At its core, Twitter hasn’t changed all that much in the past few years. For the most part, people use it the same as they always have — a mostly …
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Covid vaccine rollout gives CVS, Walgreens a chance to bring health care to communities of color
Dr. Virginia Banks, an infectious disease specialist, is part of a group of Black physicians and scientists who are focused on ways to solve health-care disparities. Dr. Virginia Banks Dr. …
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In Video: Stars unite to urge people from ethnic minority communities to get Covid vaccine
Stars including Meera Syal, Adil Ray and Nina Wadia have joined forces to counter coronavirus vaccination myths among ethnic minority communities. The video was co-ordinated by Adil Ray, who said …
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For West Bengal’s indigenous communities, farming innovations reduce dependence on forest reserves – India News , Firstpost
The situation was vastly different some years ago, when water was scarce, farming was not an option and the community was forced to venture into the forest to earn a …
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Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is promising to build a network of smart cities that won’t have any cars or roads. It’s called The Line, due to its arrangement …
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The need for widespread vaccination against Covid-19 is urgent — experts say about 60 percent of people need to be vaccinated to see the vaccine’s effect on the disease that …
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Bhutans hydropower exports flourish during lockdown, but for rural communities its a mixed blessing – Firstpost
By Dawa Gyelmo The pandemic may have shut down much of Bhutan’s public life, but its prime export, hydropower, has flourished. With early rainfall, Druk Green Power Corporation has recorded an …
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Last week, Facebook axed the biggest anti-vaccine group on its platform. “Stop Mandatory Vaccination,” which at one point had more than 200,000 followers, was a cesspool of anti-vaccine propaganda, where …
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Less than a week after Election Day, a spreadsheet titled “Battling Asian American Misinformation” began circulating in progressive Asian American social media circles, primarily among those of Vietnamese and Chinese …
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The myth of Thanksgiving, a tale of a peacemaking repast between white colonizers and Native Americans, has long been debunked for its historical inaccuracies. But to reckon with the holiday …