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Black Men Fear Homemade Masks Could Exacerbate Racial Profiling

April 9, 2020 admin 0

By Gwen Aviles  “The CDC coming to you and saying ‘put a bandana over your face, walk out and that will make you more safe,’ as a black man in New York City, it’s like […]

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Child Sex Abuse Reports Spike As Country Shelters In Place, Advocates Say

April 9, 2020 admin 0

By Alanna Vagianos In March, for the first time, the majority of RAINN’s sexual abuse hotline users were minors. For most Americans, sheltering in place is a sensible act of self-protection amid the coronavirus pandemic. […]

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Why Some People of Color Say They Won’t Wear Homemade Masks

April 8, 2020 Staff 0

From the Crusader By Fernando Alfonso III, CNN The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is now recommending that all Americans wear homemade face coverings in public to help stem the spread of coronavirus. But […]

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Coronavirus Government Response Updates: Trump, Fauci Confirm Black Communities Especially Hard Hit

April 8, 2020 admin 0

Fauci said hypertension, diabetes can make blacks have worse outcomes. By Jordyn Phelp / Libby Cathey and Cheyenne Haslett April 7, 2020 One day after President Donald Trump‘s trade adviser Peter Navarro publicly pushed back against the nation’s top infectious […]

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Coronavirus Cases Rise as Healthcare Workers Must Also Care for Ill Patients Who Don’t Have The Virus

April 7, 2020 admin 0

By Allison Gualtieri –hat’s because statistics don’t always account for all the ways the virus can contribute to people’s deaths. “As a pathologist who has been involved in hundreds of autopsies,” Dr. Deane Waldman told […]

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Report: Black People Are Contracting and Dying of Coronavirus at Higher Rates

April 6, 2020 admin 0

By Saskia Kercy One of the more insidious bits of misinformation in the early days of the pandemic was the idea that black people were somehow, as if by magic, immune to COVID-19, the disease […]

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Over 6.6 Million People Filed For Unemployment: Experts Predict 20 Million More Jobs Will Soon Be Lost

April 2, 2020 admin 0

By Jack Kelly  On Thursday, the Department of Labor reported that a staggering and record-setting 6,648,000 initial unemployment claims were filed for the week ending March 28. This is an aggressive increase in the numbers from the […]

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U.S. Government Signs $450 Million COVID-19 Vaccine Contract With Johnson & Johnson

April 1, 2020 admin 0

by Dana Givens The Trump administration has made another move in the race to combat and stop the viral outbreak of COVID-19, also known as the coronavirus, around the globe. The Health and Human Services […]

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Louisiana Governor on Not Shutting Down Mardi Gras Over Coronavirus Concerns: No One From Federal Government Told Us to Cancel Anything 

March 30, 2020 admin 0

BY BENJAMIN FEARNOW  3/29/2020 Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards reiterated Sunday that last month’s Mardi Gras celebrations weren’t cancelled or downsized amid concerns about the coronavirus, because “not one person” at the federal level directed the […]

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National Black Church Initiative Urges All Churchgoers Over 60 to Stay Home Until Further Notice

March 30, 2020 admin 0

The National Black Church Initiative, a coalition of 34,000 African American and Latino churches working to eradicate racial disparities, has urged leaders of churches in their network to “respect the science” of the new coronavirus […]

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