By CARA ANNA, Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — As COVID-19 cases surged in many parts of the world, the island nation of the Seychelles was looking good: 70-plus straight days without a single infection. Then the planes arrived. Two chartered Air Seychelles flights carrying more than 200 passengers also brought the coronavirus. A few tested […]
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Amid Pandemic, Fewer Students Seek Federal Aid For College
By COLLIN BINKLEY and LARRY FENN, Associated Press The number of high school seniors applying for U.S. federal college aid plunged in the weeks following the sudden closure of school buildings this spring — a time when students were cut off from school counselors, and families hit with financial setbacks were reconsidering plans for higher […]
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Local Non-profit Girls in the Game Awarded $100,000 Donation from Kevin Durant Charitable Foundation, Degree
Girls in the Game Awarded $100,000 Donation from The Kevin Durant Charity Foundation, Degree and Laureus USA to Support Social Justice Programming in Chicago, Baltimore and Dallas Chicago, IL – Girls in the Game today announced it received a $100,000 grant from The Kevin Durant Charity Foundation (KDCF) and Degree Deodorant in partnership with Laureus USA. The […]
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Egypt Arrests Doctors, Silences Critics Over Virus Outbreak
By The Associated Press A doctor arrested after writing an article about Egypt’s fragile health system. A pharmacist picked up from work after posting online about a shortage of protective gear. An editor taken from his home after questioning official coronavirus figures. A pregnant doctor arrested after a colleague used her phone to report a […]
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Fight Break Out Over Food Shortage As Refugees Go Hungry
Kampala, Uganda—With food gone and six children to feed, 40-year-old Zawadi Kizungu had no choice but to walk miles to find food, and stepped into a food shortage troubling all of Central Uganda. She braved the early morning chill and walked 16 kilometers, nearly 10 miles, from her home in Ndejje, a village on the […]
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Colgate Donates Millions Worth of Hygiene Essentials to In-Need Communities to Combat COVID-19
Colgate Mobilizes its Dental Vans and Partners with Feeding America® to Distribute Health-and-Hygiene Essentials to Support COVID-19 Relief Schools, Food Banks to Receive Donations to Support People In Need Colgate-Palmolive is repurposing its fleet of mobile dental vans and tapping into a network of food banks and school district lunch programs to distribute health and hygiene products to […]
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Driveway Drag Shows and Backyard Violins: Business Takes Off For Performers Who Deliver
Artists are blazing a new path to battle isolation, boredom and sagging spirits: home delivery. Michelle Livigne has been a drag entertainer in Richmond, Virginia, for 12 years, and missed the camaraderie of friends and coworkers. She casually joked on social media about doing driveway drag shows. In less than 72 hours, she had more […]
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African Americans Die More Frequently From COVID-19, But MIT Researchers Say Poverty Isn’t Why
(By pixelheadphoto digitalskillet_Shutterstock) Black Americans are dying from Covid-19 more frequently than white people. But two researchers found it’s not because of obesity or poverty. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management professor Christopher Knittel and graduate research assistant Bora Ozaltun analyzed daily Covid-19 death rates for a nearly two-month period for counties and […]
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Virus, Floyd Death Merge in Brutal Blow to Black Well-Being
By LINDSEY TANNER, AP Medical Writer Doctors have known it for a long time, well before the resounding cries of “Black Lives Matter”: Black people suffer disproportionately. They face countless challenges to good health, among them food, transportation and income. The stress of living with racism has very real, physical effects. And they are especially […]
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COMMENTARY: The American Economic System Works Just Fine—for White People
By Jerome Love, Special to the Houston Forward Times via BPUSA For the past four hundred years, and most recently after the brutal killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Rayshard Brooks, and other Black citizens by police forces in America, Black people and progressive Whites in America have protested that “the system” is racist, broken, […]
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South Africa’s Hospitals Bracing for Surge of Virus Patients
By ANDREW MELDRUM, Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The nurse started crying when describing her work at a Johannesburg hospital: The ward for coronavirus patients is full, so new arrivals are sent to the general ward, where they wait days for test results. Already 20 of her colleagues have tested positive. “A lot, a lot, […]
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Wide Angle Youth Media and WYPR 88.1FM Presents: Virtual Graduation 2020
By AFRO Staff Wide Angle Youth Media and WYPR 88.1FM partnered to host the first-ever virtual graduation for its seniors on June 25. Graduation featured a keynote address by Baltimore born actress Tiffany Boone, as well as guest speakers Erricka Bridgeford, Lady Brion, and D. Watkins on the theme, “Thriving, not Striving.” The event highlighted […]