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by Cortlyn Brown Article Reprint Fact:  African Americans are incarcerated at almost 6 times the rate of Caucasians. These are our sisters, neighbors, friends, moms, and most commonly, our brothers, fathers, and uncles. If they

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North Africa: small glimmers of light in bid to stop violence against women

By: Rebecca L. Farnum Article Reprint North Africa holds the dubious “honour” of being among the world’s worst regions for gender-based discrimination, sexual harassment and violence against women.

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Landslide in northern Myanmar kills about 70; 100 missing

By ESTHER HTUSAN Article Reprint YANGON, Myanmar — A landslide near a jade mine in northern Myanmar killed up to 70 people and left more than 100 missing, most of them villagers sifting through a

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Video Extra >>> Juvenile Cancer: Study Could Result in New Treatments

Juvenile Cancer: Study Could Result in New Treatments

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Video Extra #2 >>> The Surprising Science of How We “Taste” Food

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Obesity is still a growing problem for American adults, CDC says

By: Karen Kaplan Article Reprint America’s obesity problem just keeps getting bigger.

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California Takes A Stand On Antibiotics In Livestock

by Alex Zielinski Article Reprint In 2009, a salmonella outbreak in a California beef plant left 63 people ill. Five years later, another salmonella outbreak linked to California poultry plants infected more than 600 people.

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Gone Too Soon: Black Males and Suicide

by Dr. Bill Johnson II Article Submission At age 16, despite being given no trial, Kalief Browder was imprisoned at Rikers Island, where he would spend the next three years of his life unjustly incarcerated.

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