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Inmates over the age of 55 more than doubled since 1995

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NEW YORK (AP) - The latest available figures from 2010 show that 8 percent of the prison population -- 124,400 inmates -- was 55 or older, compared to 3 percent in 1995, according to a report being released Friday by Human Rights Watch...
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Ex-heavyweight champ Frazier still fighting cancer

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PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Former heavyweight champion Joe Frazier is battling the liver cancer that has put him under hospice care...
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Ex-heavyweight champ Frazier has liver cancer

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PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Former heavyweight champion Joe Frazier has liver cancer and is under hospice care...
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Downsides of cancer care rarely seen in black media

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(Reuters Health) - Few media stories on cancer venture into issues of death, dying and end-of-life care -- and outlets directed at African Americans are particularly unlikely to do so, a new study suggests...
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Carl Gardner, Coasters lead singer, dies at 83

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PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. (AP) - Carl Gardner, original lead singer of the R&B group the Coasters, has died in Florida. He was 83...
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For too many blacks, end-of-life care is taboo

Dr. Tyeese Gaines
OPINION -- Many in the field cite mistrust of the health care system, spiritual beliefs and personal views about death as barriers to end-of-life decisions among the African-American community.
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