The mayor of a small Tennessee city has succumbed to COVID-19. Mayor Lonnie Norman of Manchester, which is just 65 miles west of Nashville,died during early Monday morning, according to a post from the mayor’s official Facebook page. He died after being diagnosed with COVID-19. “With a deep sense […]
New data from the Federal Reserve show the coronavirus pandemic has helped widen the wealth gap and increase income inequality in the United States. The coronavirus has exposed stark differences in jobs, education, and income in the U.S. Non-essential workers are paid more, have better educations, and typically […]
Two higher institutions are bowing down to President Donald Trump after he recently pushed for restrictions against diversity training. According to Inside Higher Ed, The University of Iowa and John A. Logan College in Illinois has suspended diversity events, citing fear of consequence of violating the executive order against […]
Mayor de Blasio demanded an end to ICE agents posing as NYPD officers In uptown Manhattan, an immigrant family man was apprehended by ICE agents who was pretending to be NYPD officers. Fernando Santos-Rodriguez is a 48-year-old undocumented immigrant who spent 30 years of his life […]
According to a recently published report from the CDC, Black, Latino and Native American children are dying at a disproportionately higher rate than their white counterparts from COVID-19. The study, published on September 18, documented 391,814 known cases and 121 deaths among people under the age of […]
The rise of the COVID-19 pandemic has caused massive economic fallout and job layoffs, especially in marginalized communities. According to a survey by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), nearly 41% of respondents said that they have experienced symptoms of anxiety and depression or […]
With the election season officially underway with the launch of a new civic holiday last week — National Black Voter Day — and National Voter Registration Day this week, we are in desperate need of a new narrative about the Black youth vote. We […]
The grand jury convened in the Breonna Taylor case charged one officer for shooting into neighbor’s apartments, but no charges directly linked to her death A grand jury convened in Breonna Taylor’s shooting death decided to press charges against former Louisville police officer Brett Hankison, but […]
Image: Emojipedia Sample Image Collection version 13.1. By Joséphine Li 217 New Emojis have been approved and are expected to come to devices between January to October next year. Unicode, a non-profit that oversees emoji standards, announced the release of more than 200 emojis throughout next […]
The Black community may be more receptive ‘if members of our task force give it the green light,’ says Dr. Leon McDougle. The National Medical Association, a group of Black physicians, has created a task force to independently vet COVID-19 drugs, vaccines and […]
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