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Short Story Anthology 'The Black Girl Survives in This One' Challenges the Horror Canon

Survival is the thread connecting Black women and the horror genre.

The anthology offers diverse horror stories featuring Black female protagonists. [ more ]

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3 weeks ago

Beyonce Is Boldly Defying Country's Stereotypes

The term 'Jezebel' has historical roots in misogyny and slut-shaming.

Black women have been fighting stereotypes and challenging societal norms for generations. [ more ]

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Black Britons fear for Diane Abbott after millionaire's call for violence

Black women in politics face racism and sexism.

Diane Abbott has faced racist abuse in her political career. [ more ]

Axios

Black women still facing economic barriers

Nearly 31% of Black women working full-time have a side hustle, only half have retirement savings, 49% own homes, 58% support extended family financially.

Black women face systemic barriers to generational wealth, including high student debt compared to the general U.S. adult population.

Goldman's initiative aims to impact 1 million Black women with $10 billion in investment capital and $100 million in philanthropic capital. [ more ]

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Music

Dissecting the Cowboy Carter' Cover: Beyonce's Yeehaw Agenda

Beyonce teases fans with new album cover featuring her on a horse in rodeo gear, signaling a shift to country music for her next solo album.

Beyonce aims to reshape images of Black women in cowboy history, celebrating their contribution to American culture. [ more ]

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Music

Five Kinds of Albums the Grammys Haven't Awarded Album of the Year in Over 20 Years

SZA had the most nominations at the Grammys but did not win Album of the Year

Black women have historically been overlooked for Album of the Year [ more ]

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London

Diane Abbott shown support by large crowds at rally in east London

Diane Abbott rallied supporters against racism following offensive remarks by a major Tory donor.

Supporters emphasized the need to address racism and support black women in public life. [ more ]

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Blow: Racial justice should include survivors of sexual violence

The intersection between racial justice and the fight against sexual violence is crucial.

Addressing issues that affect Black women, including sexual violence, is necessary for genuine democracy. [ more ]

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How the Fearless Fund Is Combatting Racial Inequity in Venture Capital

Black women continue to face disrespect, lack of protection, and neglect in America

Intersectional oppression of Black women must be acknowledged and addressed [ more ]

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5 months ago

"Complete Liberation": A Black Reproductive Justice Agenda - Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly

A new report from In Our Own Voice presents the 2023 National Black Reproductive Justice Policy Agenda.

The report aims to address the unequal access to healthcare and eroding reproductive rights faced by Black people, particularly Black women and girls. [ more ]

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Black women struggle to find their way in a job world where diversity is under attack

Creating spaces for Black women to support each other in corporate settings is crucial for addressing challenges like misogyny and isolation.

Leaders and all employees play a role in fostering a culture of inclusion in the workplace. [ more ]

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The Silent Epidemic Killing Black Women - Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly

Black women were six times more likely to be killed than White women in the same age group between 1999 and 2020.

Violence against Black women is often underreported. [ more ]

Axios

Black women six times more likely to be slain than white women: study

Black women in the U.S. are six times more likely to be murdered than white women.

The Midwest has the greatest regional inequity in homicide rates for Black women compared to white women. [ more ]

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Black and Latina women helped propel gains for unions in 2023, finds a new study

Labor victories in Hollywood and the auto industry are creating momentum for unionization at the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga.

Black and Latina women saw slight increases in union membership in 2023, indicating a step in the right direction for labor gains. [ more ]

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Yes, women have to work until March 14 to earn as much money as men did the previous year

Equal Pay Day, which raises awareness about the gender pay gap in the United States, falls on March 14 in 2023.Advocacy organizations say the day symbolizes how far into a new year a woman must work to earn what a man did in the previous year.VERIFY looked at the data to see how yearly pay compares between men and women.

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What is Equal Pay Day and what work still needs to be done?

AUSTIN, Texas March 14 is recognized as Equal Pay Day - a day to highlight the issues that relate to the gender wage gap.Equal Pay Day symbolizes how much longer it takes for women to make the same income as a man from the year before.After every number is compiled, it would take women two and a half months to catch up to the national average salary of men.

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Media industry

How Black women get their political news matters for this election

Black women primarily get news from television, with a majority not sharing their political views on social media.

