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Fofana 2-3 1-2 5, Jones 4-6 8-8 17, Lewis 2-3 2-2 6, Fuller 2-8 6-6 10, Washington 3-7 3-5 9, Adams 8-12 3-3 19, Martindale 1-2 3-4 6, Brinson 3-3 3-4 9, Beard 1-4 0-0 2, Barbee 1-2 0-0 2, Cain 0-1 4-4 4, Thibiant 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 27-52 33-38 89. Pickett 1-4 0-0 3, Addo-Ankrah 1-6 0-0 3, Craig 3-7 0-0 8, Lee 2-6 2-2 8, Shogbonyo 6-11 1-1 15, Lopez-Sanvicente 3-4 3-6 10, Akins 2-9 2-5 7, Mani 0-5 0-0 0, Bowen 0-1 4-4 4, Carney 1-3 0-0 2. Totals 19-56 12-18 60. Halftime_CS Northridge 48-33. 3-Point Goals_CS Northridge 2-14 (Jones 1-1, Martindale 1-2, Barbee 0-1, Cain 0-1, Thibiant 0-1, Beard 0-2, Washington 0-2, Fuller 0-4), Denver 10-30 (Lee 2-2, Shogbonyo 2-4, Craig 2-5, Lopez-Sanvicente 1-1, Pickett 1-3, Addo-Ankrah 1-5, Akins 1-5, Bowen 0-1, Carney 0-2, Mani 0-2). Fouled Out_Lee, Akins. Rebounds_CS Northridge 40 (Adams 11), Denver 18 (Lopez-Sanvicente 5). Assists_CS Northridge 9 (Beard 4), Denver 10 (Lopez-Sanvicente 3). Total Fouls_CS Northridge 19, Denver 29. A_109 (7,321).ATLANTA (AP) — As she checked into a recent flight to Mexico for vacation, Teja Smith chuckled at the idea of joining another Women’s March on Washington . As a Black woman, she just couldn’t see herself helping to replicate the largest act of resistance against then-President Donald Trump’s first term in January 2017. Even in an election this year where Trump questioned his opponent’s race , held rallies featuring racist insults and falsely claimed Black migrants in Ohio were eating residents’ pets , he didn't just win a second term. He became the first Republican in two decades to clinch the popular vote, although by a small margin. “It’s like the people have spoken and this is what America looks like,” said Smith, the Los Angeles-based founder of the advocacy social media agency, Get Social. “And there’s not too much more fighting that you’re going to be able to do without losing your own sanity.” After Trump was declared the winner over Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris , many politically engaged Black women said they were so dismayed by the outcome that they were reassessing — but not completely abandoning — their enthusiasm for electoral politics and movement organizing. Black women often carry much of the work of getting out the vote in their communities. They had vigorously supported the historic candidacy of Harris, who would have been the first woman of Black and South Asian descent to win the presidency. Harris' loss spurred a wave of Black women across social media resolving to prioritize themselves, before giving so much to a country that over and over has shown its indifference to their concerns. AP VoteCast , a survey of more than 120,000 voters, found that 6 in 10 Black women said the future of democracy in the United States was the single most important factor for their vote this year, a higher share than for other demographic groups. But now, with Trump set to return to office in two months, some Black women are renewing calls to emphasize rest, focus on mental health and become more selective about what fight they lend their organizing power to. “America is going to have to save herself,” said LaTosha Brown, the co-founder of the national voting rights group Black Voters Matter. She compared Black women’s presence in social justice movements as “core strategists and core organizers” to the North Star, known as the most consistent and dependable star in the galaxy because of its seemingly fixed position in the sky. People can rely on Black women to lead change, Brown said, but the next four years will look different. “That’s not a herculean task that’s for us. We don’t want that title. ... I have no goals to be a martyr for a nation that cares nothing about me,” she said. AP VoteCast paints a clear picture of Black women's concerns. Black female voters were most likely to say that democracy was the single most important factor for their vote, compared to other motivators such as high prices or abortion. More than 7 in 10 Black female voters said they were “very concerned” that electing Trump would lead the nation toward authoritarianism, while only about 2 in 10 said this about Harris. About 9 in 10 Black female voters supported Harris in 2024, according to AP VoteCast, similar to the share that backed Democrat Joe Biden in 2020. Trump received support from more than half of white voters, who made up the vast majority of his coalition in both years. Like voters overall, Black women were most likely to say the economy and jobs were the most important issues facing the country, with about one-third saying that. But they were more likely than many other groups to say that abortion and racism were the top issues, and much less likely than other groups to say immigration was the top issue. Despite those concerns, which were well-voiced by Black women throughout the campaign, increased support from young men of color and white women helped expand Trump’s lead and secured his victory. Politically engaged Black women said they don’t plan to continue positioning themselves in the vertebrae of the “backbone” of America’s democracy. The growing movement prompting Black women to withdraw is a shift from history, where they are often present and at the forefront of political and social change. One of the earliest examples is the women’s suffrage movement that led to ratification in 1920 of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution , which gave women the right to vote. Black women, however, were prevented from voting for decades afterward because of Jim Crow-era literacy tests, poll taxes and laws that blocked the grandchildren of slaves from voting. Most Black women couldn’t vote until the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Black women were among the organizers and counted among the marchers brutalized on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Alabama, during the historic march in 1965 from Selma to Montgomery that preceded federal legislation. Decades later, Black women were prominent organizers of the Black Lives Matter movement in response to the deaths of Black Americans at the hands of police and vigilantes. In his 2024 campaign, Trump called for leveraging federal money to eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion programs in government programs and discussions of race, gender or sexual orientation in schools. His rhetoric on immigration, including false claims that Black Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, were eating cats and dogs, drove support for his plan to deport millions of people . Tenita Taylor, a Black resident of Atlanta who supported Trump this year, said she was initially excited about Harris’ candidacy. But after thinking about how high her grocery bills have been, she feels that voting for Trump in hopes of finally getting lower prices was a form of self-prioritization. “People say, ‘Well, that’s selfish, it was gonna be better for the greater good,''' she said. “I’m a mother of five kids. ... The things that (Democrats) do either affect the rich or the poor.” Some of Trump’s plans affect people in Olivia Gordon’s immediate community, which is why she struggled to get behind the “Black women rest” wave. Gordon, a New York-based lawyer who supported the Party for Socialism and Liberation’s presidential nominee, Claudia de la Cruz, worries about who may be left behind if the 92% of Black women voters who backed Harris simply stopped advocating. “We’re talking millions of Black women here. If millions of Black women take a step back, it absolutely leaves holes, but for other Black women,” she said. “I think we sometimes are in the bubble of if it’s not in your immediate circle, maybe it doesn’t apply to you. And I truly implore people to understand that it does.” Nicole Lewis, an Alabama-based therapist who specializes in treating Black women’s stress, said she’s aware that Black women withdrawing from social impact movements could have a fallout. But she also hopes that it forces a reckoning for the nation to understand the consequences of not standing in solidarity with Black women. “It could impact things negatively because there isn’t that voice from the most empathetic group,” she said. “I also think it’s going to give other groups an opportunity to step up. ... My hope is that they do show up for themselves and everyone else.” Brown said a reckoning might be exactly what the country needs, but it’s a reckoning for everyone else. Black women, she said, did their job when they supported Harris in droves in hopes they could thwart the massive changes expected under Trump. “This ain’t our reckoning,” she said. “I don’t feel no guilt.” AP polling editor Amelia Thomson DeVeaux and Associated Press writer Linley Sanders in Washington contributed to this report. The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The AP is solely responsible for all content.Nothing says joy, love, and tolerance like ditching your family or friends over who they voted for, especially at the holidays. But lots of Lefties seem determined to be the Grinch as we head into Thanksgiving and Christmas because they lost an election. The harpies on 'The View' told their viewers to skip the turkey this year , and Joy Reid told people to stay away because their Trump-voting relatives will 'turn them in' (to who? Tim Walz's COVID snitch line?) This one, however, breaks our hearts. And it's blown up on X because of its breathtaking cruelty: My elderly neighbor is a maga, and up until now, we have spent a lot of time together—dinners, coffee in the morning, and beer at night. I just declined his offer to get together for Thanksgiving. He looked sad, but so did I. I am sad that he voted for hate. 'Vote for hate.' Sure, buddy. Whatever you say. This is disgusting behavior on your part. Absolutely disgusting. Nothing says love like leaving an elderly man alone for Thanksgiving. FEEL THE JOY. Sounds like you’re the hater. Because he is. My 90 year old dad-in-law is a yellow dog Democrat and I'm making all his favorite dishes for Thanksgiving. #BeGratefulNotHateful This is what adults do. If your relationships are ruled by politics you’re a zealot. If you cut off contact with an elderly person over their vote you are a soulless bigot. May the intolerance you put out in the universe come back to you tenfold. Some day he will be old, and alone. Half the people in America voted for Trump. Do you think half the people in America are evil? Come on. Frankly what you did to him is far worse. They are what they accuse their political opponents of being. Every single time. Here is your typical completely unaware lefty democrat voting fool smh https://t.co/rNTtI4kQkv Fool is too kind. The hateful person in this scenario is @loose_parts https://t.co/ppF1R2LVpI It's (D)ifferent when they do it. I’ve worked in politics for 15+ years and never shunned people for voting differently than me. Petty behavior to take advantage of your elderly neighbor’s niceness and spit in his face like this. Leftists need to stop treating politics like a religion. It’s unhealthy. https://t.co/y9iMYbZohG It's very unhealthy. Your life is a lie. Your virtue is a delusion. You are what you claim to despise. You are hate. https://t.co/ZW8plR7teH Nailed it. The president you voted for called more than half the country "garbage." You're not mad your neighbor voted for hate. You're mad that he didn't. https://t.co/LZ4OeJ7anw But that's the 'correct' kind of hate.
