The settlement sets a precedent, potentially leading to complaints seeking compensation and control of Lacks’ cells, famously known as “HeLa” cells, the world’s first cells capable of replicating outside the human body. By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent@StacyBrownMedia Living relatives of Henrietta Lacks have reached a confidential settlement with Thermo Read More…
Florida’s new history standards say that African Americans benefited from slavery. Florida educators, including social studies teacher Jorje Botello, are furious about it. Florida’s new standards for how African American history should be taught have drawn severe criticism across the country, especially in The Sunshine State. These new standards require middle school students to be Read More…
(South Central Heaven, Paradise) — On Sunday morning, theGrio began receiving preliminary reports that the secret naval unit of Black America had been dispatched to Riverfront Park in Montgomery, Ala. The unit was responding to a skirmish that the Montgomery Advertiser would later describe as “racially divided,” after a dockworker asked pontoon boaters to move Read More…
The viral photograph, a prelude to Everest’s deadliest day in years. (Nirmal Purja Project Possible Ltd.) It was morning and bright, and Reinhard Grubhofer, depleted and dehydrated, hoisted his body over a crest and rose uneasily. There, from the summit of Mount Everest, he could see everything. How the earth curved gorgeously in all direction; Read More…
Share this on Facebook (opens in new window) Share this on Twitter (opens in new window) Share All sharing options ThereThere is a bee twiddling its legs on the moonlit dashboard of Bill Crawford’s pickup. I tell him we’ve got a straggler before it crawls under a stack of stained papers. There are roughly 4 Read More…
“Sometimes the tallest animals face the biggest challenges closest to the ground. Such was the case this week for a giraffe who became entangled in a private, non-electrified fence in Rombo area. It didn’t see the fence so low to the ground amidst it’s own shadow, and quickly found itself in a tricky situation. One Read More…
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