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Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson Earns Prestigious Oersted Medal from American Association of Physics Teachers
by Lori Lakin Hutcherson (@lakinhutcherson) Next time you glance at your phone, see an unwelcome name, and send that unwanted call to voicemail, know physicist Shirley Ann Jackson is the one who ha…
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You Could Win Up To $50,000 For Your Small Business
The next chapter of your business story could be winning up to $50K. Enter the 2021 FedEx Small Business Grant Contest by March 9
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US life expectancy drops a year in pandemic, most since WWII - TSDMemphis.com
by Marilynn Marchione -  Life expectancy in the United States dropped a staggering one year during the first half of 2020 as the coronavirus pandemic caused its first wave of deaths, health officials are reporting. Minorities suffered the biggest impact, with Black Americans losing nearly three
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Covid-19 Live Updates: Big Storms Mean Big Vaccine Delays as Bad Weather Wallops the U.S.
… all, the death rate for Black Americans with Covid-19 was almost … drop in life expectancy for African-Americans from January through June of … they dropped for white and Black Americans. Rates of vaccination in Black …
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Sculpture Honors First Black President of an American college - Black Voice News
Lisa Rathke | Associated Press The first Black president of an American college is being honored with a sculpture installed in the Vermont city where he was born in 1826. The larger-than-life marble bust of Martin Henry Freeman, a scholar, sits on a stack of books in a downtown sq
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OPINION: When the ‘F’ Word and the ‘N’ Word Meant the Same Thing: Filipino | Post News Group
The insurrectos are very different from the insurrectionists you’ve been hearing about in the news recently. The rioters who attacked Capitol Hill on January 6, were dubbed “insurrectionists” because they were urged to fight and pillage the Capitol based on former Pres. Donald Trump’s lies of
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Rep. Clyburn on why broadband is crucial to America's COVID-19 recovery
No date has been set for President Joe Biden to address the joint session of Congress. The address will mark... View Article The post Rep. Clyburn explains why broadband is crucial to America's COVID-19 recovery appeared first on TheGrio.
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Newswire :Chocolate multinationals charged with complicity in Mali’s child slavery ring
Feb. 15, 2021 (GIN) – A federal class action suit filed on behalf of eight Malian citizens against Nestle SA, Cargill, Hershey and Mars, Inc. among others for their alleged complicity in the trafficking and forced labor of African children, is now under review by the U.S. Supreme Court.The
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2021 Toyota Corolla Apex – The Wilmington Journal
By Frank S. Washington DETROIT – Toyota has been trying to change its staid image into something a tad funky. Thus, it has developed the 2021Corolla Apex SE CVT which was a spunky little sedan. [...]
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Jay-Z Funds Minority-Owned Cannabis Businesses | Post News Group
Jay-Z, 51, told the Wall Street Journal: “It’s really unbelievable how that can happen.  We were the ones most negatively affected by the war on drugs and America has turned around and created a business from it that’s worth
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"The Nation is Not Divided": 10 Takeaways From Biden's Town Hall Event - African American News Today - EIN Presswire
Biden said that by the end of July, there will be enough COVID-19 vaccine available, enough to vaccinate every American.
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100 million Americans brace for more cold, ice and snow - TheGrio
Winter weather that has overwhelmed power grids unprepared for climate change and left millions without electricity in record-breaking cold kept... View Article The post 100 million Americans brace for more cold, ice and snow appeared first on TheGrio.
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Indigenous karate sisters create local history at maiden grading exercise - Stabroek News
Sisters Rose and Pauline Moses of Wowetta Village in the Rupununi region, have created local history by advancing from white to brown belt at their maiden grading exercise which was conducted on April 30, taking them a step closer to their goal of becoming instructors of the
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New visuals from Congo's Kiazi Malonga - Voice Online
WEST COAST Congolese sensation Kiazi Malonga has just released the video for his latest single... The post New visuals from Congo's Kiazi Malonga appeared first on Voice Online.
