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For Spring Season, Young Athletes Get Back in the Game Despite Covid Risk

by lisadtinsley March 31, 2021

By Laura Ungar This spring, high school senior Nathan Kassis will play baseball in the shadow of covid-19 — wearing a neck gaiter under his catcher’s mask, sitting 6 feet from…

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Stop Blaming Tuskegee, Critics Say. It’s Not an ‘Excuse’ for Current Medical Racism

by lisadtinsley March 31, 2021

By April Dembosky, KQED For months, journalists, politicians and health officials — including New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Dr. Anthony Fauci — have invoked the infamous Tuskegee syphilis study to explain why Black Americans…

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Vaccine Hesitancy vs. Vaccine Refusal: Nursing Home Staffers Say There’s a Difference

by lisadtinsley March 25, 2021

By Aneri Pattani and Kaiser Health News CONCORD, N.C. — It had been months since Tremellia Hobbs had an excuse to bring out the pompoms. Before the pandemic, they were a…

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Hospital Bills for Uninsured COVID Patients Are Covered, but No One Tells Them

by lisadtinsley March 15, 2021

By Blake Farmer, Nashville Public Radio and Kaiser Health News   When Darius Settles died from COVID-19 on the Fourth of July, his family and the city of Nashville, Tennessee, were…

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Amidst 21st-Century Racial Strife, 20th-Century African American History At Risk of Being Lost Forever

by lisadtinsley January 26, 2021

America sits at a critically important crossroads. Racist ideology is on the rise and significant parts of 20th-century African American history and culture are at risk of being lost forever.…

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Black Hair Matters: How Going Natural Made Me Visible

by lisadtinsley January 24, 2021

By Cara Anthony The night before I chopped off my hair, I got nervous. This decision felt bigger than me, given all the weight that Black women’s hair carries. But…

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