At the end of the book, I wrote that I wanted to see “within the next five years a robust and coordinated strategy to change the racial justice narrative in a way that authentically and earnestly includes girls and women.” When the book was first published, girls of color — particularly black girls — were […]
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A meeting planned for Monday between officials of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, Russia and other oil producers, which had buoyed hopes for a deal to end the turmoil in energy markets, has been put off, according to two OPEC delegates. The news comes as lingering tensions have surfaced once again between Saudi
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PHILADELPHIA — There are the new dead. And then there are the bodies waiting in overcrowded mortuaries to be buried as cities struggle to meet demand and families wrestle with rules on social distancing that make the usual funeral rituals impossible. Med Alliance Group, a medical distributor in Illinois, is besieged by calls and emails
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WASHINGTON — The symptoms were more annoying than alarming: A dry cough, achiness and then sniffles developed a few days after Andrew Young, the American ambassador to Burkina Faso, met with government officials and aid organizations to discuss how to protect the West African nation from the coronavirus. A week later, Mr. Young was sealed
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ROME — San Marino needed medical masks. Badly. The tiny republic, wedged next to two of Italy’s hardest-hit provinces in the COVID-19 outbreak, had already registered 11 deaths by March 17 — a sizeable number in a country of just 33,000, and a harbinger of worse to come. So authorities sent off a bank transfer
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Image caption Aimee O’Rourke died in the hospital where she worked It is “inevitable” more health workers will die from coronavirus, the UK’s largest nursing union has said. Theresa Fyffe, director of the Royal College of Nursing in Scotland, was speaking after the deaths of nurses Aimee O’Rourke and Areema Nasreen, who had both tested
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Serbia soccer player Aleksandar Prijovic has been arrested for flouting the curfew imposed to curb the coronavirus spread April 4, 2020, 1:02 PM 1 min read BELGRADE, Serbia — Serbia soccer player Aleksandar Prijovic has been arrested for flouting the curfew imposed to curb the coronavirus spread. A police statement said on Saturday that Prijovic
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Sir Keir Starmer supporter David Lammy said his election win was “good news for the country”. The Labour MP also said Angela Rayner would make a “fantastic deputy leader”. After their election results were announced, Mr Lammy said the pair would “provide the opposition that country so dearly needs”. BBC coverage of Labour Party leader
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Adding frozen ingredients and premade meals (on top of canned foods and other shelf-stable goods) to your shopping list can help you keep your kitchen stocked for longer and prolong the time before the next grocery run, which is especially key in these unprecedented times during the coronavirus pandemic. But before you fill your cart
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Grateful but frustrated singer Pink revealed Friday that she recently tested positive for the coronavirus — and finally got the all-clear just days ago. But Pink, whose real name is Alecia Moore, is appalled that the test she had access to isn’t widely available — and is donating $1 million to two emergency funds to “support
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