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The trial began this week and is expected to last six weeks, with the defense and prosecution planning to rely heavily on the four-minute video to make their case.

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Stereotypes have long hindered female candidates, casting them as emotional, weak and sensitive. But now our political science research shows that voters in the U.S. increasingly see women leaders as synonymous with political leadership – and as more effective than men politicians.

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Edward Anthony speaks of his time at Holmesburg Prison in Philadelphia and the tests in which he participated while incarcerated there, Oct. 24, 2007. (Michael Bryant/The Philadelphia Inquirer via AP, File) 

Philadelphia prison officials had allowed an Ivy League researcher to conduct human testing on incarcerated people, many of them Black, for decades.

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It’s a wonder of Montgomery Country because they wonder how we’re still here! It’s an oasis where people will be able to see a symbol of freedom…even though water tried to wipe it away, God is lifting it up higher and higher.”

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Smalls escaped from slavery in May 1862 by wearing Confederate clothes and mimicking the hand signals and whistles to sail the rebel ship past guards and to the U.S. Navy. He also served in the U.S. House after the Civil War and wrote a constitution that allowed Blacks to vote before racists took back over.

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At an event Tuesday in Miami, he said Harris was “lazy as hell” for not holding a campaign event that day. Harris spent her day in meetings in Washington and recording interviews with Telemundo and NBC. 

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Voters in key battleground states such as Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, and Pennsylvania overwhelmingly favor reform, positioning the issue as potentially a deciding factor in the 2024 presidential race.

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The study reveals that Black patients are 29% less likely than their white counterparts to receive multimodal analgesia, which utilizes various medications to improve pain control while reducing opioid use.

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Yusef Salaam (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer) 

Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Raymond Santana, Korey Wise, and Yusef Salaam—who spent years in prison before their 2002 exoneration—accuse Trump of defaming them, painting them in a false light, and intentionally inflicting emotional distress by continuing to spread falsehoods about their case.

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Dr. Elizabeth Linos, Emma Bloomberg Associate Professor of Public Policy and Management at Harvard University, appeared on the Black Press’ Let It Be Known to discuss her groundbreaking study, “Intersectional Peer Effects at Work: The Effects of White Co-Workers on Black Women’s Careers.”

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