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Queen Bey and Yale: The Ivy League university is set to offer a course on Beyoncé and her legacy

SUSAN HAIGH Associated PressNovember 13, 2024

With a record 99 Grammy nominations and acclaim as one of the most influential artists in music history, pop superstar Beyoncé and her expansive cultural legacy will be the subject of a new course at Yale University next year.

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Henrietta Lacks Estate Sues Company Using her ‘Stolen’ Cells

Michael Kunzelman Associated PressOctober 5, 2021

The estate of Henrietta Lacks sued a biotechnology company on Monday, accusing it of selling cells that doctors at Johns Hopkins Hospital took from the Black woman in 1951 without her knowledge or consent as part of “a racially unjust medical system.“

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First, she was a survivor: #MeToo’s Burke tells her story

Jocelyn Noveck, AP National WriterSeptember 16, 2021

That’s what Tarana Burke was thinking _ indeed, hoping _ when she first found out the phrase “MeToo” was suddenly circulating online in October 2017, in the wake of shocking revelations about Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein.