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Black activist, 20, takes charge at Mississippi’s only abortion clinic

Health Women Loading the player… Due to Mississippi’s archaic laws on reproductive rights, the state has only one abortion clinic. One lone Black woman is fighting back by escorting women who seek to terminate their pregnancies into the clinic under a hail of threats and verbal abuse from protesters, ABC News reports. Asia Brown, 20,… Read More »

CEO of activist Starboard: 'We are certainly interested in the story at Bristol-Myers'

Starboard Value is “certainly interested in the story at Bristol-Myers,” Jeffrey Smith, co-founder and CEO of the activist hedge fund, told CNBC on Tuesday.

Does Bristol-Myers Squibb’s new activist investor want to stall its Celgene buyout?

Analysts and investors have both expressed concerns over Bristol-Myers Squibb’s $ 74 billion Celgene deal agreement. And an activist may be joining that list. Known agitator Starboard Value has taken a stake in the New Jersey drugmaker, Bloomberg’s sources say, though the size of that stake and the hedge fund’s plans are still unclear. A… Read More »