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Here’s why Black History Month matters | Opinion
Updated Feb 19, 2021;
By Joyce M. Davis
In their day, Marian Anderson, Leontyne Price, even the dignified Mahalia Jackson had to go through the back door to mesmerize audiences with their talents; a sign of their inferior status as Blacks in America society.
Today, acclaimed tenor Christyan Seay can walk through any front door of any Opera house anywhere in America, a sign of the progress Black Americans have made in the centuries-long march from slavery toward full equality.
But we ain’t there, yet.
Black leaders talk about issues of the Black community past, present and future.Posted by PennLive.com on Tuesday, February 16, 2021
A former Ohio police officer, who is white, will appear at a bail hearing on Friday after his arrest on a charge of murder in the fatal shooting on an unarmed Black man in December.
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Missouri state lawmaker charged with selling fake COVID-19 cure
A newly elected Missouri state representative faces 20 federal charges accusing her of selling fake COVID-19 treatments at the three health clinics she runs, the U.S. Attorney s Office said. Federal prosecutors allege that Patricia Derges, 63 - a Republican who was elected in November and is an assistant physician by profession - provided patients with a prescription amniotic fluid she falsely claimed contained stem cells that can fight COVID-19, according to a news release.
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