Rural residents ages 50 and older experienced higher rates of depression than urban residents in 2020 and estimates varied by race.
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As we have come to the close of another empowering Black History Month, once again we are hit squarely with a reminder that there are still some places and institutions where African Americans/blacks have yet to receive full recognition.
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With daily media reports of racial and cultural conflicts around the world and here at home, it is well worth noting a recent story about a multiracial group of clergy that has begun work on racial reconciliation in America. It took place with a meeting at the Potter’s House, ministry headquarters…
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Struggling to break the color barrier in the Professional Golfers Association five decades ago, Charlie Sifford got a tip from Jackie Robinson, who had done the same thing for Major League Baseball. "You can’t be going after these people who call you names with a golf club,” Robinson told him. “If…
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Just like the rest of us, the magnificent thoroughbreds that will be running in the Kentucky Derby eventually will grow old. But unlike us, racehorses don't have Social Security, Medicare and 401(k) plans to rely on in their retirement years, and they don't have control over their own fate.
On the afternoon of Feb. 1, 1960, 19-year-old Franklin McCain - accompanied by David Richmond, Joseph McNeil, and Ezell Blair Jr., three of his North Carolina A&T classmates - walked into an  F.W. Woolworth store in Greensboro, N.C. After buying a few small items, he and the others sat down at the…
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At 86, distance runner Joy Johnson was a remarkable athlete.
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It was quite a contrast.
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Is there bias in the U.S. criminal justice system? Unpublished data from a recent Gallup poll point up marked differences in views divided not only by race but also by age.
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Every week in America, thousands of people line up to compete in one of the hundreds of running races that happen across the country.
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