The Florida board of education has faced criticism from educators and civil rights groups after approving new guidelines for teaching Black American history. The guidelines include "benchmark clarifications" for middle school students, addressing how slaves developed skills for personal benefit.

US: Florida introduces fresh guidelines on teaching Black history, receives flak

By the time vaccines for the coronavirus were introduced late last year, the pandemic had taken two of Lucenia Williams Dunn’s close friends. Still, Dunn, a former mayor of Tuskegee, contemplated for months whether to be inoculated.

Why many Black Americans changed their minds about Covid shots

Forty years ago this month the first men began dying of a mysterious disease in California that would later be identified as AIDS. It would go on to claim millions of lives across the world.

Four decades of AIDS: A Timeline

Dedra Spears Johnson was working as a social worker in a suburb of the US capital Washington at the height of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the 1990s when she concluded Black women's needs weren't being met by efforts to fight the disease.

Forty years on, Black Americans disproportionately hit by HIV

Lawyers for the family of a Black man killed by sheriff's deputies in North Carolina during an attempted arrest said on Tuesday that an independent autopsy showed he died from a 'kill shot' to his head as he tried to drive away.

Lawyers say African American Andrew Brown Jr was hit with 'kill shot' to head

Wilton Gregory, the first African American to be named as cardinal and known as a refined diplomat, made headlines when he blasted President Donald Trump’s photo opportunity hoisting a Bible at a Washington church after police used tear gas to clear demonstrators in June.

First Black American cardinal is outspoken civil rights advocate

Democratic vice-presidential nominee Kamala Harris on Monday said the black Americans are dying from COVID-19 at 2x the rate of white Americans. Also read | Biden, Harris wish Hindu-Americans on the occasion of Navratri In a tweet she said that "black Americans are dying from COVID-19 at 2x the rate of white Americans.

Black Americans are dying from Covid-19 at double the rate of white Americans: Kamala Harris

WASHINGTON — One day in September, Elizabeth Leiba opened the LinkedIn app and saw a post by Aaisha Joseph, a diversity consultant with nearly 16,000 followers on the platform.

Black LinkedIn is thriving. Does LinkedIn have a problem with that?

Hundreds of workers rallied Monday outside San Francisco City Hall to protest systemic racism and economic inequality, joining a nationwide demonstration demanding improvement of Black Americans' experiences in the workplace.

San Franciscans strike over racial inequality

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