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Thursday, August 14, 2025
TopicAfrican american

Topic: african american

Natural Black hair is back in fashion in America in the coronavirus era

As salons and barbershops, where Black Americans got their hair straightened or treated, have been shut for months, people have been pushed go natural and buy products for it.

Chadwick Boseman’s death a sign colorectal cancer has increased in people below 50

The American Cancer Society estimates that in 2020, about 147,950 people will be diagnosed with colorectal cancer.

Air pollution is a public health problem also related to racial injustice

In sum, African-Americans are hit especially hard by air pollution, even though they cause relatively little of it.

As the world debates racist Gandhi, African-Americans had yearned for a Black Gandhi

No one who studies Gandhi should defend his views on race and caste, but that doesn't make him less of an important figure.

Purge rap music of bad language & drugs, Russian President Putin tells his govt

Now, Canada wants to end arms deal with Saudi Arabia, and 2016 Russian campaign targeted African-Americans during the US presidential election.

To really make a difference on race National Geographic needs to get a black woman editor

Indian and American editors should do more than just acknowledge the race and caste problem. It is a little late for National Geographic to do that.

On Camera

Trump is swinging on Russia again. What this means for Europe’s security architecture

The dynamics between Europe and Russia have gone so south that mending fences looks like an uphill task—even as the US swings between sanctions and olive branches.

Slashing GST on waste can unlock Rs 1.8 lakh crore, high tax hurting circular economy goals—CSE

Centre for Science and Environment in new report makes case for rationalising GST on waste material, saying most informal operators can’t afford high tax & it also hinders recycling.

Hit by mortar shell, but still fighting—BSF heroes of Op Sindoor honoured with gallantry medals

President of India has honoured 16 BSF personnel with gallantry medals for show of exemplary courage in the 87-hour ‘war’ between India and Pakistan that followed the launch of Op Sindoor.

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.