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– Denver authorities are renewing their plea for the public to help them in their Green Valley Ranch arson investigation ... (credit. CBS). The victims in the Aug ... – (Hassan’s infant daughter) ... They had all immigrated to Colorado from the West African country of Senegal. Hassan Diol and her infant daughter, Hawa Baye (credit ... 720-913-7867....

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‘White coats for Black lives.’ Bristol doctors discuss health toll of racial injustice

Hartford Courant 13 Aug 2020

Hazards ranging from diabetes and heart disease to infant mortality hit African Americans disproportionately, and part of the reason is social injustice, speakers said at the gathering ... “Today, African Americans are the least healthy ethnic group in America,” Dawson-Camerota said....

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Meet Alabama’s feminist doctor protecting women giving birth under COVID-19

Open Democracy 12 Aug 2020

Almost 30% of its residents live in poverty and more than 70% are African American, who also face disproportionately high maternal and infant mortality rates ... Maternal and infant mortality rates are higher in Alabama than in many other parts of the country, and Cooper says “those ......

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Reward offered in Denver fire that killed 5 from Senegal

San Francisco Chronicle 08 Aug 2020

It was read by a French-speaking officer who conducted many of the investigatory interviews with immigrants from the West African nation. Hassan Diol and her infant daughter, Hawa Beye, also were killed in Wednesday's fire at a home in the Green Valley Ranch neighborhood, a ......

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Rep. Babbidge: My colleague’s PFAS bill advances

Fosters 07 Aug 2020

The legislature took important action.We passed an act to prevent infant ....

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Susan Rice is the VP Biden needs

CNN 06 Aug 2020

(CNN)Joe Biden has a high-class problem ... Jen Psaki ... She attended her confirmation hearing with her infant son -- chaired by none other than John Ashcroft -- and served as Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs while nursing him, long before breastfeeding in public or even being a working mom in a high-level position was seen as the norm ... ....

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Riverside County declares racism a public health crisis

The Press Enterprise 04 Aug 2020

For example, she said Black residents are likelier than white residents to visit the emergency room for hypertension, asthma, and diabetes and had lower birth weights and higher infant mortality rates than whites. African Americans and Latinos are more likely to live in poverty ......

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Virtual breastfeeding event addresses lack of resources in Southwest Colorado

The Journal 03 Aug 2020

Alliss Hardy with the Families Forward Resource Center in Denver works with African American mothers and aims to decrease the infant mortality rate. After the Global BIG Latch On virtual event, she hosted a private session called Black Latch for outreach specific to African American women ... ehayes@durangoherald.com ....

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Naya Rivera: Magnetic performer who broke down boundaries on ‘Glee’

Yahoo Daily News 31 Jul 2020

“If I die young, bury me in satin,. Lay me down on a bed of roses,. Sink me in the river at dawn,. Send me away with the words of a love song.” ... Glee’s Santana Lopez ... the oldest of three in a family of Puerto Rican, African-American and German heritage. As an infant, she was represented by the same talent agent as her mother Yolanda, a former model ... More....

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For tool-wielding chimps of Ebo Forest, logging plan is a ‘death sentence’

Mongabay 30 Jul 2020

Fifteen years ago, Ekwoge Abwe was trekking through Ebo Forest in Cameroon when he heard something cracking in the distance ... Then Abwe gazed up at the trees to see several Nigeria-Cameroon chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes ellioti), including a mother with an infant, using quartz stones to crack open nuts from an African walnut tree (Coula edulis)....

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Are we really living in the dread of COVID – 19?

Business Day Online 30 Jul 2020

In the Igbo metaphysics, an ‘ogbanje’ is a spirit child that dies in its infant age ... However, with the coming of the white people to Africa, and the introduction of western education to native Africans, it’s discovered that most babies that died in their infant ages in the distant past were afflicted with the deadly sickle cell anaemia disease ... ....

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Charity urges release of 200 migrant children held in Libya

Beaumont Enterprise 29 Jul 2020

Most of the children are African and between 12 and 15 years old, and some are infants, said the International Rescue Committee ... Libya has emerged as a major transit point for African and Arab migrants fleeing war and poverty for a better life in Europe ... migration agency. Thousands have been intercepted at sea and returned to Libya ... The U.N....

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Sen. Sherrod Brown introduces resolution to declare racism a public health crisis

Cleveland 22 Jul 2020

Introducing the resolution will focus public attention on how social determinants like housing, the digital divide in the schools and the criminal justice system are among the reasons why African Americans have lower life expectancy, higher maternal mortality rates, higher infant ......