Wangari Maathai: First black African woman to win a Nobel Prize
Contemporary Black Biography COPYRIGHT 2005 Thomson Gale Wangari Maathai 1940– Environmental activist Joined the Fight For Women’s Rights CheapOair
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United Nations admits it played role in Haiti cholera epidemic
Our Foreign Staff 18 AUGUST 2016 • 5:14PM Victims’ advocates hailed as vindication on Thursday the United Nations’ acknowledgment it
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Robert Rayford: First documented case of AIDS in America
Case Shakes Theories Of Aids Origin October 25, 1987|By John Crewdson, (copyright) 1987 Chicago Tribune. ST. LOUIS — Long before
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The Ugly Racial Undertones In Our Panicked Response To Ebola: Fear of a Black Planet
The Ugly Racial Undertones In Our Panicked Response To Ebola BY TARA CULP-RESSLER POSTED ON OCTOBER 16, 2014 AT 4:18 PM On
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Why do African-American women breastfeed less?
9 June 2014 Last updated at 19:13 ET By Magazine Monitor A collection of cultural artefacts According to the US
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D.C. hospital reports high rate of black women seeking treatment for advanced breast cancer
By Lena H. Sun, Published: May 9 2014 Cancer specialists at MedStar Washington Hospital Center are trying to find out
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Fighting a silent epidemic: Viral Hepatitis in the African American Community
April 24, 2014 • By J. Nadine Gracia, MD, MSCE, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Minority Health (Acting), Office of Minority Health, U.S.
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Study claims skin cancer caused dark skin to evolve
Odd Cause of Humans’ Dark Skin Proposed By Stephanie Pappas, Senior Writer | February 25, 2014 07:01pm ET Skin
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NYC Megachurch Leader Says Church Must Act on ‘Alarming’ Abortion Trend Among Black Women
Rev. Elaine Flake of The Greater Allen A.M.E. Cathedral of New York ‘Devastated’ by Health Department’s Report BY NICOLA MENZIE , CHRISTIAN POST
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Aborted babies incinerated to heat UK hospitals
Aborted babies incinerated to heat UK hospitals The remains of more than 15,000 babies were incinerated as ‘clinical waste’ by
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Cameroonian pop singer Dencia defends promotion of skin whitening cream
‘White means pure’: African singer defends ‘Whitenicious’ skin-bleaching cream after being accused of encouraging people to change skin tone
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Could AIDS be cured by modifying patients’ genes? New treatment could spell the end of daily drug regime
By EMMA INNES PUBLISHED: 16:04 EST, 5 March 2014 | UPDATED: 08:43 EST, 6 March 2014 Scientists modified genes in cells of patients to help
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