Variations exist in how Black women consume political news, impacting outreach strategies for different demographics. [ more ]

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The trend of Black women using doulas to overcome maternal death rates

Black women are increasingly utilizing doulas to address healthcare disparities.

Doulas offer physical and emotional support before, during, and after childbirth. [ more ]

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3 months ago

Hearing a room full of Black women open up about sex and shame was electrifying | Jendella Benson

The Black Women and Undoing Sexual Shame event aimed to address the silence surrounding sex and sexuality in culturally conservative communities.

The workshop discussed the impact of Christian, Muslim, and Rastafari belief systems on purity culture and respectability politics. [ more ]

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5 months ago

As Black Women, We Will Reclaim Our Reproductive Autonomy. For Me, This Is Where It Starts.

Black women face disparities in awareness and access to fertility options compared to their white counterparts.

Egg freezing is often seen as a luxury that Black women may not have access to due to financial and emotional reasons. [ more ]

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Black Women Leaders Are Powering Philanthropy - Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly

Black women are essential in modern philanthropy, although they are often overlooked.

Portraits of Us book highlights 200 Black women in philanthropy and their significant contributions. [ more ]

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New Coloring Book Seeks to Help Black Women Care for and Make Time for Themselves - Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly

Oludara Adeeyo released a self-care coloring book for Black women to encourage them to prioritize their own needs.

The book includes affirmations and aims to provide representation for Black women in the coloring book space. [ more ]

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Hulu's 'The Other Black Girl' sparks important conversations

The Other Black Girl on Hulu has sparked conversations about representation and identity in the workplace.

Sinclair Daniel, who plays Nella in the show, relates to her character's journey of discovering her Black identity in a predominantly white environment. [ more ]

Time Out New York

Books

Inside the revolutionary Free Black Women's Library in Brooklyn

Plus, 10 book recommendations to add to your reading list.Olaronke Akinmowo considers herself a "book fairy," an accurate title for someone who can turn 100 books into a collection of more than 5,000 in just eight years.She's the creator of The Free Black Women's Library, a new free library in Brooklyn's Bed-Stuy neighborhood, which also serves as a social art project, a reading room, a co-working space and a community gathering center.

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DevOps

Women's History Month at New Relic

Despite years of working for equality, women are still disproportionately limited in access to opportunities for career development and leadership.At New Relic, equity is going beyond supporting equal efforts for all.We're concentrating on the resources and actions needed to yield equal outcomes in the workplace and career journeys.

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An HBCU alumna has become Vanderbilt's first Black woman neurosurgery resident

After close to a century, Vanderbilt University's neurosurgery residency program will have its first Black woman resident.Tamia Potter is the first Black woman to accept a spot in the neurosurgery position at the university's medical center in Nashville, Tennessee.The 26-year-old received the news on March 17 better known to medical students as National Match Day, when thousands of graduate medical students learn where they will do their residency training for the next several years.

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Digital life

When Love and the Algorithm Don't Mix

Dating app algorithms often perpetuate racial biases and stereotypes.

Online dating as a black woman is a unique and complex experience. [ more ]

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How a Law School Student at N.Y.U. Spends Her Sundays

Talia Scott is a dual-degree graduate student at NYU, attending both its business and law schools.

Scott founded the Legally BLK Fund, a nonprofit that helps Black women with fees for law school and provides access to consulting services and mentorships. [ more ]

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How a Law School Student at N.Y.U. Spends Her Sundays

Talia Scott is a dual-degree graduate student at NYU's business and law schools.

She founded a nonprofit called the Legally BLK Fund to support Black women in law school. [ more ]

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Apollo Theater Names New President

Michelle Ebanks, who most recently served as the president of Essence Communications, the global media and communications company dedicated to Black women, will be the next president and chief executive of the Apollo Theater in Harlem, the organization announced on Tuesday.I have a deep understanding of the value of cultural institutions and their profound impact on individual lives and society, and the Apollo Theater as one of the nation's greatest cultural institutions, Ebanks said in an interview on Monday.

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Governor's Wife Denied Trooper a Room to Pump Breast Milk, Suit Charges

Tammy Murphy, the first lady of New Jersey, has made infant and maternal health her signature cause during her husband's tenure as governor.She led the push for free nurse visits for newborns and expanded access to doulas during labor, with a goal of improving New Jersey's abysmal pregnancy-related death rates.

