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By: LINDEN BECKFORD JR. and MOTHER DIVA It was an epic moment and gathering on December 2, 2023, for the 40th Anniversary of Thriller Dance Re-Enactment produced by Chicago Community Activist/ Producer Mother Diva. The event was sponsored in part by the LA Valley Recovery Center. They help people detox from drugs and alcohol. “Mr. Jackson always believed in doing things that had never been done before. Out of all

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(GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --  The National Civil Rights Museum has opened a new exhibition, Lest We Forget… Images of the Black Civil Rights Movement, on display until May 6, 2024. This traveling collection, showcasing 35 powerful portraits and images by Robert Templeton, captures key figures and moments from the Black civil rights movement, spanning from the Niagara Movement to the 1970s. Against the backdrop of Templeton's humble beginnings in the Great

(AP NEWS) - Federal prosecutors told a judge Wednesday they intend to retry former Louisville officer Brett Hankison after a jury deadlocked last month over charges he used excessive force the night Breonna Taylor was killed by police in 2020. A judge declared a mistrial Nov. 16 after the jury deliberated for several days but could not reach a unanimous decision. Hankison fired 10 shots the night of the deadly

Will Atwater - NC Health News Judging by recent developments, microplastics have risen to the status of supervillain. Reports about these new anti-heroes read almost like celebrity sightings. The tiny particles are everywhere: in water, on land, on mountaintops, in humans and animals - and even in the clouds. Microplastic compounds are defined as being less than 5 mm long, which is slightly larger than a sesame seed, but many microplastic

NC NEWSLINE - Rep. Tricia Cotham, the Democrat-turned-Republican who upended North Carolina politics, has a Democratic challenger in the  Mecklenburg House district where she's running for another term. Yolanda Holmes, the Democrat who came in second to Cotham in a four-way Democratic primary in 2022, filed to run in the district. Cotham, a Mint Hill resident,  became a GOP hero when she switched parties this year to give Republicans a

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court agreed on Wednesday to take up a dispute over a medication used in the most common method of abortion in the United States, its first abortion case since it overturned Roe v. Wade last year. The justices will hear appeals from the Biden administration and the maker of the drug mifepristone asking the high court to reverse an appellate ruling that would cut off

Laura Ungar (AP NEWS) - Regulators on Friday approved two gene therapies for sickle cell disease that doctors hope can cure the painful, inherited blood disorder that afflicts mostly Black people in the U.S. The Food and Drug Administration said the one-time treatments can be used for patients 12 and older with severe forms of the disease. One, made by Vertex Pharmaceuticals and CRISPR Therapeutics, is the first approved therapy

WASHINGTON (AP) - Scared for her life after Rudy Giuliani and other Donald Trump allies falsely accused her of fraud, former Georgia election worker Wandrea "Shaye" Moss told jurors Tuesday she seldom leaves her home, suffers from panic attacks and battles nightmares brought on by a barrage of threatening and racist messages. Wandrea "Shaye" Moss took the witness stand on the second day of the defamation trial that will determine

Kevin Hardy - Stateline Andy Gipson gets concerned even when American allies such as the Netherlands and Germany invest in large swaths of Mississippi's farmland. "It just bothers me at a gut level," he said. For Gipson, Mississippi's commissioner of agriculture and commerce, the growing trend of foreign ownership could threaten what he views as the state's most valuable asset: the land that grows its forests, rice and cotton. "It