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Civil Rights Attorney Launches Suit Charging Company With Withholding New HIV Drug
A new federal lawsuit has been filed against Gilead Sci- ences alleging that the phar- maceutical giant of putting profits over people.
According to the Jack- sonville Free Press, civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump believes the company is inten- tionally withholding a safer HIV drug from hundreds of thousands of patients — par- ticularly those in marginalized groups including black and LGBT communities — in order to extend the profitability of the patent it holds on an older, and more risky drug.
“The HIV epidemic is char- acterized by extraordinary dis- parity regarding minority groups,” reports the Free Press, noting that African- Americans have the highest rate of new HIV diagnoses compared to other groups and that more than 70 percent of all new HIV diagnoses in 2017
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were given to gay and bisexual men, as well as transgender women, of all races.
“Gilead’s chosen path of in- action is causing tremendous harm to persons with HIV, particularly black and LGBT minorities, by keeping drugs that would reduce deadly
symptoms off the market and unavailable to those who need them the most,” said Crump. “This lawsuit is a major step in the right direction toward racial equity in communities unevenly affected by HIV and exploited by pharmaceutical Goliaths like Gilead.”
Baltimore Pastor Jamal Bryant To Lead
Atlanta Church
BALTIMORE, MD - JUNE 08: Rev. Jamal Bryant (3rd L) of Em- powerment Temple speaks as Ben Jealous (L) of Southern Elections Fund and Todd Yeary (2nd L) of Maryland NAACP listens during a news conference June 8, 2015 in Baltimore, Maryland. The group CASA and other organizations that seek police accountability held a news conference to discuss "acceptable principles for police reform" in response to the death of Freddie Gray while in police custody. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
Pastor Jamal Bryant is headed to Atlanta to serve as head pastor for New Birth Missionary Baptist Church.
He is leaving Empower- ment Temple, the Baltimore megachurch he founded 18 years ago. And is scheduled to preach his first sermon at New Birth on Dec. 9, according to the AJC.
In an interview with the AJC, Bryant said he in- formed his congregation
about the move on Sunday: “[T]he news did not go over well, at all. There was a great gnashing of teeth. Nobody was expecting it.”
Bryant, 46, said God told him to leave the 10,000-mem- ber Empowerment Temple because he was treating it as his own church. God, accord- ing to Bryant, spoke to him and said: “This is not your church; it belongs to the peo- ple.”
Once Rising GOP Star, Utah’s Mia Love Loses Seat To Democrat
SALT LAKE CITY — Utah’s Mia Love was tabbed as a ris- ing star in the GOP when she became the first black Repub- lican woman in Congress with her 2014 victory.
But on Tuesday she became the latest Republican incum- bent to fall in the midterm election’s Democratic wave that has seen more than three dozen Republican-held seats flipped across the country.
Ben McAdams, a Demo- cratic mayor of Salt Lake County, defeated Love by fewer than 700 votes in a back and forth race that took two weeks to sort out in deep-red Utah.
Love had a built-in advan- tage with Republican voters outnumbering Democrats
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three-to-one in the mostly sub- urban Salt Lake City district, but she never seemed to catch on with voters the way other Republican incumbents have in the state, said Damon Cann, a political science pro- fessor at Utah State University.
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