Reclaiming Black: From Negro to African American Word Shift
The article traces the reclaiming of the term black from its pejorative roots to its prideful use in the 1960s and beyond. It cites Joan Morgan and Mary Frances Berry, notes the rise of African American usage led by Jesse Jackson, and mentions 2011 polling on term preference with black leading at 42 percent.
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Jamaica
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National Urban Coalition
NBC
Wall Street Journal
Girl receives first esophagus transplant in Maine
Nine year old Alannah Shevenell in Hollis, Maine, returns home after a groundbreaking multi organ transplant at Boston Children's Hospital. Surgeons replaced a tumor with a stomach, liver, spleen, small intestine, pancreas and part of an esophagus from a donor child, marking a historic procedure and the largest organ swap performed at once.
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Man freed after blood evidence clears suspect in relatives' deaths
Eder Herrera, 24, was released after forensic tests showed a blood spot in his vehicle was not blood. Prosecutors plan to charge Itzcoatl Ocampo, 23, with fatal harm in a string of incidents that killed Herrera's brother and mother and harmed four homeless men. Ocampo, a former Marine and Esperanza High School graduate, faces arraignment Monday. Herrera was briefly held on immigration grounds and will seek relief with an immigration judge.
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