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One of two men convicted in the killing of James Jordan,father of basketball legend Michael Jordan, is expected to be released from prison in three years. Larry M. Demery, 44, was granted a 2023 parole date via the Mutual Agreement Parole Program (MAPP), a scholastic and vocational
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Put away fear of COVID vaccination - The Bay State Banner
African Americans are far more likely to get sick, get hospitalized, and to die from a COVID triggered malady than whites. Yet, side by side with the death count, more Blacks than any other group say they won’t get a COVID
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Commentary: If you hear it enough | New Pittsburgh Courier
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Dr. Mayme Clayton was born in Arkansas and transplanted to California, where she served as law librarian at University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), beginning in 1957. In 1969 she helped put together the university’s African American Studies Center Library. But her most astounding
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Georgia Infirmary (1832 - )
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