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San Fernando Valley doctors admit receiving more than $1 million in illegal cancer drugs | L.A. Focus News
Two San Fernando Valley physicians have agreed to plead guilty to federal charges alleging they obtained more than $1 million in illegal and potentially dangerous cancer drugs not approved for distribution in the United States. Dr. Stanley Rossman and Dr. Mark Goldstein, who operated Hematology
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Oprah Winfrey Will Have an 'Intimate Conversation' With Meghan Markle and Prince Harry on CBS in March - The New York Beacon
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry have been quite busy sinceleaving their royal postsin the United Kingdom back in January 2020. Whether it’s theirmultiyear Netflix deal, Harry’supcoming mental health serieson Apple TV+ or thenews of a second babyon the way—needless to say, they have a lot
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How a chemist is celebrating the beauty of melanin through her clothing brand - Face2Face Africa
The saying ‘Black is Beautiful’ has come to mean so many things to Blacks and in recent times, the message of loving one’s skin tone no matter the shade is resonating on social media. Regardless of the recent hype, colorism is real and chemist Deirdre Roberson is using her clothing brand to preach
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Coronavirus: Second vaccine dose delayed? How long you can wait may surprise you | L.A. Focus News
(CNN) — Some vaccine providers have been forced to cancel Covid-19 vaccine appointments due to the winter weather that has ravaged much of the US and caused delays in vaccine deliveries. That can be worrisome for people who were set to receive their second dose of the two-dose Covid-19
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Kelly Khumalo says her 'relationship with alcohol is doomed'
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Two Sanitation Workers Save a Kidnapped 10-Year-Old Girl
By Victor Omondi The family of a 10-year-old girl who'd been kidnapped has every reason to smile after two Louisiana sanitation workers saved their daughter. The girl had been abducted from a family member's residence in New Iberia. According to the New Iberia Police Department, Jalisa Lasalle went
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Sunday Brew — May 31, 2020
If information which surfaced over last weekend that there could have been manipulation of Leon Bailey to openly criticise the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) is true, then it would be most
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Black man who owns 14 McDonald's restaurants sues fast food giant for racial discrimination - Face2Face Africa
A McDonald’s owner, who was once the fast food giant’s largest Black franchise operator in the United States, has filed a racial discrimination lawsuit against the company. Herb Washington, who is also a retired baseball player, alleges the popular fast-food company does not afford its Black owners
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May Pen Hospital gets sanitisation machine to help COVID fight
Konnex Limited, a Kingston-based telecommunications engineering company, donated a sanitisation machine valued at $850,000 to the May Pen Hospital on Monday. The machine is used for temperature checks, hand sanitising, and it can also conduct a...
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Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee leads U.S. Reparations Bill H.R. 40 | New York Carib News
Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee knows that there has never been another time in which she has garnered so much congressional support and public momentum for H.R. 40, the reparations legislation that focuses on truth, racial healing, and transformation.
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When Zuma met Cele: JZ jokes about 'arrest warrant' with Police Minister
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Wintery Weather blanketing US making rare dip to Gulf Coast – Dallas Post Tribune
By JAMIE STENGLE DALLAS (AP) — Snow and ice blanketed large swaths of the U.S. on Sunday, prompting canceled flights, making driving perilous and reaching into areas as far south as Texas’ Gulf Coast, where snow and sleet were expected overnight. “Typically, we just don’t have quite this much cold
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Black History Month Is a Good Excuse for Delving Into Our Art
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Some electricity restored in Texas, but water woes grow - DefenderNetwork.com
Power was restored to more homes and businesses Thursday in states hit by a deadly blast of winter that overwhelmed the electrical grid and left millions shivering in the cold this week. But the crisis was far from over in parts of the South, where many people still lacked safe dr
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Vaccinating Homeless Patients Against COVID-19: 'All Bets Are Off'
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