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Covid Worsened a Health Crisis Among Pregnant Women

KOKOMO, Ind. Tammy Cunningham doesn't remember the birth of her son.She was not quite seven months pregnant when she became acutely ill with Covid-19 in May 2021.By the time she was taken by helicopter to an Indianapolis hospital, she was coughing and gasping for breath.The baby was not due for another 11 weeks, but Ms. Cunningham's lungs were failing.

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3 months ago

Black Women Support the Democratic Party, But Does the Party Support Them?

Black women face numerous inequities despite being dedicated voters in the Democratic Party

There is concern that the current administration has not done enough to deliver a United States that works for all [ more ]

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Death of Track Star Tori Bowie Refocuses Nation on Black Maternal Health Crisis

Image Credit: Reuters/Matthew Childs (photo right)
Olympic track star Tori Bowie was eight months pregnant and in labor when she died on May 2, according to an autopsy.She was alone in her home at the time and may have suffered from respiratory distress and eclampsia, a rare but life-threatening pregnancy complication.

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Sanders Denounces Morality of System Where 3 Are Richer Than 165 Million People

Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks during a rally at the ILA Hall in Charleston, South Carolina, on June 3, 2023.Screenshot: Union of Southern Service Workers via Twitter As President Joe Biden signed into law an agreement Saturday that would shield wealthy tax cheats from stronger IRS enforcement while at the same time enacting cuts to key anti-poverty programs, Senator Bernie Sanders and other progressive allies were busy denouncing the immoral, low-wage economic system in the United States in which just a small handful of mega-billionaires have accumulated more wealth than tens of millions of hard-working but low-paid workers and their families.

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3 months ago

Brooklyn

Study Shows Intimate Partner Homicides Increased 255% in Brooklyn

Intimate partner violence in New York City has surged by 29.1% between 2021 and 2022, with a 225% increase in Brooklyn alone.

The increase in domestic violence is attributed to long-standing disinvestment in services for survivors, disproportionately impacting Black and Hispanic women from marginalized communities. [ more ]

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Public health

Maternity Group Care for and by Black People Is Improving Outcomes in Oakland | KQED

BElovedBIRTH Black Centering provides group perinatal and postnatal care for Black people from an all-Black health care team.

The program aims to address the high rates of pregnancy-related deaths and complications affecting Black women. [ more ]

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Public health

Opinion: The overlooked reason reparations make sense in California

Californians are weighing in publicly on the idea of reparations to Black Americans, with the state's Reparations Task Force set to report their recommendations by July 1.This initiative builds on smaller-scale efforts, such as in my hometown of Evanston, Ill., which in 2021 became the first U.S. city to promise limited financial reparations for slavery and city-sanctioned discriminatory housing policies.

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Career

When Black Women Rise: A Conversation with LaTresse Snead - Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly

LaTresse Snead offers insight and advice for Black women striving to become industry leaders in her new book.

The book focuses on the challenges and opportunities Black women may encounter in their journey to leadership, offering advice on navigating hostile environments.

Snead emphasizes the importance of diversity, equity, and inclusion in the nonprofit sector and discusses its progress following the murder of George Floyd. [ more ]

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Washington DC

45 Things to Do in the DC Area This Week

Happy weekend, everyone!Enjoy the long Juneteenth weekend with a number of celebrations around town including block parties, a Frederick Douglass exhibit, and a tribute to Marvin Gaye.You can also experience two festivals in one event at Portside in Old Town.Best Things to Do This Weekend
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Portside in Old Town Summer Festival.

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10 Great Things to Do in DC This May

When Julie Kent and Victor Barbee's take on Tchaikovsky's ballet debuted in 2019, reviews were rapturous and tickets were scarce.Now comes another chance to see it-just as Kent has headed out the door for a new gig in Houston.George Washington University Museum and Textile Museum | May 6 - November 18

Anyone who's found themselves curious about why, say, the Lincoln Memorial looks so similar to the Parthenon should head to this exhibit, which explores how ancient Greek and Roman styles influenced DC's architecture.

