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Sunday, April 12, 2026
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.

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Congress was committed to alcohol ban law without being practical: MA Venkata Rao

Since the bulk of citizens did not regard drinking as a crime, they had no respect for the prohibition laws and did not cooperate with the police, wrote MV Venkata Rao in 1962.

Fuel shock hits Asia’s rice bowl as farmers cut planting

War-driven surge in fuel and fertilizer costs forces farmers across Southeast Asia to delay harvests, scale back sowing and risk lower output.

Iran’s Shahed vs US’s LUCAS—The drone arithmetic reshaping the West Asia war

From Kyiv to the Gulf, Iran’s Shahed rewrote the rules of aerial warfare. Now, the US has its own copy of the cheap drones, LUCAS.

The world’s in a flux. India must reform, consolidate & build a strong economy

We now live in a world order that will keep shifting. India must use this window. This also means we remain disciplined enough not to be knee-jerked into reacting to what Pakistan sees as its moment in the sun.