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Dr. Colin McCord, a surgeon credited with saving countless lives by championing a draconian ban on smoking in New York City and limits on trans fats in processed foods, galvanizing improved health care for Black men in Harlem, and improving maternal and child health globally, died on March 11 at his home in Oxford, England. […]
Uganda’s parliament is set to debate a new anti-gay bill next week, as the country’s president called for a “medical opinion” on the deviancy of homosexuals. The bill, besides criminalizing homosexuality, also criminalizes the “promotion” and “abetting” of homosexuality and follows a January parliamentary investigation into an alleged promotion of homosexuality in schools. It’s no […]
Tembisa, South Africa(CNN) Fourteen-year-old Philasande Dayimani carries a burden that no child should carry. Last year, she started getting sores in her mouth and struggled to breathe. She says a clinic doctor told her to test for HIV. “It wasn’t easy for me to accept. Many people cry when they hear about their status. I […]
(Hailshadow/Getty Images Plus) The Black Death that ravaged Eurasia and North Africa in the 14th century had a profound effect on our balance of genes, one that according to a new study is still deciding our fate today. Those effects are a mix of good and bad news. While the genetic variations that helped our […]
PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) — From activists to entertainers to record-breaking athletes to a postal worker, 6abc shines a spotlight on the contributions of 29 influential African Americans in Philadelphia and beyond as we celebrate Black History Month. Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander | Writer | 1898-1989 A native Philadelphian, Alexander was the first Black woman to receive […]
“The Navy’s population not only helps human health, but we’re also translating everything that we learned from this wonderful population to help better conserve dolphins that live in the wild,” says Forrest Gomez, director of Conservation Medicine, National Marine Mammal Foundation. Photo by Shutterstock. Since 1959, the Navy has used marine mammals in aquatic missions […]
Navy-trained dolphins helped serve the US. What can they now … KCRW Source link
Colinford Mattis arrives at federal court in Brooklyn on Thursday. (Mary Altaffer/AP) BROOKLYN — In a dramatic hearing on Thursday, a federal judge sentenced a corporate attorney who firebombed a police car during the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests to a year in jail, arguing that his prestigious education — boarding school, Princeton, a law […]
The problem, says Santos, is that often platforms do not appreciate the potential impact of “anti-democratic” content. “They’ll take down content that incites violence,” she says. “But when people are calling for a military intervention, for example, they do not clearly associate military intervention with violence.” While every expert who spoke to WIRED noted that […]
In the 1900s, an Afro-Cuban skilled worker named Eleno Lino was on the