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Smoke and Mirrors: How Intoxicating Hemp Seeped Into the First Recreational Marijuana Market in the Country

The Advocate highlights social inequality through original stories and opinions, and content generated by fellow NNPA and other publications ...
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Trump Rollbacks Put Mental Health Coverage at Risk Nationwide

Millions of Americans are facing steeper barriers to mental health care as the Trump administration dismantles protections designed to hold insurers accountable. According to ProPublica, just months ...
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A Texas County Cuts Over 100 Polling Sites as Trump Attacks Mail-In Voting Nationally

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Four years on, here’s what total exclusion of women in Afghanistan looks like

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Nonprofit Explorer Adds Powerful Tools to Help You Research Organizations’ Financials

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. During the year’s busiest season of charitable giving, donors ...
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Quinn Minute: School recess was the best

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COMMENTARY: Bernie’s Busted Revolution

Turn out the lights, the party is over for Bernie Sanders. The “revolution” has been canceled! Words hurt and words were one thing that caused Sanders to suffer landslide losses in statewide political ...
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Wells Fargo Bank’s New Ad Campaign To Regain Customer Trust Does Not Appear to Include Black & Latino Newspapers

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Student Housing Operation Acquires ‘The Edge’ Community for More Access to UCF

Campus Advantage, an Austin-based provider of student housing management services, are putting new expansion plans into action. The company has said in the past that their investment strategy is to ...
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SA police dispute Marikana report

South Africa’s police chief has criticised a judge-led inquiry which blamed her officers for the killing of 34 miners in what became known as the Marikana massacre. Riah Phiyega said police management ...
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Sandra Bland dead for being “uppity”?

Written by Kevin Seraaj Sandra Bland was found dead in her cell at the Waller County Jail in Houston, Texas, just days after she was detained by police during a routine traffic stop for failing to ...
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FTC Report Confirms That Floridians Are At High Risk Of ID Theft

WASHINGTON, DC – New data confirms that Florida remains a hotspot in the national fraud epidemic, warned the National Consumers League today. According to the Federal Trade Commission’s ...