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NEW BEDFORD — The night before Christmas Eve, the New Bedford Commission to Review NBPD Use of Force Policies released its final report after a six month review of the police department's policies.  The report offers recommended changes to the policies and states the recommendations “recognized and adopted language to meet the need of strengthening the emphasis on ‘duty to intervene’ and ‘de-escalation’ components for all three policies.” One recommendation states that even if the requirement to intervene is spelled out in the department’s rules and regulations, it should be ...

Uncovering lost Black history, stone by stone Gravestones for Judith Blew and her son Moses at the Stoutsburg Cemetery in Hopewell, N.J., the subject of the book “If These Stones Could Talk,” Nov. 23, 2020. Newly surfaced documents show that Tom Blew, Judith’s husband, voted in an 1801 election — in 1807, New Jersey limited the vote to white men. Amr Alfiky/The New York Times. by Jennifer Schuessler (NYT NEWS SERVICE) .- History can seem thick on the ground in this quaint, prosperous town of 2,000 in semirural central New Jersey, not far from where Washington crossed the Delaware. A cemet...

Communities of color have "every right to be nervous," Jenkins said. There is a long legacy of systemic racism in health care and medicine -- notably the Tuskegee Experiment, in which researchers tracked the progression of syphilis over several decades in hundreds of Black men by not treating them as they died or suffered severe health issues. But the Covid-19 vaccine is different, Jenkins said, noting that thousands of Black people had been involved in clinical trials. "This is not an American experiment on Black people," Jenkins said. "This is a worldwide pandemic with a worldwide vaccine ...

Uncovering Lost Black History, Stone by Stone Sourland Mountain, a once-isolated region in New Jersey, has long inspired tall tales. Two local women turned “history detectives” have been trying to recover its true story. Elaine Buck, left, and Beverly Mills, in the Stoutsburg Cemetery in Hopewell, N.J., the subject of their book, “If These Stones Could Talk.”Credit...Amr Alfiky/The New York Times Dec. 22, 2020 HOPEWELL, N.J. — History can seem thick on the ground in this quaint, prosperous town of 2,000 in semirural central New Jersey, not far from where Washington crossed the Delaw...

What you need to know about coronavirus on Tuesday, December 15 CNN 12/15/2020 © Reuters CDC releases illustration of the Coronavirus. "I trust the science," said Sandra Lindsay, a critical care nurse in New York, who was among the first people in the United States to be vaccinated on Monday. Lindsay, who is Black, said she wanted to lead by example and inspire other people, who may be skeptical of getting a vaccine. "I understand the mistrust among the minority community," she said. "I don't ask people to do anything that I would not do myself, and so I was happy to volunteer to be amon...