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Health + Tech | Technology and its impact on sleep

We’ve always heard about how important it is to have a good night’s sleep to allow the body, especially our brain, to rest. Sleep has a lot to do with how healthy we are. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), “Good quality sleep is...

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The tragic way in which George Floyd was murdered has conjured up so many past and recent memories of Black people that have fallen victim to homegrown, domestic terrorism, at the hands of members of law enforcement or those who just simply despise Black

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Rayshard Brooks struggled in system but didn’t hide his past

About five months before he was killed by Atlanta police in a Wendy’s parking lot — before his name and case would become the latest rallying point in a massive call for racial justice and equality nationwide — Brooks gave an interview to an advocacy group about his years of struggle in the

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Black women need to be free

Although the dominant narrative suggests men, more than women, have been more affected by COVID-19 and police brutality, Black women shouldn’t be erased in time, especially if we all want to get

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Louis Armstrong - Death

Still hoping to get back on the road, Armstrong died of a heart attack in his sleep on July 6, 1971, a month before his 70th birthday.

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How to Talk with Young Children about the George Floyd Protests

The recent protests sparked by the death of George Floyd (as well as Breonna Taylor and many other people of color) have affected families with young children in many different

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Nina Simone - Death

She had suffered from breast cancer for several years before she died in her sleep at her home in Carry-le-Rouet, Bouches-du-Rhône on April 21, 2003.

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Coronavirus Update: Pandemic to ‘Spread Like a Forest Fire’ in the Summer and Fall, Says Expert

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Filmmaker Julian Marshall Documents Intensity Of NYC Protests

While protests erupted from coast to coast, seasoned New York City filmmaker Julian Marshall, was devising a plan on how to take his Blackmagic Pocket 4K camera and capture the events unfolding in one of the epicenters of the daily Black Lives Matter movements and nightly blazing

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Nigeria: COVID-19 - Self-Medication Worsening Our Problems - Patients

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While hundreds of truckers have tested positive for the virus in recent weeks, the drivers say they are being stigmatized and treated like criminals, being detained by governments and slowing cargo traffic to

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Devastating effects of Covid-19 on thousands Street Kids in Zimbabwe: Edith Chibhamu.

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Radio Talk Show Co-Host Ken Gordon Survived Heartbreak, Deception and Politics

Being called to provide leadership and a voice is nothing new for Ken Gordon, co-host of the “Commitments with Ken + Leslie” radio talk show, along with his

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? William Henry Crogman, a native of the West Indian island of St. Martin, was educated at Pierce Academy in Massachusetts immediately after the Civil War. In 1868 he was named to the English faculty of newly organized Claflin College in South Carolina. By 1870 Crogman returned to college, ente

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I Can’t Breathe: A diagnostic criteria of being black in America

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Bubba Wallace: ‘Somebody tied a noose’ –

Wallace was referring to comments on social media that arose after NASCAR announced Tuesday that an FBI investigation determined the noose found in Wallace’s car garage at Talladega was not a hate crime targeted at the only Black driver in the sport’s top

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Anti-racism protesters rally around world, topple statue

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'We're sick of it': Anger over police killings shatters US

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August Alsina Says He Was Involved With Jada, She Denied It And We Have Questions

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Rare 'ring of fire' solar eclipse to dim Africa, Asia

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Famous Gay People of Color

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