The Kissing Case: Two Black Boys Were Beaten And Jailed After A White Girl’s Kiss—More Than 65 Years Later, The Impact Remains
A bright, warm afternoon in late October 1958, in rural Monroe, North Carolina: two Black children, nine-year-old James Hanover Thompson and his eight-year-old friend David “Fuzzy” Simpson, were ...
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Air, soil, water and dust: New study focuses on long-term health impacts of LA wildfire pollution
A team of researchers say they want to look at what exposure to toxins from thousands of burned structures does to people ...
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Pollution Whiplash; New Report Shows Martinez Fire Smoke Did Contain Cancer Causing Chemicals
Residents of Martinez, California, are experiencing what can only be described as pollution whiplash. The devastating fire ...
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Where There Is Smoke
DAY AND NIGHT, NEW SMOKE is born. The weather has turned warmer, and the lack of rainfall prepares dried-out grasses and shrubs for fire. The burning begins in a few spots—unseen in the mountains—and ...
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Study challenges belief that vaping leads to youth smoking
A team of public health researchers found "very low-certainty evidence" to support a commonly held belief that nicotine ...