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Tennis Great Serena Williams On Pregnancy, Power And Race

(CNN) -- Serena Williams may be about to become a mother for the first time, but the tennis great has admitted to having an...

Seattle-based Hydroplane Driver Brent Hall Takes Third Place At Seafair Cup

It's been a good summer for hydroplane driver Brent Hall. Hall, a native of Seattle, Washington, placed third at the Grand Prix World Seafair...

Refugee Olympic Team: Where Are They Now?

By Henry Young CNN (CNN) -- They came, they saw, their stories inspired the world. Ten athletes — victims of unimaginable hardship, forced to leave their homes...

Sickle Cell Disease In The Black Community

By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Contributor You really don’t know a company, until you know the people who work there. Those were the introductory words of National...

The Bennett Foundation To Support 100 Girls In Africa

Seattle Seahawk and Super Bowl Champion Michael Bennett and his wife, Pele, have partnered with the African-led global movement iamtheCODE to help get 100...

Environmental Racism Persists

By Glenn Ellis (Trice Edney Wire) - Environmental racism is the disproportionate impact of environmental hazards on people of color.  The lead poisoning of children...

Can The Floyd Mayweather vs. Conor McGregor Fight Live Up To The Hype?

By Motez Bishara CNN (CNN) -- "It's official!" The two words published on Floyd Mayweather's Instagram account on Tuesday were all it took to send the sporting...

Black AIDS Institute Announces “30 Days of HIV” Campaign

The Black AIDS Institute, the nation’s only think tank focused on the impact of HIV upon Black communities, has announced a national, digital-community campaign,...

Serena Williams Slams Ilie Nastase Over ‘Racist’ Comments

By Danielle Rossingh for CNN (CNN) -- Serena Williams called Ilie Nastase's comments about her pregnancy "racist" and offered her "full support" to the International Tennis...

Endometriosis – The Common Story Of Pain, Suffering Few Know About

By Autumn Dalton Howard University News Service WASHINGTON -- By the time Victoria Makinde finished her story of pain, unanswered questions and confusion, there were tears...

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University Of Washington President Calls For Pro-Palestinian Tent Camp To Break...

After protests escalated at the University of Washington – with “offensive graffiti across multiple buildings all over campus, some quite clearly both antisemitic and violent” – the school’s president is calling again for the voluntary dismantling of a pro-Palestinian encampment on the Seattle campus.