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Back in 2014, then-First Lady Michelle Obama sparked a debate about what it meant to be mistaken for a retail clerk after she suggested allegedly being mistaken for a Target employee during a 2011 visit to a Target location in Alexandria, Va. constituted racism.
She told People magazine during a December 2014 interview on how the Obamas dealt with their “own racist experiences” that “during that wonderfully publicized trip I took to Target, not highly disguised, the only person who came up to me in the store was a woman who asked me to help her take something off a shelf.”
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Kansas City COVID Vaxx & Mask Update
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Children s Mercy Hospital is vaccinating 12-15-year-olds starting on Saturday. Kids in this age range will receive Pfizer s COVID-19 vaccine as they are the only company approved by the FDA to do so. Children s Mercy Hospital has two vaccination clinics on Saturday.
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PLATTE COUNTY, MO. (KCTV) - The Platte County Health Department on Saturday announced that it s ending its mask mandate. It s the latest jurisdiction in the metro area to do away with its emergency order. Information via a news release: 1. Rescind all previous limits on business operations and gatherings under previous COVID-19 orders.
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Brittani James and Brandi Jackson are African American elite university trained doctors from Twinsburg, Ohio united beyond their identical twin bond, in their mission to dismantle the deep-rooted structural racism within the United States healthcare system.
The COVID-19 pandemic has let come to the forefront racial issues that have always existed within the medical industry in the country laying bare racially-based inequities and disparities in treatment between black women in particular and the white population.
Dr Brittani James shares her observations working as a doctor of internal medicine. I see my patients, I see them go to different hospitals. I see and understand that the standard of care that they get is less than. I see it. It s undeniable.