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The National Women's History Museum Opens its First In-Person Exhibit Today - Washingtonian

Since its founding in 1996, the National Women's History Museum-one of the country's largest collections of women's history information and artifacts-has been an online museum focused on research projects.Today, it's debuting its first ever physical exhibition: We Who Believe in Freedom: Black Feminist DC will be on display at the Martin Luther King Jr. Library in Penn Quarter through September 2024.

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US politics

Texas representative becomes first Black woman Democrat to play in Congressional Baseball Game

Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett broke new ground Wednesday night as the first Black woman Democrat to play in the Congressional Baseball Game's 114-year history.I'm playing today for all the little Black girls with big dreams - whether those dreams are on the baseball field or in the halls of Congress, Crockett said in a statement to CNN prior to the game.

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Girls

For Black Debutantes in Detroit, Cotillion Is More Than a Ball

In a heady swirl of bright white silk and lace, the young ladies of the Cotillion Society of Detroit Educational Foundation are presented as debutantes.The Society's annual ball is the culmination of eight months of etiquette lessons, leadership workshops, community service projects and cultural events.

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Here's What to Know About Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story'

With her withering glares and colossal wigs, Queen Charlotte has become a treasured character in the first two seasons of Bridgerton, the steamy hit Netflix series set in an alternate, racially diverse version of Regency Era Britain.As played by Golda Rosheuvel, she is a hard-line matriarch with an ear for gossip and an eye for beauty.

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Artificial intelligence

Researcher Meredith Whittaker says AI's biggest risk isn't consciousness'it's the corporations that control them

AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton, a 75-year-old computer scientist known as the Godfather of AI, has made waves this week after resigning from Google to warn that AI could soon surpass humans in intelligence and learn how to destroy humanity on its own.But Hinton's warnings, while dire, are missing the point, says Meredith Whittaker, a prominent AI researcher who was pushed out of Google in 2019 in part for organizing employees against the company's deal with the Pentagon to build machine vision technology for military drones.

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France news

France urged to outlaw hair discrimination against afros and braids

France must introduce a law banning hair discrimination against natural afro hairstyles and braids, a lawmaker from Guadeloupe has argued as he prepares a cross-party bill to be presented to parliament in the autumn.Just as the Republic's motto is liberty, equality, fraternity', this is about allowing everyone to be as they are and as they want to be, whether in it's in the workplace or anywhere else, Olivier Serva told France Info radio.

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Public health

US maternal mortality is more than ten times higher than in Australia. Why? | Moira Donegan

America is in a maternal health crisis.According to new CDC data released this week, the rate of maternal mortality defined as deaths during pregnancy or within 42 days of giving birth rose by 40% in 2021.At a rate of 33 deaths for every 100,000 live births, 1,205 women died of maternal causes that year.

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US politics

A Retired Prosecutor's Quest for Recognition

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa What is the weight of history?For Stephanie Wright, it's as slight as the thinnest of books, a 259-page volume that has upended her life for months and set her on an unusual and determined quest for recognition.She appealed to the Justice Department and some of the highest-ranking officials and judges in the federal court system in the Midwest.

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DC food

Review | 'The Blackening': Not quite horror, but lots of killer laughs

Yvonne Orji, left, and Jay Pharoah in "The Blackening." (Glen Wilson/Lionsgate)Comment Gift Article StarOutline (2.5 stars) Film historians and stand-up comics alike agree: In horror movies, Black characters get the raw end of the deal, usually fatally.That explains the tag line of "The Blackening," a film with an all-Black cast that uses humor to subvert horror: "We can't all die first."

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What to Know About Eclampsia

On Tuesday, an autopsy report shared with The New York Times showed that the Olympic sprinter Tori Bowie, who was found dead in May, was eight months pregnant and in labor at the time of her death.She was 32 years old.The report identified complications of childbirth as the cause of death, listing eclampsia and respiratory distress as possible factors.

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Girls

What to Know About the New Treatment for Hot Flashes

The Food and Drug Administration approved a new nonhormonal oral drug Friday, under the brand name Veozah, designed to treat menopausal hot flashes.The drug provides women with a safe and effective treatment option, Dr. Janet Maynard, director of the F.D.A. Office of Rare Diseases, Pediatrics, Urologic and Reproductive Medicine said in a statement.

