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Newport fights FDA ban to continue marketing menthol cigarettes to African Americans
Among the company’s tactics: buying up a host of menthol-bashing Internet domain names, including MentholKillsMinorities.com, MentholAddictsYouth.com and FDAMustBanMenthol.com.
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Howard grad becomes California’s first female and first African American attorney general
Harris attended Howard University in Washington, D.C., where she was initiated into Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority, and received her Juris Doctor (JD) from University of California, Hastings College of the Law in 1989.
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HBCU alumna becomes the only African-American player to earn status on the LPGA Tour
The 6’1” Averyhardt recorded nine wins in collegiate competition while a student at Jackson State University, a historically black university in Jackson, Miss., where she graduated in 2008 with a degree in accounting.
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[video] The President & First Lady explain Child Nutrition Bill
All children should have the basic nutrition they need to learn and grow and to pursue their dreams, because in the end, nothing is more important than the health and well-being of our children
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New study suggests stem cell transplant cures HIV
Doctors recently published a report in the journal Blood affirming that the results of extensive testing “strongly suggest that cure of HIV infection has been achieved.”
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Unemployed or underemployed: College educated families are becoming the new poor
These families face a never-ending treadmill of tough decisions. Do they use their income — if they have one — to pay their mortgage or feed themselves? Do they pay for a hospital visit or put dinner on the table?
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Historic NYC neighborhood protests pawn shop with ‘Bling Baby’ mural
“Can you believe this? We’ve been trying for years to change the image of Crown Heights, even to get landmark status for some of these streets and their beautiful houses and this comes along”.
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U.N. peacekeepers are the likely source of a cholera outbreak in Haiti
Investigators indicated that the first patients were obtaining drinking water from a tributary of the Artibonite River flowing just below the (U.N.) base.