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• Big Pharma’s Monopoly On Ozempic Threatens Access To Diabetes Drug In Communities Of Color

  13-07-2024 14:30
  
   
  By Andre Johnson
  Black Americans suffer from obesity at disproportionate rates, but the popular weight-loss drug Ozempic isn’t available in many inner-city neighborhoods.
  An obscure industry — compounding pharmacies — have found business serving black residents that Big Pharma ignores. 
  The number of people living with diabetes worldwide is on pace to more than double in the next three decades, according to a recent study published in The Lancent. This increase wil
  
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• Black Man Got Job Interview After Changing Name On Resume, Lawsuit Says

  13-07-2024 13:30
  
  Photo: Dwight Jackson
  A Black man has filed a discrimination lawsuit against a Detroit hotel after he was allegedly granted a job interview following a simple resume change.
  Dwight Jackson applied for a hospitality job at the Shinola Hotel in downtown Detroit earlier this year but initially didn’t receive a callback. Jackson decided to switch up his resume by simply changing his name to a “white-sounding” one to see if he would get different results.
  “Didn’t change
  
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• Bally’s Announces Refreshed Site Plan that Restores 500-room Hotel Tower Plan into Single-Phase Project

  13-07-2024 13:30
  
  Bally’s Beginning Site Prep for Demolition for Fall 2026 Opening (All Renderings: HKS).
  Bally’s Corporation (NYSE: BALY or “Bally’s”) today announced a refreshed Bally’s Chicago Casino permanent site plan that prominently features a planned 500-room, 34-story hotel tower into a single-phase construction project at the 30-acre former Tribune Publishing site, pending approval of the Chicago Department of Planning & Development.
  In new renderings released tod
  
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