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The makeup giant shut down stores across the U.S. for an hour so its 16,000 employees could attend an “inclusivity workshop.” SZA tweeted about being racially profiled at a Sephora outlet in Calabasas, California. An employee called security on the R&B artist while she was trying to buy makeup from fellow singer Rhianna’s popular brand. “Can a bitch cop her fenty in peace er whut?” The retail chain also faced accusations of racism in 2017 when a video of black customers accusing a white saleswoman of racial profiling went viral. In a 2018 HuffPost article titled “Meek Mills said last month that he was turned away from a hotel simply because he is black. Sephora wouldn’t provide much detail about its one-hour training session. …

Graeme said he and his doctor initially thought his watery eye was a symptom of conjunctivitis or “dry eye.”  (Caters News Agency) He claims even doctors initially thought it was a dry eye condition before realizing it was cancer. WOMAN CLAIMS BOTCHED ACRYLIC NAIL JOB NEARLY COST HER A FINGER: ‘I’LL NEVER GET MY NAILS DONE AGAIN’ Graeme, a physiotherapist, was eventually diagnosed with a cancerous tumor in his nasal lining in 2011, which he has dubbed “The Alien”. Since then, he has undergone almost 30 operations and now wears a prosthetic face-piece to help him breathe. “When doctors told me that they needed to remove part of my nose to get rid of the cancer, they said there was a …

Judge Michael Stelzer, a circuit court judge in St. Louis, issued a temporary restraining order, blocking Missouri from revoking Planned Parenthood’s operating license until another hearing takes place, which is currently “Today is a victory for women across Missouri, but this fight is far from over,” said Planned Parenthood President and CEO Leana Wen. “We have seen just how vulnerable access to abortion care is here ― and in the rest of the country. We are glad that the governor has been prevented from putting women’s health and lives in danger ― for now ― and call on him to stop this egregious politicalization of public health in an attempt to ban all safe, legal abortion care in the state.” …

Scientists have long debated whether the dispersal of modern humans across the globe helped kill off Neanderthals, either directly through conflict or indirectly through the spread of disease. “The disappearance of the Neanderthal population is an exciting subject — imagine a human group that has lived for thousands of years and is very well-adapted to its environment, and then disappears,” study senior author Silvana Condemi, a paleoanthropologist at Aix-Marseille University in Marseille, France, told Live Science. “For a long time, it was thought that Homo sapiens had simply killed the Neanderthals. Today, thanks to the results of genetic analysis, we know that the encounters between Neanderthals and sapiens were not always so cruel, and that interbreeding took place — even …

“Having a place where all of the things that made me weird in the rest of my life were normal was completely life-changing,” Lin recalled. Like many progressive Asian American Christians today, Lin felt she was being forced to choose between theology and community. This quandary swirled through her head in late 2016, as she observed the presidential election and the betrayal that many Asian American evangelicals felt as they watched their white co-religionists vote in droves for Donald Trump. She wondered if there were others like her, people who wanted a space where they could be progressive, Asian American, and Christian. “I know you’re out there, and I wish we all could meet somehow,” Lin wrote in an article published on …

Emanuel Kidega Samson testifies in his own defense at his trial last week. (Shelley Mays/The Tennessean via AP, Pool) “Dylann Roof is less than nothing,” the note found in Samson’s car read. “The blood that 10 of your kind will shed is that of the color upon the RBG [Pan-African] flag in terms of vengeance.” Samson is black and his victims were white. During his trial, jurors heard jail calls from October 2017 in which Samson laughed about the shooting with his then-girlfriend. At one point, Samson said he heard the victims saying “some funny s—” when he was on the floor of the sanctuary after being shot during a tussle with a churchgoer. Defense attorney Jennifer Lynn Thompson had argued for …

TEXAS WOMAN TAKEN OFF LIFE SUPPORT AGAINST FAMILY’S WISHES – THEN A PRO-LIFE GROUP STEPPED IN Martinez received a devastating diagnosis as an undergraduate student at the University of Houston. Plagued by headaches and blacking out, Martinez was diagnosed with a debilitating condition called Chiari Malformation, which involves brain tissue extending into the spinal cord. It could cause paralysis. Martinez suffered a seizure during her first year of medical school and had to undergo experimental surgery. During her third year, she suffered a stroke that left her unable to function from the neck down. She was transferred to TIRR Memorial Hermann Hospital for intense neuro-rehabilitation where she learned to walk, feed, dress, and bathe once again. NEBRASKA MAN SAYS MIRACULOUS RECOVERY AFTER BEING DECLARED BRAIN …