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BREAKING: A former high school student — who fought for years to beat a police ticket that accused her of stealing a classmate’s AirPods — is suing the city of Naperville, IL.

The ticket fine was at most $500. The lawsuit seeks damages of $20 million.

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This was a pleasure to write and to discuss important policy considerations for #HealthEquity . Thank you for letting me join this stellar team, guys ✨️
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Love this SO much. Congrats ❤️👏🏽💯

I will never tire of retweeting my excitement for this queen! uché blackstock, md keep shining, sis! Proud of you!

ONLY $100K EACH???!!!

“When I was having my baby, they made sure I had formula, clothes, and a car seat. It’s not just bonding people out, they really help.” 

Nia is a Black Mama we bailed out for $50,000.

Read more about her story 👇🏾

#FreeBlackMamas ❤️

Humbled and honored! Thank you for lifting up LEGACY and its message! Love you.

Hunger is reaching catastrophic levels in Sudan.

Over 4 million children are now at risk of severe malnutrition.

UNICEF and partners are on the ground delivering extensive nutrition screening, treatment and supplies.

The affordability of Dollar General is right there in the name, but it costs communities fresh grocery stores + the economic and health benefits they bring to an area. Here’s how one Mississippi native is growing a fresh grocery oasis from familiar ground. capitalbnews.org/dollar-stores-…

The situation in #Gaza remains beyond catastrophic.

What is needed now more than ever is a ceasefire and to get aid flowing into the Strip.

Ever since I was a kid, I grew up listening to NPR and dreamed that I could work for them one day.
I am honored to announce that I'll be interning with NPR through Ida B. Wells Society 's Summer 2024 investigative internship program.

We must realise that health does not start in hospitals or clinics, but in homes, schools, streets, markets, workplaces and our environment – in the air people breathe, the food they eat, and the conditions in which they live and work.

In October 2023, several 10th-grade girls at Westfield In October 2023, several 10th-grade girls at Westfield High School in New Jersey told administrators that boys in their class used AI software to create and then circulate sexually explicit images of them. Via The New York Times.

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We had a blast discussing how we can reimagine global health journals!

Intentionally diversify, decenter the traditional centers, and re-center on the peripheries

Thanks Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá Dr. Catherine Kyobutungi & Julia Robinson

UPDATE West Bank, Palestine:

Raids by Israeli forces in Jenin have left at least 8 people dead, including an MoH surgeon from MSF-supported Khalil Suleiman Hospital, Dr. Osayd Jabarin.

He was shot on his way to work.

The raids are still underway with 20 others also injured.

Worth re-reading nearly 2 years later! Hits different. nytimes.com/2022/06/22/mag…

Watch this video, then RSVP for Physicians for a National Health Program's Webinar with Elizabeth Warren: heroes.win/RSVP

Zach and other physicians across the country are speaking out against the harms of Medicare (Dis)Advantage. #ReclaimMedicare

Norway, Ireland and Spain have recognized a Palestinian state in a historic move apnews.com/article/norway…

In Killing the Black Body (1997), I wrote about proposals within the medical profession to sterilize Black women with sickle cell disease. This must-read article exposes how this eugenicist legacy of racism, entangled with sexism & ableism, continues today. #ReproductiveJustice