Lorain County nonprofit Pathways Enrichment Center hosted a 'Physicians Speak Series' event Dec. 16 at Mt. Zion Fellowship Hall in Oberlin. Managing blood pressure and healthy cooking were the topics of focus at the event that featured two main speakers.
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The Texas state Capitol in Austin, on Thursday, May 27, 2021. Texas Democrats staged a last-minute walkout Saturday, May 29, 2021, to kill an elections bill that would have restricted voting statewide.MATTHEW BUSCH, STR / NYTShow MoreShow Less
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Gary Bledsoe, president of the Texas NAACP, left, shakes hands with State Rep. Ron Reynolds, D - Missouri City, after they spoke at a news conference against Senate Bill 7, known as the Election Integrity Protection Act, at the Capitol in Austin, Texas, on Sunday May 30, 2021.Jay Janner, MBR / Associated PressShow MoreShow Less
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State Rep. Nicole Collier, D- Fort Worth, the chair of the Legislative Black Caucus, speaks at a news conference at the Capitol on Sunday May 30, 2021, against Senate Bill 7, known as the Election Integrity Protection Act.Jay Janner, MBR / Associated PressShow MoreShow Less
All they could get was a temporary win. But the lawmakers said taking the extraordinary measure of breaking quorum was justified by the harm they felt their mostly Black and Hispanic constituents would face under the GOP’s voting bill.