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More than 250 UNLV Health Science students stood in silence for eight minutes and 46 seconds on Friday, to honor George Floyd and other victims of police brutality.

Las Vegas Review Journal

For more than two weeks, Karen Sombra spent every day and night in a Las Vegas pediatric intensive care unit where her 2½-year-old son was being treated for complications from COVID-19.

Las Vegas Review Journal

For more than two weeks, Karen Sombra spent every day and night in a Las Vegas pediatric intensive care unit where her 2½-year-old son was being treated for complications from COVID-19.

Skift

Initial visitors to Sin City following coronavirus shutdowns may feel like they hit a jackpot before they even board a plane.

The New York Times

For decades, the El Cortez Hotel & Casino in downtown Las Vegas has been known for single-deck blackjack.

Consumer Reports

People protesting police violence in the U.S. have faced tear gas, rubber bullets, batons, and the ever-present threat of COVID-19

Vanity Fair

Nicole Santero, a graduate student who runs the popular BTS fan account @researchBTS and is studying fan culture and BTS for her dissertation, says that the BTS fandom, for one, “regularly organizes and participates in charity efforts and service projects worldwide.”

Consumer Reports

Despite the ongoing threat of the COVID-19 pandemic, people in cities around the U.S. have been turning out night after night to protest police violence and racism in the wake of the alleged murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer.

Care.com

In the wake of millions of people taking to the streets to protest police brutality against black Americans — the most recent example of which involved the killing of George Floyd — and demand racial justice, white parents raising white children want to know how they can encourage the next generation to do better. The key: teaching anti-racism. As activist, scholar and writer Angela Davis has stated, “In a racist society, it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.”

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