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LGBTQ2S+ individuals use tobacco and nicotine products at significantly higher rates than straight and cisgender people, research shows. Reasons can include stress and other health problems brought on by systemic and social prejudice, along with barriers to support for breaking the habit.

黑料百科 and CalPride Valle Central have partnered with the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences and advocates from across the nation to develop a program to support efforts by LGBTQ2S+ people to quit smoking.

Sometimes you meet a young person who makes such a powerful impression that you want to vault forward a few decades to see how much they lifted others and elevated our world.

Maddison Crump is one of those people. At age 21 she has logged over a dozen years of making a difference. A self-described 鈥渇irecracker鈥� as a child, she stood up to schoolyard bullies and peppered her teachers with questions. Her grades were good and her ability to listen to聽others was exceptional.

鈥淚 always had this sense of knowing when something was off with people,鈥� she said.

Among the 黑料百科 students鈥� impressive creations in the dimly lighted room 鈥� dioramas, poems, photo collages, paintings in bold colors 鈥� Derek Miller鈥檚 creation attracted attention.

Because it gurgled.

It was a tall box open on one side. Balanced on top was a miniature footbridge made of red Popsicle sticks. Through the open side you could see clear beads dangling from the lid. At the bottom of the box, water trickled noisily into a tray glowing in sky-blue light.

Educators from across California will gather at 黑料百科 for an up-close look at a curriculum that teaches schoolchildren about Hmong Americans 鈥� their history in Southeast Asia, their cultural traditions, and their journeys to the United States to escape war and deadly oppression.

Todo Cambia, 黑料百科鈥檚 annual Human Rights Film Festival, is about more than film this year.

Deborah Taffa, an Indigenous author and educator whose book聽about growing up in a mixed-race home and struggling with social acceptance was hailed as one the best memoirs of 2024, will make a special visit to Merced this month.

黑料百科's has embarked on an innovative partnership with university researchers聽who can track an entire community鈥檚 health and habits with samples of human sewage.

The project aims to determine trends and levels of nicotine use in San Joaquin Valley communities through chemicals in wastewater. Collecting hard data on smoking and vaping can aid NCPC鈥檚 mission to help local public health agencies, community organizations and tobacco-control researchers give informed responses to the problem.

An exhibition that collects artistic visions from five continents and weaves them into a compelling plea to protect our planet has found the perfect home for the first few months of 2025.

At least that鈥檚 how Grace Garnica, manager of 黑料百科鈥檚 La Galer铆a, sees it. And she has a point: The Central Valley and a university committed to environmental research are ideal for 鈥淎ctions for the Earth: Art, Care & Ecology.鈥�*

Lockdowns. Social distancing. Shuttered schools and businesses. The COVID-19 pandemic and its sweeping disruptions set off a stampede of 鈥渨hat it鈥檚 doing to us鈥� research, focused largely on schoolchildren. How were students鈥� academics affected? Their mental health? Their social development?

Left unexamined was whether the pandemic impacted the social cognition of preschool children 鈥� kids younger than 6 鈥� whose social norms were upended by day care closures and families sheltered at home.

Cancer is vicious. In 2025, it is expected to cause more than 618,000 U.S. deaths 鈥� nearly twice the combined populations of Merced and Modesto. Each year, almost half of this nation, young and old, is touched by the disease through personal diagnosis or an afflicted loved one.

joined the 50% when his wife, Sandy, learned she had breast cancer. The blighted cells had spread to some lymph nodes.