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Red Cross harnesses power of artistic activism — known as artivism — to show how blood donors help in the fight against sickle cell WASHINGTON, June 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Celebrated artist Nikkolas Smith revealed
CANBERRA/GENEVA (21 December 2022) – Africans and people of African descent are exposed to multi-faceted forms of racial discrimination, xenophobia and systemic racism in all spheres of predominantly ‘white’ Australia, says Catherine Namakula, Chair of the Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent. Ending a 10-day official visit to the country, the experts […]
Biologists in Southern California believe they have found the only bear to currently live in the Santa Monica Mountains, according to the National Parks Service. Biologists captured and radio-collared a 210-pound black bear in a natural area of the western Santa Monica Mountains, south of the U.S. Highway 101, on April 23, the National Parks […]
Herbert “Herb” Douglas Jr., the oldest living U.S. Olympic medalist and a University of Pittsburgh sports icon, died Saturday. He was 101.Douglas was the first Black basketball player at Pittsburgh’s Allderdice High School. He was also among Pitt’s first Black football players. He won a bronze medal in the long jump at the 1948 London […]
SPRINGFIELD — They brought scaffolds and paint, but the improvements this squad had in mind were new to Springfield’s Winchester Square. As work on a bright and bold mural progressed, people from the neighborhood, now known as Mason Square, stopped by. A child named Marcus was a regular. “We had a little show going on,” […]
Social media has a way of creating an allure, a certain aesthetic and with the right soundtrack it can make anyone feel as if they, too, can live their best lives. People are hungry for curating a life they no longer need a vacation from. To that end, many are voluntarily leaving the United States […]
Washington (March 9, 2023) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Representative Jesús G. “Chuy” García (IL-04) today joined union leaders and airport service workers to announce the reintroduction of the Good Jobs for Good Airports Act, legislation to provide airport service workers — a predominantly Black, Brown, and immigrant workforce — with the wage and […]
Children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) living in US-Mexico border regions in Texas were more likely to die within 5 years compared with children living in other parts of the state based on data from the Texas Cancer Registry, a study published in Cancer found.1 The US-Mexico border is known to be medically underserved, and survival […]
In Maine, the number of nursing home beds is declining even as the state’s population grows older and medical needs continue to rise. Assisted living facilities have expanded their presence across the state, attempting to meet the demand. The Maine Monitor and ProPublica would like your help in reporting on how well these facilities are […]
‘Living legends.’ Florida man, 101, to be honored for service as a first Black U.S. Marine Miami Herald Source link