By CARLEY PETESCH and AL-HADJI KUDRA MALIRO, Associated Press BENI, Congo (AP) — Congo has been battling an Ebola outbreak that has killed thousands of people for more than 18 months, and now it must also face a new scourge: the coronavirus pandemic. Ebola has left those living in the country’s east weary and fearful, […]
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Black Voters Weighed History, Health in Wisconsin Election
By CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY and GRETCHEN EHLKE, Associated Press MILWAUKEE, Wis. (AP) — After going to sleep angry and afraid to vote, Xavier Thomas woke up on election day in Wisconsin thinking about how hard Black people had to fight for the right to cast a ballot. He didn’t want to be deterred, despite the […]
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SCOM: Here is Another Check-In with — This Time with a Member of the Football Team
#scomup tv Check-Ins: Nick O’Shea interviews Stefan Touani
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Outcry Over Racial Data Grows as Virus Slams Black Americans
By KAT STAFFORD, MEGHAN HOYER and AARON MORRISON, Associated Press As the coronavirus tightens its grip across the country, it is cutting a particularly devastating swath through an already vulnerable population — Black Americans. Democratic lawmakers and community leaders in cities hard-hit by the pandemic have been sounding the alarm over what they see as […]
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Stampede in Kenya as Residents Surge for Food Aid
By TOM ODULA and IDI ALI JUMA, Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Thousands of people surged for food aid in a brief stampede Friday in Kenya’s capital, desperate for help as coronavirus restrictions keep them from making a living. Police fired tear gas and injured several people, witnesses said. Residents of Nairobi’s Kibera, spotting […]
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Bunnies To The Rescue As Virus Hits Belgian Chocolatiers
By RAF CASERT, Associated Press SINT-PIETERS BRUGGE, Belgium (AP) — Master chocolatier Dominique Persoone stood forlorn on his huge workfloor, a faint smell of cocoa lingering amid the idle machinery — in a mere memory of better times. Easter Sunday is normally the most important date on the chocolate makers’ calendar. But the coronavirus pandemic, […]
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Trump Feels No Need For Crisis Counsel From Predecessors
By DARLENE SUPERVILLE, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President George W. Bush turned to one of the world’s most exclusive clubs for help raising money after an Indian Ocean tsunami killed more than 200,000 people in 2004. He paired his father, George H.W. Bush, and the man who defeated him to win the presidency in […]
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Doctors, Nurses in Good Friday Procession at Vatican
By FRANCES D’EMILIO, Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — A pair of white-coated doctors who care for coronavirus patients participated in a torch-lit Good Friday procession, watched over by Pope Francis and held in a hauntingly nearly empty St. Peter’s Square instead of at Rome’s Colosseum because of the safety measures aimed at containing the […]
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New York Area Walloped as Global Virus Deaths Pass 100,000
By MATT SEDENSKY, MIKE CATALINI and JIM MUSTIAN, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The worldwide death toll from the coronavirus surged past 100,000 Friday as the epidemic in the U.S. cut a widening swath through not just New York City but the entire three-state metropolitan area of 20 million people connected by a tangle […]
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Next Potential Shortage: Drugs Needed To Run Ventilators
By MICHAEL REZENDES and LINDA A. JOHNSON, Associated Press New York (AP) — As hospitals scour the country for scarce ventilators to treat critically ill patients stricken by the new coronavirus, pharmacists are beginning to sound an alarm that could become just as urgent: Drugs that go hand in hand with ventilators are running low even […]
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Groups Used To Serving Desperately Poor Nations Now Help US
By MARTHA MENDOZA and JULIET LINDERMAN, Associated Press In Santa Barbara, forklifts chug through the warehouse of Direct Relief, hustling pallets of much-needed medical supplies into waiting FedEx trucks. Normally those gloves, masks and medicines would go to desperately poor clinics in Haiti or Sudan, but now they’re racing off to Stanford Hospital in Palo […]
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Parenting Points: Parenting During a Pandemic
By Marnita Coleman Special to AFRO About a month ago, I was monitoring the coronavirus outbreak aboard the Grand Princess Cruise Ship docked on the coast of California. It was alarming but somehow appeared distant. Still, I stocked up on groceries, water and sanitizing agents. What a difference a day makes, just 24 little hours. […]