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NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 06: Colin Kaepernick attends The 2019 Met Gala Celebrating Camp: Notes on Fashion at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 06, 2019 in New York City. (Photo by Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images)
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Colin Kaepernick gets in on Wall Street’s hottest trend

By Allison Morrow, CNN Business SPAC-ERNICK Colin Kaepernick, the activist and former NFL quarterback, is the latest high-profile investor to get in on the SPAC craze. A SPAC, or special purpose acquisition company, is a very trendy way to take a company public. Rather than go through the expensive, time-consuming process of an IPO, private

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MIAMI, FLORIDA - JANUARY 13: Armando Bravo receives a COVID-19 vaccine from a healthcare worker at a drive-thru site at Tropical Park on January 13, 2021 in Miami, Florida. Miami-Dade County is distributing a limited number of coronavirus vaccines at the Tropical Park site, by appointment only, for seniors 65 years of age and older. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

With coronavirus variants here, should I still get the vaccine? Dr. Wen weighs in.

By Katia Hetter, CNN While vaccinations are ramping up across the United States and many parts of the world, some preliminary studies have suggested the current vaccines may not be as effective with emerging coronavirus variants. With companies looking to develop booster shots that target these variants, some have asked — should I wait before

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Delegate Stacey Plaskett (D-V.I.), a House Impeachment Manager, walks through the the U.S. Capitol Rotunda to the Senate Chambers, in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, February 10, 2021. House Impeachment Managers today began prosecuting their case against former President Trump kicking off 16 hours of arguments entitled to both sides. (Graeme Sloan/Sipa USA)(Sipa via AP Images)

Impeachment managers slated to wrap up their case against Trump at Senate trial

By Clare Foran, Jeremy Herb and Manu Raju, CNN House impeachment managers will finish arguing their case on Thursday that former President Donald Trump incited an insurrection one day after they showed violent and disturbing video footage of the attack on the US Capitol as they urged senators to convict at the Senate trial. Never-before-seen

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Motley became the lead trial attorney for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and began arguing desegregation and fair housing cases across the country. The person at the NAACP who hired her? Future Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.

BLACK HISTORY MONTH: CONSTANCE BAKER MOTLEY

By Nicole Chavez, CNN Constance Baker Motley graduated from her Connecticut high school with honors, but her parents, immigrants from the Caribbean, couldn’t afford to pay for college. So Motley, a youth activist who spoke at community events, made her own good fortune. A philanthropist heard one of her speeches and was so impressed he

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Double masking can block 92% of infectious particles, CDC says

By Keri Enriquez Double masking can significantly improve protection, new data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows. Researchers found that layering a cloth mask over a medical procedural mask, such as a disposable blue surgical mask, can block 92.5% of potentially infectious particles from escaping by creating a tighter fit and

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SSU National Freedom Day observance kicks off Black History Month in covid conscious way

by:Destin Howard, February 1st marks the start of Black History Month but is it also recognized as National Freedom Day, which Savannah State University’s founding president Major Richard R. Wright, Sr. had a significant role in establishing. February 1st marks the start of Black History Month but is it also recognized as National Freedom Day,

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Sneakers designed in honor of Obama to go on sale for $25,000

By Chandelis Duster, CNN  They’re not the Air Obamas, but one sneakerhead with a lot of cash will have an opportunity this week to purchase an exclusive pair of basketball kicks made in honor of the 44th President. The unique pair of Nike Hyperdunks will be sold on the website of Sotheby’s auction house Friday

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3M Co. 8210Plus N95 particulate respirators are arranged for a photograph in New York, U.S., on Wednesday, July 29, 2020. Leading Democrats in Congress, frustrated with what they say are inadequate protections against Covid-19 in air travel, introduced legislation to require the federal government to mandate face masks on flights and in airports. Photographer: Angus Mordant/Bloomberg via Getty Images
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What you need to know about face masks as protection against coronavirus

By Theresa Waldrop, CNN  Let’s face it: Even as more people get vaccinated against Covid-19, everyone but small children will still need to wear a face mask for the foreseeable future. Sure, everyone is tired of wearing them. But as studies have shown, and as Dr. Anthony Fauci has pointed out many times, masks are

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Drew helped develop America's first large-scale blood banking program in the 1940s, earning him accolades as 'the father of the blood bank." Credit: Alfred Eisenstaedt/The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty Images

Black History Month: Charles Richard Drew

By Sydney Walton, CNN Anyone who has ever had a blood transfusion owes a debt to Charles Richard Drew, whose immense contributions to the medical field made him one of the most important scientists of the 20th century. Drew helped develop America’s first large-scale blood banking program in the 1940s, earning him accolades as “the

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WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 05: U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the national economy and the need for his administration's proposed $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief legislation in the State Dining Room at the White House on February 05, 2021 in Washington, DC. Biden hosted lawmakers from both parties at the White House this week in an effort to push his pandemic relief plan forward. (Photo by Stefani Reynolds-Pool/Getty Images)
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Biden and Democrats prepare to act fast on judges, having learned lesson from Trump

By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter President Joe Biden had been in office less than a week when a federal judge issued a nationwide injunction blocking one of his first immigration-related actions. The order was a victory for Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who crowed “WE WON” on Twitter. In fact, Paxton, a

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