Hazel Trice Edney
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Son of Jesse Jackson to Help Deal With High Costs of Prison Phone Calls
Attorney and entrepreneur Yusef Jackson is joining the executive team at Aventiv Technologies, according to a company announcement.
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On Rare Disease Day, Black Families Use Their Stories to Empower Others
It was about 10 a.m. about six months ago, Aug. 18. Jamie and Tonya Nash and their two sons were…
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More Than 1M Will Die in Next Decade Because of Prescription Drug Prices: Study
The extreme prices contribute to serious complications and death when people have to ration their life-saving drugs because they can’t…
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Civil Rights Groups Escalate Fight Against High Costs of Prescription Drugs
Civil rights leaders and lawmakers across the nation are now pressing increasingly hard to establish public policies to monitor and…
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Health Insurers Must Answer for Coronavirus-Related Disparities in Black and Latino Communities
Black and Latino communities throughout the United States have disproportionately suffered the most devastating impacts of the coronavirus, including a…
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Chavis to Host Weekly Black Talk Show on PBS
Civil rights icon Benjamin F. Chavis, former NAACP executive director and current NNPA president/CEO, will begin hosting a weekly Black-oriented…
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2010 Census Omitted 3.7 Million Blacks — Nearly Five Times Its Original ‘Undercount’ Claims
A special report released by the National Urban League reveals that the U. S. Census Bureau omitted at least 3.7…
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NAACP Black Media Forum Excludes Black Newspapers
A recent NAACP "Black Media Speaks" forum plummeted into a conversation in which the future of hard-copy Black-owned newspapers was…
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Civil Rights Lawyers Demand State Numbers with ‘All Deliberate Speed’ as Blacks Die Disparately from COVID-19
It is often said that when America gets a cold, Black America gets pneumonia — or far worse. That has…
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