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ABOVE PHOTO: FILE – Icons for the smartphone apps TikTok and WeChat are seen on a smartphone screen in Beijing, in a Friday, Aug. 7, 2020 file photo. The Commerce Department said President Trump’s proposed ban of the apps WeChat and TikTok will go into effect Sunday, Sept. 20, to “safeguard the national security of…

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By Catherine Holecko   A lifestyle of family fitness requires a commitment from your whole team. It will be much easier for children to accept — maybe even embrace — changes in their eating habits and activity levels if they are not going it alone. These recommendations apply to families in which someone needs to…

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ABOVE PHOTO: A “promotora” (health promoter) from CASA, a Hispanic advocacy group, tries to enroll Latinos as volunteers to test a potential COVID-19 vaccine, at a farmers market in Takoma Park, Maryland on Sept. 9, 2020. Minority enrollment in studies of two shots has inched up in recent weeks, but even more is needed this…

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By Amy V. Simmons Voter education, participation and empowerment was front and center during the Poor People’s Campaign National Moral Monday Mass Assembly and Teach-In entitled “Voting is Power Unleashed!” which was live streamed from the Pullen Memorial Baptist Church located in Raleigh, North Carolina, on September 14. The training was led by Rev. Dr….

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ABOVE PHOTO: Sen.Harris greets Paulette Beale Harris, owner of Paul Beale’s Florist and her mother, with Rep. Dwight Evans (Photo/Webster Riddick)  Sen. Kamala Harris, the Democrats Vice Presidential nominee, came to West Oak Lane to share the vision that she and Joe Biden have for America and to spend some time with her “sisters.” By Denise Clay…

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By Linda S. Wallace Dear Cultural Coach: Senior citizens contribute to our society by volunteering, mentoring youth, caring for or raising grandchildren and holding full-time or part-time jobs. So why is it when we see them on TV, in films, or in the news they always seem to be sitting around in senior citizens’ centers…

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1959-1961 – Ginsburg becomes a law clerk with the US District Court, Southern District of New York; 1961-1963 – Ginsburg becomes a research associate and the associate director of the Project of International Procedure at Columbia Law School; 1963-1972 – Ginsburg becomes a professor at the Rutgers University School of Law. 1972-1980 – Ginsburg becomes the first woman to be…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg speaking at the Georgetown University Law Center campus in Washington. Ginsburg didn’t put on her judge’s robe without also fastening something around her neck. Ginsburg called her neckwear collars, or jabots, and they became part of her signature style, along with her glasses, lace gloves and fabric…

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ABOVE PHOTO: FILE- In this Aug. 3, 1993, file photo, then-Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg poses in her robe in her office at U.S. District Court in Washington. Earlier, the Senate voted 96-3 to confirm Bader as the 107th justice and the second woman to serve on the Supreme Court. Ruth Bader Ginsburg died at her…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Sheed (pictured left) and Moses (Photos courtesy Moses and Sheed) By Danaé Reid Earlier this year, I was fortunate enough to speak with the popular Philly collective group, HBC, who is  back again with a new project!  Two of the group’s members, Moses and Sheed, teamed up on their first joint album, and…

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