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During the Jim Crow era, the Black soldiers of the 24th Infantry Regiment were continuously harassed by racist police and white locals while stationed at Camp Logan, a military training camp in Houston. On August 23, 1917, Corporal Charles Baltimore was beaten and shot by police after interfering in the arrest of a Black woman. […]
ORLANDO, Florida — An Olympic Trials with the fastest collection of American women in history was won by a runner who had never before raced a marathon. Fiona O’Keeffe became the first woman to win the U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials in her debut at the distance on Saturday. O’Keeffe, 25, pulled away from the lead […]
ORLANDO, Fla. — Fiona O’Keeffe smashed the women’s U.S. Olympic marathon trials record in her debut at the distance on a warm Saturday to secure her spot in the Paris Games. O’Keeffe finished in a time of 2 hours, 22 minutes, 10 seconds to break the American marathon trials mark of 2:25:38 set by Shalane […]
In back-to-back matches, the U.S.’ most recent Olympic and world champions in taekwondo were eliminated from Paris Olympic team contention on Friday. At the Olympic Trials in Charlotte, Kristina Teachout prevailed over Anastasija Zolotic, who in Tokyo became the second American, and first American woman, to win Olympic taekwondo gold. Teachout, 18, rallied after losing […]
The Lupus Foundation of America (LFA) announced today it has been awarded a three-year grant with up to $500,000 in funding per year from the Office of Minority Health (OMH) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to increase participation in lupus clinical trials. The grant builds on the previous success of a […]
WASHINGTON, Dec. 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — The Lupus Foundation of America (LFA) announced today it has been awarded a three-year grant with up to $500,000 in funding per year from the Office of Minority Health (OMH) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to increase participation in lupus clinical trials. The grant builds […]
Eugene, Oregon, will host the U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials for a fifth consecutive time in 2024. The meet, where the top three finishers in most events qualify for the Olympic team, will be June 21-30 at Hayward Field at the University of Oregon. That completes a busy slate of Olympic Trials in June […]
The clerks were on strike in the Nanterre courthouse, so the accused burglars, homeless thieves and domestic abusers had to wait. It was 5 p.m. by the time Yanis Linize was ushered into the courtroom, a few blocks from the traffic circle where young Nahel Merzouk was shot by a policeman just a week ago, […]
Karen Peterson followed her doctor’s treatment directions to the letter: After her Stage I triple-negative breast cancer was diagnosed in 2015, she had four rounds of chemotherapy and a double mastectomy. Two years . . .
(Adds details, background) BENGALURU, May 2 (Reuters) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has asked India’s Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd to halt tests on one dose of an experimental dermatological drug due to the potential of blood clots, the company said on Tuesday. The FDA has also said that patients with alopecia areata […]