Bronx Times

Montefiore's See, Test & Treat event bridging cancer screening gap for the un- and underinsured - Bronx Times

In 2011, Judy Huie-Kennedy was diagnosed with stage 3B cervical cancer, and the journey to a cancer-free status in the following years was arduous, including two rounds of intense chemotherapy, radiation treatment and a hysterectomy.Getting screened and diagnosed was "half the battle," Huie-Kennedy told the Bronx Times.

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When Should Women Get Regular Mammograms? At 40, U.S. Panel Now Says.

Alarmed by an increase in breast cancer diagnoses among younger women and persistently high death rates among Black women in particular, health experts on Tuesday offered a stark revision to the standard medical advice on mammograms.Women of all racial and ethnic backgrounds who are at average risk for breast cancer should start getting regular mammograms at age 40 instead of waiting until they are 50, as previously recommended, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force said.

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Systemic racism is contributing to rise in induced labor among Black and Latina mothers, new study says

A new study by researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder found that Black and Latina mothers in the US may have been induced into labor based on the needs of White pregnant women and not their own.The study, published Wednesday in the American Sociological Association's Journal of Health and Social Behavior, suggests systemic racism may be shaping obstetric care in the United States.

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Women Are Missing Work Because of Menopause Symptoms, Study Shows

Menopause costs American women an estimated $1.8 billion in lost working time per year, according to a Mayo Clinic study published this week.The paper examined how hot flashes, night sweats, mood swings and the myriad other symptoms associated with this time of life affect women in the workplace.It's the largest study of its kind to have been done in the United States.

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Here Come the Flash Periods

In 2016, Alisha Coleman, a 52-year-old 911 call-center worker in Georgia, was fired from her job because she started experiencing a hallmark symptom of perimenopause: unpredictable and heavy periods, also known as flash periods.Once, her period was so heavy, she bled through her clothes and onto an office chair.

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Girls

Jessie Maple, Pathbreaking Filmmaker, Is Dead at 86

Jessie Maple, who built careers as a camerawoman and an independent filmmaker when Black women were almost nonexistent in those fields, and who then left meticulous instructions for later generations to follow in her footsteps, died on May 30 at her home in Atlanta.She was 86.Her death was confirmed by E. Danielle Butler, her longtime assistant and the co-author of her self-published 2019 memoir, The Maple Crew.

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Privacy professionals

Victory! New Jersey Court Rules Police Must Give Defendant the Facial Recognition Algorithms Used to Identify Him

1. A New Jersey court has ruled that police must provide defendants with access to facial recognition technology when it is used in their case.

2. The ruling is a major victory for civil liberties advocates, as it reinforces the right to due process and the ability to challenge evidence used in criminal cases.

3. This ruling is an important step in the ongoing effort to ensure privacy and civil liberties are respected in the digital age. [ more ]

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John Beasley, Late-Blooming Actor Known for Playing Sages, Dies at 79

John Beasley, who left his job as a railroad clerk in his mid-40s to pursue acting full time, bringing an understated power to films like the inspirational 1993 football movie Rudy and television series like the WB drama Everwood and the TV Land comedy The Soul Man, died on May 30 in Omaha.He was 79.

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Robin Thede Is on a Mission

LOS ANGELES I'm so glad we're all here.Robin Thede, the creator, showrunner, writer and star of HBO's A Black Lady Sketch Show, was talking aloud to no one in particular at a photo shoot earlier this month, beaming as she surveyed a room populated by what could accurately be called a Black lady P.R. team and a Black lady stylist team (not to mention a Black lady journalist).

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Swarm' Review: The Underside of Atlanta'

Fresh off the November finale of his singular comedy-not-comedy Atlanta, Donald Glover is back with Swarm, a creepy little mini-series (seven half-hour episodes premiered Friday on Amazon Prime Video) that tries to achieve some of that earlier show's disorienting, disquieting effects in the context of horror.

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Chicago

Laura Washington: My mother lived the transformation of Chicago

My mother was a woman who, as they say, "don't take no stuff."On May 17, Gwendolyn "Gwen" Washington passed away at the age of 89 after a brief illness.She was my voice and inspiration to cover racial justice and politics.A fiercely independent force.A crackling bundle of energy to the end.

