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Opinion: I'm a middle-aged Black father. I want to ask White teen males this question

I am a middle-aged African American father, reeling from the sheer horror of what happened to members of my community in Buffalo. Through my pain, I am praying for all the victims and their traumatized families, friends and neighbors -- and for all the minority Americans who are feeling even more afraid now than they did before.

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The Black birdwatcher who recorded a viral clash with a White woman in New York's Central Park will host his own National Geographic show

Birdwatcher Christian Cooper was thrust into the spotlight in 2020 when he filmed a racially charged encounter with a White woman in New York's Central Park. Next year he'll be back on television on his own terms: To showcase his passion for birdwatching on National Geographic.

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Atlanta school under federal investigation after allegations principal assigned Black students to classes based on race

The Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights has launched an investigation into an Atlanta public elementary school after allegations the principal was assigning Black students to certain classes.

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Atlanta school under federal investigation after allegations principal assigned Black students to classes based on race

The Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights has launched an investigation into an Atlanta public elementary school after allegations the principal was assigning Black students to certain classes.

Casting Black actors in period pieces isn’t diversity. It’s history.

There is a moment in “The Harder They Fall” that director Jeymes Samuel can’t stop smiling about. It arrives with a locomotive around the end of Act 1 and subsequently barrels through every preconceived notion of what a western is supposed to be.

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Lovell’s Food For Thought: The Failure to Truly Address Health Inequities in America

"If you always do what you've always done, you will always get what you always gotten."

I often use a quote by Mom’s Mabely. It states the following: "If you always do what you've always done, you will always get what you always gotten." The science of the Twentieth and now the 21st Century, as it pertains to addressing the health of all Americans, will continue to not work if we continue to highlight discoveries without focusing on the delivery and involving the community, especially communities of color at every stage of the process. If we continue to use the same criteria as we did in this century we will be reading similar editorials from the AMA in the next decade. The signs have been there for more than three decades now, telling us that what we are doing is not working. The question now is: What are we going to do about it? Are we going to continue along the same path? Or, are we going to try something different, realizing that health along with not solve problem of health disparities? This opinion piece and the recent article in the American Journal of Public Health says we have yet to realize this truth (https://ajph.aphapublications.org/toc/ajph/109/S1). Having been at this for almost four decades, will I see a similar special edition in by five decade?

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It will cost more to see Caitlin Clark game than men’s Final Four

Caitlin Clark’s popularity is jacking up ticket prices for the women’s NCAA basketball Final Four on Friday, making them even more expensive than the men’s.

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Masters start delayed amid bad weather at Augusta National

The start to The Masters has been delayed and patrons will be admitted to the first major of the calendar later than expected due to bad weather at Augusta National, organizers said.

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‘Road House’ bounces along on a wave of nostalgia in updating a guilty pleasure

The original “Road House” has long been the guiltiest of pleasures, a movie that seems to be in a perpetual loop on cable, with Patrick Swayze as the philosopher-bouncer immortalizing lines like “Pain don’t hurt.” A 35-years-later update brings some of that allure to Amazon, with Jake Gyllenhaal as the reluctant warrior toting a bit more baggage, in a film that’s equal parts entertaining, silly and wildly violent (not always in that order).

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Gender-affirming surgery threatens ‘unique dignity’ of a person, Vatican says

The Vatican has issued a strong warning against “gender theory” and said that any gender-affirming surgery risks threatening “the unique dignity” of a person, in a new document signed off and approved by Pope Francis.

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Statement by Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee on the White Supremacist Terror Attack in Charlottesville Virginia

Jackson Lee: “Bigotry and hate has no place in America. Too many Americans of all races and religions have bled and died to bring about an America that lives up to those words in the Declaration of Independence – We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

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Baltimore Removes Confederate Statues

Baltimore removed at least two Confederate statues early Wednesday after a white nationalist rally to protect monuments turned deadly over the weekend in Virginia.

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Trump signs bill to avoid government shutdown

President Donald Trump on Friday signed a massive spending package that funds a large section of government and averts a shutdown, a White House aide confirmed.

As Trial for the Murder of 2nd Lt. Richard Collins III Begins, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Calls for Action

In May 2017, 2nd Lt. Richard Collins III was murdered in an alleged hate crime at a bus stop outside of the University of Maryland's campus by an individual with ties to a white supremacist group, Alt-Reich. The defendant’s evidence of racial animus will be a critical focal point during the prosecution. 2nd Lt. Collins died days before his graduation from Bowie State University.

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Yes, There Is A White Tupac Shakur And He Got Arrested In Tennessee

Yes, Tupac Shakur is making headlines again. And right about now, your brain is not sure what to do with the info your eyes just sent it regarding our headline and photo.

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It is Dangerous For Trump to Undermine Iran Nuclear Deal Which Threatens to Destabilize the World

Jackson Lee: “It is reckless and wrong-minded for the White House to stoke the flames of global instability by arbitrarily walking away from the Iran Nuclear Deal.”

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Texas Church Turned Into a Memorial After Mass Shooting

The same day that the First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs held its first service since a gunman opened fire on parishioners last week, killing 25 people and an unborn child, residents and visitors got to see how the church had been turned into a memorial.

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Texas Democrats On The Biden Administration Securing Three New Mass Vaccination Sites In Texas

The Biden White House announced that they are partnering with the state of Texas to open three new mass vaccination sites to vaccinate up to 10,000 Texans in underserved communities per day.

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Jason David Frank, Power Rangers actor, dies at 49

Actor Jason David Frank, best known for starring in the original "Mighty Morphin Power Rangers" TV franchise, has died, according to multiple reports citing his representative.

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Documented Gang Member Sentenced to 40 Years in Prison for 2020 Murder

A member of one of Houston’s most infamous street gangs, the 52 Hoover Crips, was sentenced to 40 years in prison for shooting a neighbor in 2020, Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg announced.