For Immediate Release March 24, 2020 FAMU Faculty and Students Engaged by Florida Health Department to Combat Coronavirus Pandemic Eight Florida A&M University (FAMU) public health professors and students have been recruited by the Florida Department of Health (DOH) to help fight the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The “FAMU 8 Strike COVID-19 Team” includes four faculty and four students. Seven of the FAMU team members are […]
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Black Mompreneur Creates Online Hair School
Nationwide (BlackNews.com) — These days, being able to work from home is an asset. With the current global events, it is crucial that individuals and businesses adopt alternative and innovative ways to provide services, reach their clients, spread their messages, learn and earn income. For this reason, licensed social worker and entrepreneur Jessyca Marshall has […]
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“I Am More Than My Hair” Wins “Best Documentary Short” At ‘Through Women’s Eyes’ International Film Festival 2020
Alyscia Cunningham’s powerful new film tells the inspirational stories of females who experienced hair loss due to a health-related condition. SILVER SPRING, MARYLAND—Filmmaker Alyscia Cunningham’s empowering documentary, I Am More Than My Hair won the “Best Documentary Short” award at the Through Women’s Eyes (TWE) International Film Festival 2020. The award-winning documentary features inspirational stories […]
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Black Mom Living in Taiwan Offers Tips on How to Find Peace Over Panic While Being Quarantined
Nationwide (BlackNews.com) — Juanita Ingram, a wife and mother of two, is also an attorney, author, and media personality who is currently living in Taiwan as an expat. She has a new book entitled Peace Over Panic that gives people encouragement and advice on how to survive self-quarantine. Juanita Ingram, a wife and mother of […]
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D-Nice Throws World’s Biggest Dance Party
By Micha Green AFRO D.C. Editor mgreen@afro.com With businesses shutting down and people from the United States and countries around the world quarantining due to the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic, people of all backgrounds are spreading light, love and art through social media, as viewers watch from their confines of their homes. From his living room, […]
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Women’s History Month: An Agenda
AN AGENDA FOR BLACK WOMEN A PATH TO EMPOWERMENT AND TRANSFORMATIONAL CHANGE This Women’s History Month, I call upon each of us to play a greater role in the sociopolitical and economic progression of women. I call upon each of us to play a participatory role of changing outcomes and the expansion of influence of […]
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Congresswoman Johnson Announces $2.8 Million in Federal Funding for Children’s Medical Center Dallas
Washington, DC – Today, Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson announced that the Children’s Medical Center Dallas has been awarded $2,880,612 from the U.S. Department of Health And Human Services for the Childrens Graduate Medical Education Program. “In our current times, it is more critical now than ever that we support and expand our medical workforce to […]
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From Top to Bottom Line: Everest Closing Means Financial Hit
By PAT GRAHAM and BINAJ GURUBACHARYA, Associated Press KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Apa Sherpa knows firsthand all the risks of climbing Mount Everest. He’s been to the summit 21 times. The potential for a COVID-19 outbreak at base camp had him just as fearful as a blizzard or cracking ice. The 60-year-old mountaineer from Nepal who now […]
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Testing Blunders Crippled US Response As Coronavirus Spreads
By MICHAEL BIESECKER, MIKE STOBBE and MATTHEW PERRONE, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A series of missteps at the nation’s top public health agency caused a critical shortage of reliable laboratory tests for the coronavirus, hobbling the federal response as the pandemic spread across the nation. President Donald Trump assured Americans early this month that […]
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Seven Tips for Working From Home
Ericka Alston Buck (Photo Credit: Jermaine Gibbs/Out The Box Photography) By Ericka Alston Buck As some of us venture into our second week with our children out of school and many professionals unprepared yet transition into working from home for the first time; we realize that there were no instructions given on how to actually […]
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Fauci Says He Can’t Stop Trump From Talking At Briefings
By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Dr. Anthony Fauci says he can’t jump in front of the microphone to stop President Donald Trump from speaking at daily White House briefings on the coronavirus outbreak. The nation’s top infectious disease expert tells Science magazine in an interview that Trump listens “even though we disagree on some things.” […]
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Fed to Buy as Much Government Debt as Needed to Aid Economy
By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — In its boldest effort to protect the U.S. economy from the coronavirus, the Federal Reserve says it will buy as much government debt as it deems necessary and will also begin lending to small and large businesses and local governments to help them weather the crisis. […]