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San Francisco artist uses unconventional medium to comment on colorism in the Black community

A young San Francisco artist’s exhibit at the Museum of African Diaspora explores the issues surrounding beauty and skin color within the Black community, and it does so using a medium that was once used as a tool for discrimination. The paper is creased, crinkled and careworn. And despite the …

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4 children being treated at Cook Children’s after Fort Worth drive

FORT WORTH — Six people, including four children, were injured in a drive-by shooting Tuesday night in Fort Worth. Fort Worth Fire Department and MedStar officials say the shooting was reported around 7:30 p.m. at an apartment complex in the 3000 block of Las Vegas Trail.  “It makes me sick …

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Blood test shows 83% accuracy for detecting colorectal cancer, study finds

A blood test intended to detect colorectal cancer performed well in a clinical study, a step towards expanding options for screening the potentially deadly disease.  Published in the New England Journal of Medicine Wednesday, the study found the test correctly detected colorectal cancer in 83% of people confirmed to have …

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