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New poll reveals how coronavirus is affecting Black voters
(The Root via Defender News Service) — The 2020 elections will forever be marked by the coronavirus, but how the pandemic will affect voter turnout
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COVID-19 disproportionately affects African Americans
By Fritz Esker Contributing Writer The Louisiana Department of Health unveiled stats on April 5 that revealed that African Americans make up over 70 percent
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By Meghan Holmes Contributing Writer As the number of coronavirus cases around the world continues to increase, experts predict that greenhouse gas emissions will decrease globally for the first time since the ... COVID-19 and the unfunded Black Belt commission
By Greg Kaufmann Contributing Writer (Special from Facing South) — It is now clear that African Americans are disproportionately vulnerable to illness and death from COVID-19, and perhaps no region is ... Earl Graves, founder, and publisher of Black Enterprise magazine, dies
By Stacy M. Brown Contributing Writer (NNPA Newswire) — Tributes have poured in for Black Enterprise founder Earl G. Graves Sr., who died this week at the age of 85. Coronavirus compounds inequality and endangers Communities of Color
By Conner Maxwell Contributing Writer (Special to the Trice Edney News Wire from the Center for American Progress) — Inequality is magnified in times of national hardship. Perhaps nowhere is this clearer ... SheaMoisture announces $1M relief fund for business owners of color
(Forbes via Defender News Service) — The global pandemic that is COVID-19 is impacting organizations in unimaginable ways. Companies are having to adapt and adjust to a fully remote workplace, ... African-American scientist breaks ground in Cancer Research
By Stacy M. Brown Contributing Writer (NNPA Newswire) — Dr. Hadiyah-Nicole Green, an assistant professor at Morehouse School of Medicine in the Physiology Department, has reportedly become the first person to successfully ... United Nations launches major humanitarian appeal to keep COVID-19 from ‘circling back around the globe’
(UN News) — To confront the unprecedented worldwide challenge posed by the COVID-19 Coronavirus pandemic, top UN officials on last Wednesday, launched a massive humanitarian appeal to mitigate its impact, ... The Emmett Till Bill: America’s reluctance toward introspection
By Ryan Whirty Contributing Writer Late on the evening of Oct. 11, 1933, between 50 and 100 angry whites forced 16-year-old Black teen Freddie (sometimes spelled Freddy) Moore out of a jail ...
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