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Chicago

David Greising: Kim Foxx and Lori Lightfoot show the reality of governing with progressive ideals in Illinois

Much has been made of a new progressive era in Illinois politics, and a series of recent public remarks by elected Chicago officials formed a triptych of the promise and the problems of being a progressive leader at this time in Illinois."The vanguard for progressive policy all over this country" is what Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson called Illinois before a joint session of the state legislature last week.

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Chicago

Editorial: Donald Trump and Jussie Smollett have much in common. Both merit attention from prosecutors.

We don't doubt for a second that there is a political motivation behind Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's investigation, and much-anticipated potential indictment, of former President Donald Trump.Democrats can insist otherwise all they like.Republicans may scream that any pending indictment merely is naked partisanship.

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California

Crime is down in L.A. as city plans to spend $3.2 billion to expand LAPD

(Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)

As Los Angeles prepares to expand its police force, with a $3.2-billion boost in spending, new data show that crime in the city has dropped moderately in 2023.Through May 20, L.A. experienced a drop of more than 10% in violent crime this year compared with the same period in 2022.

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California

California legislator proposes 'Ebony Alert' bill to report missing Black children, young women

(Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)

A California legislator proposed a bill to establish an "Ebony Alert" system that would inform people of missing Black children and young women - similar to the Amber Alert.State Sen. Steven Bradford (D-Gardena) introduced Senate Bill 673 last week, citing the overrepresentation and underreporting of missing Black children and young women in California.

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NYC food

'Twins That Cook' and the Cookie That Catapulted Them to Fame

"The last two-and-a-half years, a meteor hit and we were just like, 'Whoa, what is this?'" Aria Christian says of the success she and her (nearly) identical twin sister Maya never saw coming.The people who know them best probably suspected they were destined for galactic success - maybe not as food entrepreneurs, though.

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US Elections

Black women look to break a streak of disappointment in the Senate

But the paths for the Black women running outside of Delaware are less clear.Standing in their way are crowded primary fields full of candidates with massive personal wealth or an army of grassroots liberal donors.Democrats who have waited decades for more racial and gender equity in the Senate are desperate for the party to avoid the pitfalls of last cycle.

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NHS Trust chief to publicly apologise to victims of maternity care scandal

The head of an under-fire NHS trust will publicly apologise to victims of a maternity scandal as the chair of a review into the episode said the trust has a lot of learning to do.Nick Carver, chairman of the Nottingham University Hospitals (NUH) NHS Trust, will apologise on its behalf to parents who were affected by poor maternity care at its annual public meeting on 10 July, the trust said.

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NHS Trust chief to publicly apologise to victims of maternity care scandal

The head of an under-fire NHS Trust will publicly apologise to victims of a maternity scandal as the chair of a review into the episode said the trust has a lot of learning to do.Anthony May, chief executive of the Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, will apologise on its behalf to parents who were affected by poor maternity care at its annual public meeting on July 10, the trust said on Wednesday.

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Historic England seeks Missing Pieces about important places around the country

Historic England is appealing for hidden histories to be shared and for overlooked places to be celebrated as part of its Missing Pieces Project.The heritage body is calling for people to upload to its website photos or stories about any of the more than 400,000 places on the National Heritage List for England.

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First black maternal conference aims to look at racial health disparities

Black women will take centre stage at what is believed to be the first maternal health conference of its kind in the UK.Sandra Igwe said the gathering of clinicians, service providers and mothers is the first to focus specifically on racial health disparities experienced by black women.Research has found that black women are almost four times more likely to die in pregnancy and childbirth than white women.

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Intellectual property law

This Week in Washington IP: Government Funding of Decarbonization, the State of Black-owned Businesses, and U.S. Tech Diplomacy

This week in Washington IP news, Congress is having a relatively quiet week, but the House will further discuss the impact of Pharmacy Benefit Managers on patients and the pharmaceutical industry.Elsewhere the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is holding an event offering guidance on how women entrepreneurs can seek startup capital.

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Mammogram Guidelines Are Changing. But They're Still Controversial Among Doctors

For decades, women have received changing advice about who should mammogram screenings for breast cancer, and how often.The guidelines have been especially variable for women in their 40sleading them confused about what schedule is right for them.The recommendations may be changing yet again.From 2016 until now, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF), a government body of experts that regularly reviews data on important health issues, has advised women ages 40 to 50 to make personalized decisions about their screening schedule after discussing their health history and risks for breast cancer with their doctors.

