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Bill Introduced to Expand African Burial Ground National Monument in New York

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The African Burial Ground International Memorial Museum and Education Center Act was recently introduced to ensure that stories are the stories of free and enslaved Africans will be told in New York

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At the courts and polls, President Trump and his allies move to limit voting. The GOP cites fraud, but voting rights advocates see an old foe: voter suppression.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – The Jamaican Football Federation has confirmed it will carry out extensive COVID-19 testing of locally-based national players, before the squad leaves for next month’s international friendly doubleheader against Saudi Arabia.

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Colonel Washington’s health career began in 1954 as a medical aidman with the rank of private, and his active service ended the first time in 1987, as the Acting Chief Nurse of William Beaumont Army Medical Center with the rank of colonel. Washington earned a diploma in nursing from Freedmen’s Hospital School of Nursing, a […]

GENEVA/ZURICH,  (Reuters) - Health officials reviewing Gilead Science Inc’s remdesivir against COVID-19 should consider all evidence, including a trial in which the medicine failed, before giving it the green light, the top WHO scientist said yesterday.

The article WHO: Nations mulling Gilead’s COVID drug should consider trial flop, too appeared first on Stabroek News.

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The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) Wednesday, October 14, 2020 announced that more than 100 Confederate symbols have been removed since May 26, 2020 — the start of the protests following the police killing of George Floyd. The Whose Heritage? report’s data and map track public symbols of the Confederacy across the United States. Since... [Read More]

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SPECIAL TO THE FLORIDA COURIER JACKSONVILLE - Florida’s largest nonprofit scholarship administrator has awarded its 1 millionth education choice scholarship, fueled by growing numbers of Black and Hispanic parents. Step Up For Students, the nonprofit that administers five of the state’s six K-12 scholarship programs, awarded its 1 millionth scholarship this fall. Founded in 2002, […]

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Going once, going twice-the winners of this year's Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences are two Stanford economists whose work lets the world make mobile phone calls, switch on a light, and buy and sell on [...]

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