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Laurents Bañuelos-Benitez can count on one hand how many teachers of color he had while growing up in east Las Vegas.
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Laurents Bañuelos-Benitez can count on one hand how many teachers of color he had while growing up in east Las Vegas.
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Mike Smith answered his newsroom phone expecting to talk with a reader. That’s commonplace when his editorial cartoons are published in the Las Vegas Sun, as callers either reach out with a compliment or criticism.
In 1932, 600 African American men in Alabama took part in a medical study on syphilis, a sexually transmitted disease caused by bacteria. U.S. Public Health Service researchers told the participants—both with and without syphilis—that they were being treated for “bad blood,” a catch-all term for various ailments. But unbeknownst to them, some participants were denied any treatment at all.
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Minority groups have been affected by COVID-19 at disproportionately higher rates than their white counterparts in Southern Nevada and, on Friday, Gov. Steve Sisolak announced a plan intended to rever ......We hope you appreciate our content. Subscribe today to continue reading this story, and all of our stories. to traditionally marginalized groups.
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Minority groups have been affected by COVID-19 at disproportionately higher rates than their white counterparts in Southern Nevada and, on Friday, Gov. Steve Sisolak announced a plan intended to reverse inequities in distributing the vaccine to traditionally marginalized groups.
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Minority groups have been affected by COVID-19 at disproportionately higher rates than their white counterparts in Southern Nevada and, on Friday, Gov. Steve Sisolak announced a plan intended to reverse inequities in distributing the vaccine to traditionally marginalized groups.
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Minority groups have been affected by COVID-19 at disproportionately higher rates than their white counterparts in Southern Nevada and, on Friday, Gov. Steve Sisolak announced a plan intended to reverse inequities in distributing the vaccine to traditionally marginalized groups.
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Minority groups have been affected by COVID-19 at disproportionately higher rates than their white counterparts in Southern Nevada and, on Friday, Gov. Steve Sisolak announced a plan intended to reverse inequities in distributing the vaccine to traditionally marginalized groups.
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Cox Communications is celebrating Black History Month by honoring four Southern Nevadans who each have a long history of making a difference in our community.
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The Mob Museum will sponsor a Feb. 17 program that will look back at the role African-American residents have played in the development of Las Vegas and look forward to what might come next.
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An Australia-based buyer has bought the land where the Las Vegas' first racially integrated hotel-casino used to sit.