Homer G. Phillips Nurses Alumni to be honored on Feb. 1

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Source: Houston Forward Times - Reporting The Truth | Affecting Change | Moving Forward

NDEMO: What is Africa’s future after pandemic?

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Howard University (HU or simply Howard) is a federally chartered, private, coeducational, nonsectarian, historically black university (HBCU) in Washington, D.C. It is recognized by the Carnegie Foundation as a research university with high research activity and is accredited by the Middle States

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Fight On! Atlanta’s ZuCot Gallery Showcases New Book Singing the History of African American Spirituals

/EIN News/ -- ATLANTA, June 23, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ZuCot Gallery, one of the nation’s premier galleries highlighting the works of acclaimed African-American artists, is celebrating the release of the new book, Fight On, which visually expresses the story of the African American spirituals

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Source: African Americans News Monitoring Service & Press Release Distribution - EIN News

Olive Schreiner

Olive Schreiner , in full Olive Emilie Albertina Schreiner, pseudonym Ralph Iron (born March 24, 1855, Wittebergen, Cape Colony [now in South Africa]—died Dec. 11, 1920, Cape Town, S.Af.), writer who produced the first great South African novel, The Story of an African Farm (1883). She had

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Prescription for Excellence

In March, Dr. Cynthia Kudji Sylvester, and Dr. Jasmine Kudji made headlines for becoming “the first mother and daughter to attend medical school at the same time and match at the same institution,” according to Kudji Sylvester’s Medical

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Source: New Orleans Data News Weekly – The People’s Paper

(2000) Harold Ford, “Keynote Address at the Democratic National Convention"

In 2000 at the National Democratic Convention in Los Angeles where Vice President Al Gore, Jr., won the Democratic Nomination for President, fellow Tennessean, Congressman Harold Ford of Memphis, gave the Keynote Address. That address appears

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Source: Black Past

Burundi: Nkurunziza Leaves a Mixed Legacy

Burundi President Pierre Nkurunziza, who died of a heart attack aged 55 according to an official statement released on Tuesday, has left behind a mixed

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Source: allAfrica.com

Black Doctors Say Pandemic Reveals Enduring Racial Inequity Medicine Alone Cannot Fix

Tyrone Turner/WAMU

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Source: Stories About Black History

Healthier Food in our Churches

Evidenced-based research indicates some health conditions like Diabetes Type 2, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, heart disease, and obesity make African Americans more susceptible to COVID-19 and are

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Source: The Christian Recorder

AP FACT CHECK: Faulty Trump claims on virus drug, vote fraud | The Atlanta Voice

So it was this past week when he took very personally a scientific study that should give pause to anyone thinking of following Trump’s lead and ingesting a potentially risky drug for the

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Source: The Atlanta Voice

American virus deaths at 100,000: What does a number mean? | The Atlanta Voice

Facing such massive death and challenges counting the dead, Americans started to realize that numbers and statistics represented more than knowledge; they contained power, according to historian Drew Gilpin

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Source: The Atlanta Voice

HUGS Free Vitual Healing with Telehealth Sessions | Afro

There are extra demands on our medical profession, and Dr. Eugenia Agard DBH, LMHC, owner and operator of a comprehensive clinical mental health private practice entitled HUGS (Healing Understanding Guiding and Supportive Services) has made a commitment to help frontline providers with Free Vitual

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority

Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms announces 5-phase plan to reopen Atlanta

ATLANTA—Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms announced the City’s five-phased reopening plan, drawn from the recommendations of the Mayor’s Advisory Council for Reopening

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Source: Atlanta Tribune

Watkins, Dr. Levi, Jr. (1944-2015)

Dr. Levi Watkins, Jr. was a cardiac surgeon who, in 1980, performed the first implantation of an automatic defibrillator into a human heart. He was also a professor of cardiac surgery and associate dean at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in

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Uganda's Reputation has Grown - Museveni

He said the ‘Real Economy’ is the economy that deals with the nine basic human needs of food, clothing, shelter, medicine, security, physical infrastructure (the railways, the roads, the electricity, the telephones), health infrastructure (hospitals etc.), the education infrastructure

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Source: allAfrica.com

Ivory Trade in Africa

Ivory has been desired since antiquity because its relative softness made it easy to carve into intricate decorative items for the very wealthy. For the past one hundred years, the ivory trade in Africa has been closely regulated, yet the trade continues to

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Source: ThoughtCo

Chad takes delivery of Madagascar virus cure, COVID-Organics

May 10: Chad sends official jet to collect ‘virus

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Source: Africanews | Latest breaking news, daily news and African news from Africa

Key African American Women in Sports

Venus Williams (born 1980) and Serena Williams (1981) are sisters who have dominated the sport of womens tennis. Together they have won 22 Grand Slam titles as singles. They competed against each other in the Grand Slam finals eight times between 2001 and 2009. Each has won an Olympic gold

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Source: ThoughtCo

Jefferson County (Ala.) to require face coverings in most public spaces

Jefferson County will require face coverings in most indoor public places beginning at 5 p.m. June 29 and lasting until the county health officer deems public safety no longer requires it in the fight against

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Source: The Birmingham Times

Africa: Low-cost Dexamethasone Reduces Death by Up to One Third in Hospitalised Patients with Severe Respiratory Complications of COVID-19

Statement from the Chief Investigators of the Randomised Evaluation of COVid-19 thERapY (RECOVERY) Trial on hydroxychloroquine, 16 June 2020

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Source: allAfrica.com

Bill Banning Police From Using Deadly “Sleeper Hold” Introduced in California Assembly

By Antonio Ray Harvey, California Black Media

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Source: Observer News Group – Group Newspapers of Southern California

Africa Asked to Reverse Effects of COVID-019 On Continent

The most efficient way for Africa to reverse the effects of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) and prepare for any future pandemic is to assert its independence in economic, scientific and political terms, Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration Minister, Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, has

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Source: allAfrica.com

Gov. Whitmer Order Salons, Barber and Nail Shops To Open June 15th Statewide

Starting on June 10, Regions 6 and 8 — which include much of northern Michigan and all of the Upper Peninsula — will advance to Phase 5 of the governor’s MI Safe Start

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WATIMA: Will Africa access Covid-19 vaccine easily?

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Shooting of Michael Brown

For the protests that followed the shooting of Michael Brown, see Ferguson

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NIH study links cigarette smoking to higher stroke risk in African Americans

Smoking cessation could be a path to fewer strokes, researchers say

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Busy ER Physician Describes What you Should be Doing at Home to Help Your Immune System be Super Vigilant

Emergency room and sports medicine physician Ara Suppiah, MD (affectionately known as Dr. Ara) says there are ways that you might help keep your immune system healthy and prepared to do its

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Source: The Madison Times Weekly Newspaper

ASK DR. KEVIN: An Unfamiliar, Rare Disease Associated with Heart Failure in African Americans

By Dr. Kevin Williams, the Chief Medical Officer for Rare Disease at Pfizer

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Source: Milwaukee Community Journal - Wisconsin's Largest African American Newspaper

Women Work Longer, Sleep Less Due to Covid-19

“The COVID 19 pandemic has aggravated the existing conditions for women, who are discriminated against in all sectors,” said Dr. Beatrice Duncan, Policy Advisor, Rule of Law, UN Women, at a May 22 briefing organized by Ethnic Media

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