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11 Cookbooks by Black Authors You Should Add to Your Bookshelf One of the best ways to appreciate the culture and history of Black people is through its food, be that Southern or soul. Here are cookbooks that tell the story—along with links to many independent booksellers. Every editorial product is independently selected, though we may be compensated or receive an affiliate commission if you buy something through our links. 1 In The Rise, Marcus Samuelsson gathers food, culture and histor...

ABC News Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest? OffOn The world has COVID-19 more than a century after the 1918 flu pandemic. • 17 min read Grim new milestone: US reaches 400,000 COVID-19 deaths New strains of COVID-19 are emerging, including one from England that could become a dominant virus. Another strain could be responsible for new outbreaks in California.Apic/Getty Images Editors note: Some of the images below are animations showing two images and may take...

Photos: How the 1918 and COVID pandemics compare © Apic/Getty Images Red Cross volunteers fighting against the Spanish flu epidemic in the United States in 1918. Editors note: Some of the images below are animations showing two images and may take longer to load. There are strong parallels between the COVID-19 pandemic and the 1918 flu pandemic, considered to be the deadliest of the 20th century. The 1918 flu pandemic killed an estimated 50 million worldwide, including nearly 675,000 Amer...

Paper Reviewed Humanes-Fuente, V., Ferrero, M.E., Muñoz, A.A., González-Reyes, A., Requena-Rojas, E.J., Barichivich, J., Inga, J.G. and Layme-Huaman, E.T. 2020. Two centuries of hydroclimatic variability reconstructed from tree-ring records over the Amazonian Andes of Peru. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 125, e2020JD032565. According to Humanes-Fuente et al. (2020), "longer records are needed to improve our understanding of rainfall variability and summer monsoon behavior at v...