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Cancer Researchers Begin Large Long-Term Study of Black Women

7 June 2024 at 05:06
The American Cancer Society hopes to enroll 100,000 women and follow them for three decades to discover what’s causing higher case and death rates.

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Participants in the study will be surveyed about their behaviors, environmental exposures and life experiences.

The Algebra Problem: How Middle School Math Became a National β€˜Flashpoint’

22 May 2024 at 11:35
Top students can benefit greatly by being offered the subject early. But many districts offer few Black and Latino eighth graders a chance to study it.

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How to make algebra more equitable is a puzzle districts across the country have struggled to solve.

Ed Dwight Goes to Space 63 Years After Training as 1st Black Astronaut

19 May 2024 at 18:34
Edward Dwight was among the first pilots that the United States was training to send to space in 1961, but he was passed over. On Sunday, he finally made it on a Blue Origin flight.

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Edward Dwight was one of six people who went to space aboard the Mission NS-25 crew capsule from Blue Origin on Sunday. Upon exiting, he raised his arm and said, β€œLong time coming.”
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