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More Covid-19 boosters are on the horizon. But not everyone will need one, experts say

By Travis Caldwell, Advisers from the US Food and Drug Administration voted unanimously to recommend emergency authorization of a booster dose of Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine, and a day later did so again for a booster of Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine. The group voted Friday to authorize a booster shot of Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine for Americans 18 and older at least two months after they get their first shots. Johnson & Johnson said studies showed boosting at two or six months can bring effectiveness up to 94%. If the FDA follows its advisers’ recommendations, more than 90% of people vaccinated with the Johnson

Actress Lili Bernard files lawsuit against Bill Cosby

By Laura Ly, Actress Lili Bernard filed a lawsuit against Bill Cosby on Thursday, alleging he drugged and raped her in Atlantic City in or around August 1990, according to court documents. In her lawsuit, Bernard alleges that she met the comedian on the set of “The Cosby Show” and that in July 1990 he offered to be a mentor for her acting career. It adds that Cosby asked her detailed questions about her life and told her he would view her as if she were his own daughter, and warned her of “the sexual pressures of Hollywood,” the suit alleges. Cosby allegedly told

OSHA submits vaccine rule to the Office of Management and Budget, jump-starting review process

By Kaitlan Collins, The Occupational Safety and Health Administration, which falls under the Labor Department, has submitted the text of a new vaccine rule for large employers to the Office of Management and Budget, bringing the emergency standard announced by President Joe Biden last month one step closer to taking effect. “The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has been working expeditiously to develop an emergency temporary standard that covers employers with 100 or more employees to ensure their workers are fully vaccinated or undergo weekly testing to protect employees from the spread of coronavirus in the workplace,” a Labor Department spokesman said Tuesday. “On

A statue of civil rights leader Mary McLeod Bethune is getting a place in the US Capitol. She’s replacing a Confederate general

By Christina Zdanowicz, A larger-than-life marble statue of civil rights pioneer Mary McLeod Bethune is replacing one of a Confederate general in the US Capitol’s Statuary Hall. The daughter of former slaves, Bethune became an influential Black educator and civil and women’s rights leader. She opened a boarding school for Black children in 1904, which later became Bethune-Cookman University. Bethune will make history when she becomes the first African American to have a state-commissioned statue in Statuary Hall, according to a press release from Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. The governor requested the replacement of the General Edmund Kirby Smith statue in 2019. “Dr. Bethune embodies the very

Civil rights leader Timuel Black dies at 102

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By Carma Hassan and Christina Carrega, Civil rights leader Timuel Black died Wednesday at the age of 102, according to a statement from the University of Chicago where he obtained a master’s degree in 1954. “He marched with Martin Luther King Jr., campaigned for Chicago mayor Harold Washington, mentored a young Barack Obama and helped bring the Obama Presidential Center to the South Side,” the university said of the civil rights leader in a statement. Black also helped end segregation in the Chicago Public Schools district through his work as an educator and administrator, the university said. Black is survived by

Lawsuit filed in Florida over a mural showing city’s first Black female firefighter depicted with a White face

By Gregory Lemos and Melissa Alonso, The Boynton Beach City Commission will meet this week to discuss a lawsuit filed on behalf of the city’s first Black female firefighter over a mural where she was inaccurately depicted with a White face. “The City Commission will meet in a closed-door session to discuss the litigation. It is not a public meeting,” City Manager Lori LaVerriere confirmed to CNN in an email Sunday. Latosha Clemons filed the lawsuit in April against the City of Boynton Beach. According to the complaint, a mural intended to honor her and others for their service to

Covid-19 infections are declining in the US. But hospitalizations are still high in some hot spots

By Travis Caldwell, While the rate of Covid-19 infections nationwide is slowing, health care systems in some parts of the country are struggling with hospital wings still packed with patients. Montana, for instance, is facing new highs this week in coronavirus hospitalizations, with 533 Covid-19 patients in hospitals as of Wednesday, according to the US Department of Health and Human Services. This eclipses the high set in November, before vaccines were readily available, according to HHS and data from the Covid Tracking Project. The percentages of ICU beds used for Covid-19 patients in Montana, along with neighboring Idaho and Wyoming, are among the highest in

Successful Black American-Owned Business Leaders Unfairly Targeted

By Benjamin Chavis There is an old African proverb that captures one of the challenges that too many financially successful Black-owned business leaders face today in America. That proverb is “Your earned riches may engender envy and jealous criticism but be not dismayed by the foolishness of the envious.” Across the nation as business owners are attempting to recover from the COVID-19 global pandemic, African America business leaders who are defying the odds with their financial success are often targeted by “mainstream media” and others who summarily and unfairly castigate Black business leaders economic achievements. Is this syndrome racially-motivated? The

A slavery petition was the latest racist incident at this school. Parents and lawmakers are fed up

By Evan McMorris-Santoro and Linh Tran, Nearly two weeks after a racist petition to bring back slavery circulated at her daughter’s school, Julie Stutterheim is still angry. She says it was yet another example of a racist incident at Park Hill South High School in the suburbs of Kansas City, Missouri. “She was very upset about it. My daughter’s Ethiopian,” Stutterheim told CNN this week. Her daughter has encountered racism firsthand, Stutterheim says and “the more she talked about this, the more upset she got.” Stutterheim did what any concerned parent would do and reached out to the school to

Officials at Fort Hood are searching for a missing soldier

By Dakin Andone, Officials at Fort Hood in Texas are searching for Pfc. Jennifer Sewell, a soldier who’s been missing since last Thursday. Sewell was last seen leaving her barracks around 4 p.m. (5 p.m. ET) October 7, according to a statement by the Fort Hood Directorate of Emergency Services (DES), which said she failed to report to work that day. Law enforcement, Sewell’s chain-of-command and her family have been unable to contact her in the time since. “Initial investigation appears that Sewell left for unknown reasons on her own accord,” the statement said, noting she does not own a vehicle. Officials

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