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A new study by local academics and emergency medical services found Baltimore City bystanders are less likely to provide CPR than those in Maryland and the rest of the country. The study was a “rapid retrospective analysis of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) cases from Baltimore City between January 2020 and December 2022, using data from the Cardiac Arrest Registry to Enhance Survival.” The study was published in the Dove Medical Press and is credited as collaboration between Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore City Community College, the University of Maryland, and the Baltimore City Fire Department. What it found was not encouraging, the study concludes. “The findings of this preliminary analysis reveal that, as of 2022, individuals experiencing non-traumatic OHCA in Baltimore City were approximately 45% less likely to receive BCPR compared to both state and national averages,” the study’s authors wrote. “This stark disparity persists despite the implementation of dispatch-assisted CPR protocols and targeted community education programs,” they wrote. “These results underscore the pressing need to explore and address the underlying barriers that contribute to the alarmingly low BCPR rates in Baltimore City.” According to Hopkins, cardiac arrest is when the heart stops beating suddenly, and the lack of blood flow to the brain and other organs can cause a person to lose consciousness, become disabled or die if not treated immediately. The study found 4,113 cases of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest from 2020 to 2022 in Baltimore City with a bystander CPR rate that decreased from 29.6% in 2020 to 27.4% in 2022. During the same period, the bystander CPR rate in Maryland ranged from 40.7% to 42.4% compared to around 40% nationally. In 2022, nearly 71% of cases happened at homes or residences and victims had an average age of about 59. About 59% of cases were males and nearly 75% were African-Americans, according to the study. The study found out of 1,282 cases of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in Baltimore in 2022, a bystander performed CPR in 27.4% of them, compared to over 40% in Maryland and nationwide. “Addressing these disparities may necessitate a health equity-focused investigation into public awareness, CPR training access, and sociocultural factors,” the study says. There are nearly half a million cases of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest each year in the United States, according to the study, and less than 10% of victims survive to hospital discharge. “Immediate intervention has been identified as a key determinant of both survival and favorable neurological outcomes,” the study says. The study defines bystander CPR as any resuscitative effort provided by a layperson or non-medical professional prior to EMS arrival. “These results underscore the pressing need to explore and address the underlying barriers that contribute to the alarmingly low [bystander CPR] rates in Baltimore City,” the study says. “Socioeconomic factors, including race/ethnicity, income inequality and education, have been linked to lower bystander CPR rates in underserved populations.”Rico Carty, who won the 1970 NL batting title when he hit a major league-best .366 for the Atlanta Braves, has died. He was 85. Major League Baseball , the players' association and the Braves paid tribute to Carty on social media on Sunday. No further details on Carty's death were provided. “Carty was one of the first groundbreaking Latino stars in the major leagues, and he established himself as a hero to millions in his native Dominican Republic, his hometown of San Pedro de Macoris, and the city of Atlanta, where he was a beloved fan favorite,” the players' association said in its statement . The Braves said Carty left an indelible mark on the organization. “While his on-field accomplishments will never be forgotten, his unforgettable smile and generous nature will be sorely missed,” the team said in its statement. Carty made his big league debut with the Braves in September 1963. He batted .330 with 22 homers and 88 RBIs in his first full season in 1964, finishing second to Dick Allen in voting for NL Rookie of the Year. The Braves moved from Milwaukee to Atlanta after the 1965 season, and Carty got the franchise's first hit in its new home on April 12, 1966, against Pittsburgh. Carty had his best year in 1970, batting .366 with 25 homers and a career-best 101 RBIs. He started the All-Star Game after he was elected as a write-in candidate, joining Willie Mays and Hank Aaron in the NL outfield. Carty batted .299 with 204 homers and 890 RBIs over 15 years in the majors, also playing for Cleveland, Toronto, Oakland, Texas and the Chicago Cubs. He retired after the 1979 season. ___ AP MLB: https://apnews.com/hub/MLB The Associated Press