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Opinion | How to Think About the New Breast Cancer Screening Guidelines

When I learned that the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force once again changed its recommendation for when women should begin screening for breast cancer this time recommending women start at age 40 rather than 50 I had just finished operating on a 48-year-old African American woman with aggressive breast cancer.

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US panel advises breast cancer screenings should begin at age 40

Lowering age for biennial screenings could result in more lives being saved, US health task force says.Women should begin getting mammogram screenings for breast cancer at age 40, an influential United States health panel has advised, in a move the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) said could help save thousands of lives.

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Women Should Start Getting Mammograms at 40, Not 50, U.S. Health Panel Recommends

WASHINGTON Women should start getting every-other-year mammograms at age 40 instead of waiting until 50, according to a draft recommendation from a federal task force.The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force has long said women can choose to start breast cancer screening as young as 40, with a stronger recommendation that they get the X-ray exams every two years from age 50 through 74.

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Women now recommended to begin mammograms at 40, task force says

All women are now encouraged to start screening for breast cancer at age 40, a U.S. task force announced Tuesday, revising a past recommendation to begin regular mammograms at 50.The updated practice could increase the number of lives saved by 19%, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force said in its draft recommendation.

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If you're 40, it's time to start mammograms, according to new guidelines

New recommendations from the USPSTF advise that women get biannual mammograms starting at age 40 to detect breast cancers.andresr/Getty Images Breast cancer is very treatable when caught early, and mammograms, which are X-ray images of breasts, are a reliable screening test to detect it.Now, new draft recommendations released Tuesday from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force urges all women to get screened every other year, starting at age 40.

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Over-the-counter birth-control pill: FDA advisers vote unanimously in support of OTC pill | CNN

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FDA advisers vote unanimously in support of over-the-counter birth-control pill

Advisers for the US Food and Drug Administration voted unanimously on Wednesday in support of making the birth-control pill Opill available over-the-counter, saying the benefits outweigh the risks.Two FDA advisory panels agreed that people would use the Opill safely and effectively and said groups including adolescents and those with limited literacy would be able to take the pill at the same time every day without help from a health care worker.

LGBTQ Nation

Surprising study indicates trans women in gender-affirming care contract HIV less often

New research published in The Lancet HIV indicates that transgender women who receive gender-affirming medical care are less likely to contract and transmit HIV.This surprising finding is probably due to the health education trans women get while recieving such care.The study revealed that about one in 200 trans women in the U.S. contract the immunodeficiency virus each year.

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A common-sense initiative in Boston aims to reduce maternal mortality among Black women

Health One of the complications contributing to high U.S. maternal mortality among Black women is preeclampsia.A common-sense initiative in Boston gives women a blood pressure cuff to take home.Copyright 2023 NPR.All rights reserved.Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at www.npr.org for further information.

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A common-sense initiative in Boston aims to reduce maternal morality among Black women

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US pregnancy deaths are down to pre-COVID levels

NEW YORK Deaths of pregnant women in the U.S. fell in 2022, dropping significantly from a six-decade high during the pandemic, new data suggests.More than 1,200 U.S. women died in 2021 during pregnancy or shortly after childbirth, according to a final tally released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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The U.S. has a high rate of preterm births, and abortion bans could make that worse

Physicians say roughly half of all preterm births are preventable, caused by social, economic and environmental factors, as well as inadequate access to prenatal health care.ER Productions Limited/Getty Images Tamara Etienne's second pregnancy was freighted with risk and worry from its earliest days exacerbated by a first pregnancy that had ended in miscarriage.

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Advisory Panel Urges FDA to Approve Over-the-Counter Birth Control

The move could expand access to a key method of contraception without a prescription or age restrictions.Sophia Yen, CEO and co-founder of Pandia Health, holds a one-months prescription of birth control pills at the health startup's office in Palo Alto, California, on June 5, 2019.Paul Chinn / San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images This story was originally published by The 19th.

