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The medical company being sued by the family of Henrietta Lacks has filed a motion calling for the dismissal of the suit, claiming it’s “decades too stale to proceed.” Lacks, a Black woman, was diagnosed with cervical cancer and died at 31 in 1951. However, before her death, doctors at Johns …

MONTGOMERY, AL – OCTOBER 26: Civil rights attorney Fred Gray, left, and Claudette Colvin, 82, listens during a press conference after Colvin petitioned for her juvenile record to be expunged at the Montgomery County Family Court on October 26, 2021, in Montgomery, Alabama. On March 2, 1955, Colvin was arrested …

A glimpse of my phone’s photo roll: cherubic child proudly displaying the treats he snuck into the grocery basket; black sedan with no license plates; kid in restaurant sticking his tongue out; red Nissan Altima with Florida plates blocking crosswalk; child posing with friend on Coney Island boardwalk; white Chevy …

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Want to make this holiday season one that your loved ones will remember? The BE Gift Guide can help with that. Our 2021 Holiday Gift Guide brings together the gifts that offer something unique to each individual you will be gifting. Whether you are shopping for an avid reader, foodie, or …

U.K. government officials have placed a temporary export bar on an “extremely rare” 17th-century painting of a Black woman and a white woman sitting side-by-side as equals. The artwork titled, “Allegorical Painting of Two Ladies, English School,” was created around the year 1650 and has been valued at  £272,800 euros, …

In this June 28, 2020 file photo, Texas’ Attorney General Ken Paxton waits on the flight line for the arrival of Vice President Mike Pence at Love Field in Dallas. A longshot lawsuit that President Donald Trump called “the big one” in his effort to subvert the will of the …

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Greek mythology tells us that not long after a young and incautious Persephone was first taken into the underworld by Hades, she made a gaffe of epic proportions by sampling the cuisine. Down in the dirt, she munched on a pomegranate, binding herself eternally to a subterranean life. In this …

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