NEW YORK (AP) — Isabel Wilkerson s “Caste,” an acclaimed biography of Malcolm X and fiction by Martin Amis and the late Randall Kenan are among this year s finalists for National
NEW YORK (AP) — Screenwriter Walter Bernstein, among the last survivors of Hollywood’s anti-Communist blacklist whose Oscar-nominated script for “The Front” drew upon his years of being unable to work
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Some 3,400 Black athletes played in the Negro Leagues from 1920 to 1948, but it took 100 years for Major League Baseball to recognize them as major-league-caliber players and to enter their achievements in the historical record. Author Andrea Williams loves the sport, but early on, she found herself even more curious about the business that makes it work. Her curiosity led her to discover a little-known Black American woman named Effa Manley, the co-owner and business manager of the Negro Leaguesâ Newark Eagles. Williamsâ new nonfiction middle-grades book,
Baseballâs Leading Lady: Effa Manley and the Rise and Fall of the Negro Leagues, shows Manley as a pioneer who understood the value of the leagues, while others insisted it was inferior.Â
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Genuity Science Wins 2021 BIG Innovation Award for Novel Genome Sequencing Approach
January 12, 2021 GMT
BOSTON, Jan. 12, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Genuity Science, a genomics and data-sourcing, analytics and insights organization, today announced that it has been named a winner in the 2021 BIG Innovation Awards presented by the Business Intelligence Group. The BIG innovation Awards recognize those organizations and people who bring new ideas to life, and change the way we experience the world.
Genuity Science was honored for placing innovation front and center as it continues to change the drug development process by using a combination of population-scale genetics; a scalable, flexible software platform that addresses genomic big data challenges; and a new, groundbreaking approach to artificial intelligence (AI). In collaboration with Professor Michael Simons and his team at Yale University Me