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Fauci Stresses COVID-19 Disparities in African Americans
Dr. i has embarked on somewhat of a media tour in recent weeks.
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Sarah Gray: Established the Excelsior School in 1867
Sarah Gray established the Excelsior School, where she taught reading, writing, math, and geography, and also trained her female pupils in needlework as a way for them to earn a living. Gray was born in Alexandria, Virginia to parents William and Laura Dundas Gray. As her father was free and her
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Dallas Weekly News: Ep. 87- Hostage situation after Texas Officers shot ends peacefully | Dallas Weekly
Today in Dallas Weekly News, hostage situation after Texas Officers shot ends peacefully, University of Texas is giving Coach Vic Schaefer a 7-year Deal worth $13.8 Million, and the Dallas city hospital report.
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State’s Top Doc Burke-Harris to Lead Advisory Team as African Americans Raise COVID-19 Vaccine Concerns - African American News Today - EIN Presswire
… and echoed by skeptical African Americans across the country. … vaccines and verified that African Americans are included in … pandemic in California’s African American communities. Asked whether the … as being messengers to African American physicians who then …
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Newswire: African Americans die more frequently from Covid-19, but MIT researchers say poverty isn’t why
By Donna Fuscaldo, Zenger News Service Black Americans are dying from Covid-19 more frequently than white people. But two researchers found it’s not because of obesity or poverty.Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management professor Christopher Knittel and graduate research
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Nigeria: Measles - Adamawa to Vaccinate More Than 280,000 Children - Official
[Premium Times] Governor Fintiri says the introduction of the second dose vaccine was part of renewed efforts to reduce morbidity and mortality rate from measles
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“Da 5 Bloods” and America Abroad | New Pittsburgh Courier
  by Oscar Blayton I get an ache in my heart every time someone who learns that I am a Vietnam veteran, says “Thank you for your service.” Even before I returned to the United States from my combat tour in Vietnam, I had decided that we were fighting an unjust war. More than 50
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Race for the Net – Part 1 – The Untold History of When African Americans Controlled the Internet
Internet technology, which has changed the way we communicate, is estimated to generate global economic wealth totaling more than $7 trillion. In an era where the lives, contributions and achievements by African Americans are becoming more recognized and appreciated, we now can be aware that this
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Beyonce’s ‘Black Is King’ Asks The Question We Hate To Answer - Essence - African American News Today - EIN News
… their cultures. Much of what African Americans know about the continent often … offers an ornate reminder for Black Americans, who have dared to investigate …
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Canada approves first COVID-19 vaccine, expects inoculations next week - Stabroek News
OTTAWA,  (Reuters) - Canada yesterday approved its first COVID-19 vaccine and said initial shots will be delivered and administered across the country starting next week, while every Canadian will be able to be inoculated as early as the end of
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We mustn’t let our ‘community immunity’ lapse -
To be able to safely return to any sense of what was normal before COVID-19, it is clear we will need a vaccine.

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Golden State Warriors’ Draymond Green Takes Defense Skills to New Arena
Draymond Green, 30, has won three National Basketball Association (NBA) Championships with the San Francisco-based Golden State Warriors and is known to be an agitator on the court.       Now, the three-time NBA All-Defensive First Team selection has mounted an attack off the hardwood in another
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As BLM Goes Global, It’s Building on Centuries of Black Internationalist Struggle – Free Press of Jacksonville
By Brandon R. Byrd  - At approximately 8:19 p.m. on the evening of May 25, Derek Chauvin, a 19-year veteran of the Minneapolis Police Department, brought his weight down upon George Floyd’s neck. Floyd, a 46-year-old [...]
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Facebook Removes Numerous Fake Pages & Instagram Accounts Pretending To Be Black Trump Supporters
Facebook removed numerous Facebook groups that social network says were a part of a troll farm that were pretending to be African Americans supporting the occupant in the White House, Donald Trump, as well as QAnon supporters.
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Germany readies vaccine centers amid security concerns - Black News Channel
By Associated Press Undefined BERLIN (AP) — Officials in Germany said Friday that they are taking the potential for attacks on mass vaccination centers into consideration as they set up sites to prepare for European Union regulators authorizing the first coronavirus vaccines. Britain gave the green
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Covid-19: SA's Aspen could produce J&J vaccine shots by end of March | News24
Aspen Pharmacare could start production of Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccines in South Africa by late March or early April if all approvals are in place, a senior company executive said.
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Column: Amid COVID-19 Pandemic, National Black Physicians Group Addresses Disparities – Free Press of Jacksonville
As a family physician in Columbus, when someone has chest pain with exertion that might be caused by a blockage of a heart artery, I order a cardiac stress test. The coronavirus pandemic is a [...]
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Survey: Most Americans willing to vaccinate for COVID-19 - African American News Today - EIN News
… is the racial disparity with African-Americans reporting substantially lower likelihoods of … the virus has had on African- Americans, this is an important gap … vaccinate, just 52 percent of African-American respondents said the same. Respondents …
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African Americans have long defied white supremacy and celebrated Black culture in public spaces - African American News Today - EIN News
From Richmond to New York City to Seattle, anti-racist activists are getting results as Confederate monuments are coming down by the dozens. In Richmond, Virginia, protesters have changed the story of Lee Circle, home to a 130-year-old monument to Confederate General Robert E. Lee. It’s now a new
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States ramp up for biggest vaccination effort in US history - DefenderNetwork.com
With a COVID-19 vaccine drawing closer, public health officials across the country are gearing up for the biggest vaccination effort in U.S. history — a monumental undertaking that must distribute hundreds of millions of doses, prioritize who’s first in line and ensure that people who get the
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Big Mac Racism at McDonald’s - Dallas Post Tribune
By Whitney Gresham and Trevor W. Coleman II at The Michigan Chronicle For more than 50 years, the McDonald’s Corporation took pride in branding itself as a socially conscious corporation particularly interested in doing business in abandoned and long-ignored Black communities while embracing racial
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September 8: Following The Clinton Massacre, Mississippi's Governor Ordered Protection For Black Voters Today in 1875
Photo credits: The Zinn Education Project TheReconstruction eraClinton Massacre began on Sept. 4, 1875, in the small town of Clinton,Mississippiat aRepublicanrally to introduce the party’s candidates who were running for political office in the upcoming November elections. The immediate death toll
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Dallas Weekly News: Ep.97- The City Of Dallas partners with Cisco to promote Digital Inclusion in Dallas Communities | Dallas Weekly
Today in Dallas Weekly News, The City Of Dallas partners with Cisco to promote Digital Inclusion in Dallas Communities, A Man killed his wife and two sons for being too loud, and the Dallas city hospital report.
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UC’s Black Leaders Call On System To Make Changes — The Sacramento Observer
Over the past few months, White America has offered up a plethora of statements denouncing bias and other bad behavior along with promises to stand with those demanding change. African Americans within the UC system want to see that fervor go beyond the surface, beyond the moment, and have issued
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‘Lifetime of discrimination’ equals increased hypertension in African Americans - African American News Today - EIN News
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7 in 10 African Americans report knowing people mistreated by police: poll - African American News Today - EIN News
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Race For The Net Part 1 – The Untold History of When African Americans Controlled the Internet and What Happens Now?
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Commentary: If you hear it enough | New Pittsburgh Courier
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Condoleezza Rice takes jab at liberals for assuming how Black people should think: 'Problem with the left'
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Blacks Urged To Participate In COVID-19 Clinical Trial
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