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Medicine

New Mammogram Advice: What to Know

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, a panel of experts that issues guidelines about preventive care, has recommended all women start routine breast cancer screening at 40, instead of at 50, the previous recommendation.The panel continues to advise spacing the screenings at two-year intervals, although some other medical organizations endorse annual mammograms.

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11 tools to diversify your images

This article is republished with permission from Wonder Tools, a newsletter that helps you discover the most useful sites and apps.Subscribe here.Nappy.co hosts free images that have been downloaded a million times.Read why the founders launched it and see the new BlackxTech collection.Black Illustrations has themed collections, e.g startups and digital marketing.

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What's It Like to Have a Baby These Days?

BIRTH: Three Mothers, Nine Months, and Pregnancy in America, by Rebecca Grant The French existentialist philosopher Simone de Beauvoir provides an epigraph for Birth, Rebecca Grant's exploration of pregnancy and childbirth in the United States.Pregnancy is above all a drama playing itself out inside the woman between her and herself, Beauvoir wrote in The Second Sex (1949).

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Using artificial intelligence and archival news articles, this teen found that Black homicide victims were less humanized in news coverage

Using artificial intelligence and archival news articles, a teenager in Northern Virginia created a program to measure media biases and in researching older news articles, she found that Black homicide victims were less likely to be humanized in news coverage.Emily Ocasio, an 18-year-old from Falls Church, Virginia, created an AI program that analyzed FBI homicide records between 1976 and 1984 and their corresponding coverage published in The Boston Globe to determine whether victims were presented in a humanizing or impersonal way.

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Ro Khanna Endorses Barbara Lee's Senate Campaign as He Declines to Run

Representative Ro Khanna of California said on Sunday that he would not run in an already crowded Democratic field seeking to succeed his state's senior senator, Dianne Feinstein, who is retiring at the end of her term.In deep-blue California, the winner of the Democratic primary is likely to join Alex Padilla in representing the state in the Senate.

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NPR Cuts 10% of Staff and Halts Production of 4 Podcasts

NPR laid off 10 percent of its staff this week and announced that it would stop production of four popular podcasts Invisibilia, Louder Than a Riot, Rough Translation and Everyone & Their Mom to make up for a $30 million gap in its budget.The layoffs were widespread across different departments and included producers, hosts, audience researchers and designers.

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Khanna endorses Barbara Lee for U.S. Senate

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Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Fremont) announced Sunday that he will co-chair Rep. Barbara Lee's campaign for U.S. Senate.Khanna, who has been urged by allies of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) to consider a run at the presidency, had spent months considering a potential bid to succeed retiring California Sen. Dianne Feinstein, signaling shortly after Rep. Katie Porter (D-Irvine) launched her campaign in January that he would make a decision over the next few months.

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Sports

Countdown to Change in Women's College Basketball: One Mississippi

PALO ALTO, Calif.Wait, hold on a minute.Upsets like this aren't supposed to happen, especially during the N.C.A.A. basketball tournament on the women's side.On Sunday night, on its packed home court, a No. 1-seeded Stanford team fronted by a pair of all-Americans played as if it were struggling to learn the basics layups and intelligent passing, to name two.

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New can't-miss podcasts from public media

Spring is a time of renewal.If you're looking to give your podcast listening a refresh, the NPR One team has gathered a few returning favorites as well as some new shows from across public media to check out.City of Tents: Veterans Row In one of LA's fanciest neighborhoods, homeless military veterans built a big tent city and refused to leave.

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It's Equal Pay Day. The gender pay gap has hardly budged in 20 years. What gives?

Women earn about 82 cents for every dollar men make, according to the U.S. Government Accountability Office.That means on March 14, women's pay catches up to what men made in 2022.Klaus Vedfelt/Getty Images Tuesday is Equal Pay Day: March 14th represents how far into the year women have had to work to catch up to what their male colleagues earned the previous year.

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Making History During Black History Month - San Francisco Bay Times

By Rebecca Kaplan, Oakland City Councilmember At-Large-
On February 2, 2023, a press conference was held where I, along with Mayor Sheng Thao, Councilmembers Fife, Reid, Ramachandran, Jenkins, and Gallo, Ray Bobbitt and others in the African American Sports and Entertainment Group (AASEG) leadership, business and community leaders, appeared to announce an historic event.

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