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Mulusew Bekele, director of program operations at African Services Committee based in New York City, supports the U.S. Census Bureau's efforts to collect more detailed data on black people's non-Hispanic origins on the 2020 census. "The more refined data, the better for public policy," he says.<em></em>

2020 Census Will Ask Black People About Their Exact Origins

People who mark "Black" for their race on the 2020 census will be asked about their origins. Many black immigrants can cite ties to a specific country, but some U.S.-born African-Americans cannot.

When Anne Soloviev, a retiree who lives in Washington, D.C., received a prescription to treat toenail fungus, she never thought to ask how much the medicine cost.

Financial Side Effects From A Prescription For Toenail Fungus

A prescription for a drug called Kerydin depleted one woman's health reimbursement account without her even knowing it. When should health care providers broach costs with patients?

A woman looks at 15 crosses posted on a hill above Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo. in remembrance of the 15 people who died during a shooting rampage at the school in 1999.

What Decades Of Covering School Shootings Has Taught Me

Each horrific school shooting offers painful lessons but few, if any, answers.

Cost, procrastination and a lack of insurance coverage are just a few of the reasons adults give health care providers for not getting vaccinated against shingles and other illnesses.

Shingles Is Nasty, And The New Vaccine Works Well. Why Do Adults Avoid Shots?

Beyond annual flu shots, older adults need protection against shingles, pneumonia, tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis, federal health officials say. But many aren't getting vaccinated.

A member of the National Guard checks on his colleague inside a Border Patrol Skybox near the U.S.-Mexico border in Hidalgo, Texas, in 2011. President Trump is calling for troops on the Southern border, something the past five presidents have all done on a limited basis.

President Trump Signs Proclamation To Send National Guard Troops To Mexican Border

The move has many precedents. Every president since Ronald Reagan has called on the National Guard for limited, temporary missions along the frontier.

Giving Antibiotics To Healthy Kids In Poor Countries: Good Idea Or Bad Idea?

Researchers administered doses of azithromycin to 190,238 children in sub-Saharan Africa. The death rate dropped, but fear of antibiotic resistance looms.

Asylum-seeker Allan Monga, 19, won Maine's Poetry Out Loud competition in March. But he's been barred from the national competition because he's not a citizen or permanent resident.

Maine Asylum-Seeker Fights For His Right To Poetry

Allan Monga won Maine's Poetry Out Loud competition last month, but the NEA barred him from the national stage because of his immigration status. Now he's suing for his right to participate.

Sweet Potato Pie served at the Sweet Home Cafe inside the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. When the museum opened in October 2016, the pie contained a twist, ginger. But customers used to more traditional Southern African-American preparations of the dish weren't having it. It just shows how tricky "authentic" food can be.

Don't Mess With The Sweet Potato Pie: A Museum Wrestles With 'Authentic' Black Menu

When the National Museum Of African American History and Culture's cafe tweaked traditional Southern black dishes, some customers weren't having it. It just shows how tricky "authentic" food can be.

Sara Payson Willis, known as Fanny Fern (1811-1872)

5 Best-Selling Female Writers You May Not Have Heard Of

Many extremely popular writers of the 19th century are now pretty much forgotten — and gone with the wind.

On Screen, 'Diary Of A Teenage Girl' Packs The Punch Of A Good Graphic Novel

The new film directed by Marielle Heller is a sexual coming-of-age story about a 15- year-old girl who loses her virginity to her mother's boyfriend. Critic David Edelstein has a review.

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