deaths in these facilities accounting for the majority of deaths in the U.S. Nearly 19,000 positive cases of coronavirus have been in the Black community in Maryland, and those elderly residents are part of the most vulnerable
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Nigeria coronavirus: 13,464 cases; record 663 new cases; Kaduna 'reopens'
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Nigeria coronavirus: 14,554 cases, Buhari's June 12 address stresses virus impact
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After Record COVID Week, Some California Counties to Reverse Reopening Plans
(CALMATTERS) – As COVID-19 cases in California surged past 200,000 and statewide hospitalizations continued to set all-time highs every day this week, Gov. Gavin Newsom started to tap the brakes today — urging especially hard-hit Imperial County to reinstate its stay-at-home
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Nigeria coronavirus: 17,148 cases; govt hails role of media
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How Seniors Can Protect Their Health And Finances During The Pandemic
That’s why older Americans need to be especially careful and – in the case of the very elderly – family members may need to step in to make sure they are taking the right precautions, says Chris Orestis, the president of LifeCare Xchange and a national senior care
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Information on nursing home, residential facility clusters to be released Monday
In the last LDH report on the number of clusters, which consist of two or more cases at a single facility, there were 46 identified across the state — just over nine percent of the registered homes in the
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Too many African American children are born in shackles
Police serve as an occupying force in poor communities of color because those communities exist – often created by red-lining – worsened by savage inequality of schools and health care and job
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What Can I Do with A Black Studies Major? Five Hundred Answers Provided by Robert Fikes, Jr.
In the 1971 Woody Allen film, “Bananas,” a fellow employee asks Allen’s character, “What would you have been if you finished school?”  Allen’s character answers, “I was in the black studies program. By now I could have been black.”  Allen’s attempted humorous jab
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Nigeria coronavirus: 17,735 cases; six local airlines set to fly
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US faces Memorial Day like no other
ATLANTA, United States (AP) — Americans marked a Memorial Day like no other yesterday as the coronavirus pandemic upended traditional commemorations and forced communities to honour the nation's military dead with smaller, more subdued ceremonies like car convoys and online tributes instead of
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Newsom orders seven counties to close bars as coronavirus surges
Bars are required to close in Fresno, Imperial, Kern, Kings, Los Angeles, San Joaquin and Tulare counties — which have been on the state’s watch list for more than two weeks — and recommended to close in Contra Costa, Riverside, Sacramento, San Bernardino, Santa Barbara, Santa Clara, Stanislaus and
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County facing big price tag recovering from pandemic
LOS ANGELES — Returning to some form of economic normalcy may come with a big price tag for Los Angeles County, as leaders representing hospitals, the arts, nonprofits, labor and faith-based organizations looked to the Board of Supervisors June 16 to help source personal protective gear, expand
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COMMENTARY: COVID-19 — My Personal Battle from a Positive to a Negative Result
As this continued to happen, I made the decision to call the Chief Medical Officer for United Memorial Medical Center (UMMC), Dr. Joseph Varon and share my
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AMHVoices: Ziyambi, don’t be that heartless
Well, the three may have a case to answer regarding the flash demonstration, but what concerns me is the fact that the minister refused to answer a simple question he had been asked about what is being done to investigate their
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300 Tested for COVID-19 Doctors Consortium Sets up at Masjidullah Philadelphia | Muslim Journal
PHILADELPHIA, Penn. – The Black Doctors COVID-19 Consortium offered free coronavirus testing at Masjidullah on Tues., May 5, 2020, marking the first time the group has organized an effort at an Islamic house of
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Nigeria coronavirus: 16,085 cases, resident docs strike
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School Principal Tells Black Teen She Can't Graduate Because of Her Braids
Gladewater, TX — Kienjanae “KJ” Hooper, an 18-year old high school senior from Texas, says she was heartbroken when the principal at her school told her she was not allowed to march and graduate at the in-person ceremony unless she removes or covers her
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Covid-19 claims 29 lives in Breede Valley over 2 months - residents urged to take greater care
The simple, kind act of sharing food with a workmate could turn out to be the pathway to Covid-19, the Breede Valley Municipality's disaster management director has
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Grambling State University (1901-- )
Grambling State University was founded in 1901 in Grambling, Louisiana. In the post- Civil War effort to build schools for former African American slaves, several colleges were established in Louisiana.  All of them were concentrated in the more populous southern portion of the state including
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The Impact of COVID-19 in Our Community: Let’s Not Put Our Health at Risk
New research seems to confirm that, across the nation, the coronavirus has disproportionately impacted Black people, with death rates more than twice as high as that for any other
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