Tag: Mississippi
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The more than a dozen states where controversial laws BAN transgender people from legally transitioning
[ad_1] Over a dozen Republican-led states are advancing bills that could deny transgender people legal recognition. The pieces of legislation say there are only two sexes, male and female, that are defined based on what genitals the person was born with Kansas enacted a law last year that ended legal recognition of trans identities, meaning people…
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“Freedom on My Mind”: A Symphony of Voices for Civil Rights
[ad_1] What’s the problem with talking heads? What other part of the body do critics want to see talking? I’m suspicious of movies that rely on silence as a sign of mystique; all too often they involve depicting the poor or the unschooled as lacking language. In movies, sound and image are equals, and talk…
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Operation wipe out cervical cancer: How doctors plan to eliminate disease that is on the rise by 2033
[ad_1] Doctors are racing to cure cervical cancer in less than ten years, calling it that only cancer ‘that we can say we can eliminate.’ Cervical cancer is the fourth-most common form of the disease in women. However, unlike most other cancers on the rise, doctors know what causes it. Most of the time, it’s…
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Lonely night: Interactive map reveals how many Americans will spend Christmas alone in YOUR state
[ad_1] Millions of Americans will be celebrating on their own this Christmas amid a nationwide loneliness epidemic, a survey has revealed. A new poll showed that around 19 million Americans are due to spend Christmas alone this year, which is one in 14 adults. Oregon has the highest rate of people celebrating alone on Christmas day at…
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Rates of syphilis in Salt Lake County have surged by ‘alarming’ 800% in four years
[ad_1] Rates of syphilis in a Utah county have exploded by 800 percent in just four years, and rates are expected to keep climbing. State health officials warned that the sexually transmitted disease is on the rise in Salt Lake County, Utah, at an ‘alarming’ rate, particularly in women of childbearing age. This increases the…