By Sean Yoes AFRO Baltimore Editor syoes@afro.com A particularly cruel urban myth that emerged early on during the catastrophic COVID-19 pandemic was, “Black people don’t catch it.” The truth is, like many deadly diseases, more people of color and poor people disproportionately seem to be contracting COVID-19, also known as the coronavirus, than other groups […]
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Guide to Prevent Black Undercount in 2020 Census
By Donna Lewis Johnson Special to the AFRO Two Black-led organizations focused on progressive change in the nation’s political, economic and justice systems have joined forces to launch #BlackWomenCount, an informational campaign to encourage Black women and everyone they know to take the 2020 Census. On April 1, National Census Day, BlackPAC and BlackHer held […]
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THE RUN DOWN – TRUMP SIGNS STIMULUS BILL
By AFRO.COM / BE INSPIRED GLOBAL Host Micha Green talks Trump signing for stimulus checks and trending topics in the AFRO American Newspaper.
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Tiger At NYC’s Bronx Zoo Tests Positive For Coronavirus
By Jennifer Peltz The Associated Press A tiger at the Bronx Zoo has tested positive for the new coronavirus, in what is believed to be the first known infection in an animal in the U.S. or a tiger anywhere, federal officials and the zoo said April 5. The 4-year-old Malayan tiger named Nadia — and […]
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Civil Rights Hero Lowery Honored at Private Atlanta Funeral
By The Associated Press Family of the Rev. Joseph Lowery gathered April 4 for a small, private funeral for the civil rights veteran who worked closely with Martin Luther King Jr. and decades later delivered a prayer before 1.8 million at the inauguration of President Barack Obama. A horse-drawn caisson attended by men in black […]
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Amid Coronavirus Pandemic, Black Mistrust of Medicine Looms
By Aaron Morrison and Jay Reeves The Associated Press Just as the new coronavirus was declared a global pandemic, gym members in New York City frantically called the fitness center where Rahmell Peebles worked, asking him to freeze their memberships. Peebles, a 30-year-old Black man who’s skeptical of what he hears from the news media […]
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NNPA Op-Ed Highlights Other Coronavirus Risk Faced By Black Americans
By AFRO Staff National Newspaper Publishers Association President and CEO Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis Jr. recently authored an op-ed for The Hill, an influential Washington publication, that highlights an important aspect of the novel coronavirus pandemic faced by Black Americans. “Minority and low-income Americans suffer from a significant lack of access to quality health care. […]
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U.S. ‘Wasted’ Months Before Preparing For Virus Pandemic
By MICHAEL BIESECKER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As the first alarms sounded in early January that an outbreak of a novel coronavirus in China might ignite a global pandemic, the Trump administration squandered nearly two months that could have been used to bolster the federal stockpile of critically needed medical supplies and equipment. A review of federal purchasing […]
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Court Revives Suit Over Mississippi School Funding Disparity
By Emily Wagster Pettus The Associated Press A federal appeals court has revived a lawsuit that says Mississippi allows grave disparities in funding between predominantly Black and predominantly White schools. The April 2 ruling by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reverses the 2019 decision by U.S. District Judge William H. Barbour to dismiss […]
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HBO Documentary Sheds New Light On ‘Atlanta Child Murders’
By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr., AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Anthony Terrell believes an imprisoned man currently serving two life sentences may not have been the person who murdered his brother as part of a killing spree that rocked Atlanta four decades ago. Terrell hopes new light can be shed nationwide on the murders […]
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State of Emergency Declared for Black America as Public Health Experts Reveal Coronavirus is Airborne
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia While many medical doctors maintain that the novel coronavirus is transmitted through droplets from coughs or sneezes, more and more medical experts and officials who work primarily with infectious respiratory illnesses and aerosols are convinced that the disease is airborne. Today, as a result of recent medical […]
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IN MEMORIAM: African Americans Who Have Died of COVID-19
By Lauren Victoria Burke NNPA Newswire Contributor The inaccurate Internet memes and false online conspiracies that purport “Blacks can’t get coronavirus” are contrary to reality. African Americans are not immune to COVID-19. On April 2, the Pentagon was looking to provide civilian institutions with more body bags after it was reported that over 1,000 people […]
