Sylvester Brown
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
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- Sep 30, 2026
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Supreme Court allows expanded citizenship checks (opens the original)
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The U.S. Supreme Court has lifted restrictions on the Trump administration’s expanded federal voter citizenship database, allowing it to be used while a legal challenge continues. The Trump administration last year significantly expanded the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements, or SAVE, program, created after Congress passed legislation in 1986. Trump, by executive order, directed the Department of Homeland Security and Social Security Administration to integrate records so state and
Black patients face barriers to clinical trials (opens the original)
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Black Americans remain underrepresented in clinical trials for new drugs and medical treatments, and a panel at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s Annual Legislative Conference on Friday explored how to change that. The session, “Let’s Talk Trials: Why Representation in Clinical Research Matters,” examined barriers that keep Black people and other historically underrepresented populations from participating in research and ways to make clinical trials more accessible. Diseases can affec
Amendment 6 would strengthen citizen referendum power (opens the original)
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Missouri’s fight over a Republican-backed 2025 congressional map has put the state’s referendum process in the spotlight, and voters will decide in November whether to give that citizen power greater constitutional protection. Missouri Amendment 6 is a citizen-initiated constitutional amendment designed to protect the state’s direct democracy process, proponents say. The measure, spearheaded by the advocacy group Respect MO Voters, seeks to stop state lawmakers from weakening initiative or refer
WashU blood test could improve Alzheimer’s diagnosis (opens the original)
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An innovative blood test for Alzheimer’s disease, developed using technology invented at Washington University School of Medicine, has been cleared for marketing by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The test, known as PrecivityAD2, is a blood-based diagnostic developed and validated by C2N Diagnostics, a WashU startup company. PrecivityAD2 helps identify the presence of amyloid plaques in the brain associated with Alzheimer’s disease in certain patients. Unlike some other FDA-cleared blood
Samantha March is bringing opportunity home (opens the original)
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Dr. Samantha March, founding associate partner of early learning with Opportunity Trust, is on a “bring-back” mission. She grew up in North St. Louis but attended schools in the posh Clayton School District through the desegregation program. March, who still lives in North St. Louis, wants children in disadvantaged communities to have the educational opportunities she encountered in Clayton. She will be recognized as an Excellence in Education honoree during the St. Louis American Foundation’s 3
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