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Community and Labor Come Together to Host the People’s Assembly
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Community and Labor Come Together to Host the People’s Assembly

Danny Bakewell, Jr. Executive EditorMay 7, 2020

COVID-19 has brought America face-to-face with its pervasive inequities. The gaping divide in our education system, healthcare, jobs, criminal justice, technology, transportation, and economy, as well as the lack of a social safety net and voter suppression (due to the COVID-19 crisis), all speak to a broken system. But the most significant and most immediate inequity threatening communities of color came to light as data poured in from major cities all over the country, showing how vulnerable the Black and indigenous communities are due to underlying health conditions brought about by systemic racism.

Here’s what it’s like to experience survivor’s guilt amidst the coronavirus pandemic
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Here’s what it’s like to experience survivor’s guilt amidst the coronavirus pandemic

Maya Richard-Craven Special to the LAWTMay 1, 2020

I come from a long line of Black intellectuals.  My family members migrated across the country by wagon alongside white families, integrated classrooms and courts, and worked their way up to found a legacy at prestigious universities like Stanford and USC. Before being allowed the right to converse with white peers, my ancestors fought and died for the right to be free. A notion I often take for granted, but now feel more connected to than ever because there is a mandated stay-at-home order in the city where I live. The freedom to leave my home has been taken away from me, and I feel afraid that more of my freedoms will be taken away as COVID-19 spreads.  

Madcapping and Conning with Trump: Feeding Americans Addiction to Illusions
Dr. Maulana Karenga

Madcapping and Conning with Trump: Feeding Americans Addiction to Illusions

Dr. Maulana KarengaApril 30, 2020

Nurturing and asserting the narrowest and most degraded forms of individualism, they find it difficult to feel for others, delay gratification and think seriously about the consequences of their actions and those of their monster mentor. Afterall, Trump has assured them he needs no mask, argued early that the virus was a hoax, dismissed it for months and made no national preparations for it. Instead, he has offered them safety and salvation behind apartheid walls, bans on Muslims, Africans – Continental and Caribbean, Latinos and Asians, imprisoning and packing immigrants together in unsanitary and disease producing conditions, and urging them, his followers, to rush into the streets and rage against restrictions and rules instituted to save lives, including their own.

AARP and NNPA Join Forces for Riveting Webinar on Saving Black Lives During COVID-19 Pandemic
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AARP and NNPA Join Forces for Riveting Webinar on Saving Black Lives During COVID-19 Pandemic

Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Senior CorrespondentApril 23, 2020

“People are stressed and worried, not only about caring for themselves but protecting and caring for someone in the home or someone long distance,” Choula stated. 

“It’s very important that there is increased conversation with nursing facilities through virtual visitation and phone calls, which is what AARP is advocating.” 

Keeping Vulnerable Homeless Seniors Housed Post-Pandemic
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Keeping Vulnerable Homeless Seniors Housed Post-Pandemic

Sentinel News ServiceApril 16, 2020

“We’re using unprecedented resources to bring people off the streets and indoors during this pandemic,” Supervisor Hahn said. “This is the level of urgency that the homeless crisis has demanded for years and when the day comes that this pandemic is behind us, we need to ensure that we can take advantage of the progress we have made and make sure that the people we have found shelter do not end up back on the streets.” 

Save Black Lives from COVID-19
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Save Black Lives from COVID-19

Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior CorrespondentApril 16, 2020

“We are the number one target for this disease. We have pre-existing conditions, and yet we’re told to go home when we visit the emergency room. We know that there must be some form of regulation in place for testing and getting testing sites and equipment into the community,” said Rep. Brenda Lawrence (D-Michigan).

Black Communities Deserve Health Equity During COVID Crisis
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Black Communities Deserve Health Equity During COVID Crisis

Kristen ClarkeApril 16, 2020

Data revealed from pockets of the country have made clear that the pandemic is having a disproportionate impact on Black Americans. The Trump administration’s lack of transparency and failure to release racial data on a national level has undermined efforts to develop a targeted response to the crisis. As a result, too many of our communities are left without fair and equitable access to testing, care and treatment. 

Minority-Owned Media Not Forgotten in Stimulus Legislation
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Minority-Owned Media Not Forgotten in Stimulus Legislation

Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior CorrespondentApril 2, 2020

Another $10 million has been designated for the Minority Business Development Agency within the Department of Commerce to provide grants to Minority Business Centers and Minority Chambers of Commerce to provide counseling, training, and education on federal resources and business response to the COVID-19 for small businesses.