July 2024 Archive

Angry patients spur new state watchdogs to bring down drug prices
By Anna Claire Vollers Contributing Writer (Stateline.org) — Spurred by fed-up consumers, states are trying to curb spiraling prescription drug costs by assembling special public boards to investigate and regulate pricing.
US Navy exonerates Black WWII sailors convicted after Port Chicago explosion
By Stacy M. Brown Contributing Writer (NNPA Newswire) — The U.S. Navy has exonerated 256 Black sailors wrongfully convicted after the catastrophic 1944 Port Chicago explosion. The move marks a significant ...
What if Thomas Matthew Crooks had been a Black man?
By Hazel Trice Edney Editor-in-chief, Trice Edney News Wire Can you imagine what would have happened to a Black man who showed up at a Donald Trump rally acting “suspiciously” around ...
My ‘Black job’ is to protect democracy
By Keith Boykin Word In Black Contributor I’m not doing this again with y’all. While Democrats debate how to respond to Joe Biden’s debate performance, Trump and the Republicans are plotting to erase ...
The 900-page guide to snuffing out American democracy
By Ben Jealous TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist What if there was a blueprint for a future presidential administration to unilaterally lay waste to our constitutional order and turn America from a democracy into an ...
It’s time to take the blinders off
Voting is your right. Conventional wisdom suggests that things rarely stay the same – they either get better or they get worse. While there are many facts that ...
‘Robbed’ Kennedy High School grads get their day in court
By Marta Jewson The Lens On last Wednesday, Judge Marissa Hutabarat of Orleans Parish Civil District Court agreed that John F. Kennedy High School grads of 2019 and 2020 had enough in ...
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Big Pharma’s Monopoly On Ozempic Threatens Access To Diabetes Drug In Communities Of Color
// By Andre Johnson Black Americans suffer from obesity at disproportionate rates, but the popular weight-loss drug Ozempic isn’t available in many inner-city neighborhoods. An obscure industry — compounding pharmacies — have ...
US Cities Vie For Rugby World Cup Hosting Rights In Historic North American Debut‌ ‌
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Civil rights pioneer Tessie Prevost dies
By Fritz Esker Contributing Writer Tessie Prevost, one of the first Black students to integrate McDonough 19 Elementary School in New Orleans in 1960, passed away over the 4th of July ...

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