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Honoring Black History Week #2: Black Owned Barbershops & Salons
Since the turn of the 19th century, beauty salons and barber shops have served as special places among African Americans. They have been places not only to get hair care services, but locations where black people could talk about issues of importance in the community. There were spaces where
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Leading CEOs Champion Equity for the Black Community in Accessing COVID-19 Vaccines - The Washington Informer
Six of the nation’s largest non-governmental, non-profit membership organizations announced the launch of a vaccine equity and education initiative. The post Leading CEOs Champion Equity for the Black Community in Accessing COVID-19 Vaccines appeared first on The Washington Informer.
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In pandemic, more people choose to die at home - Black News Channel
By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH The Associated Press MISSION, Kan. (AP) — Mortuary owner Brian Simmons has been making more trips to homes to pick up bodies to be cremated and embalmed since the pandemic hit. With COVID-19 devastating communities in Missouri, his two-person crews regularly arrive at homes
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Illinois Redirects Almost 100,000 Unused Vaccine doses | BlackDoctor.org - Where Wellness & Culture Connect
Illinois public health officials have reduced coronavirus restrictions in a southwest region that includes Monroe and Clinton counties Thursday. This means that the entire state is now under the same rules that were put in place this summer under phase 4 of J.B. Pritzer's reopening plan. Chicago
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Vaccine delays leave grocery workers feeling expendable - Black News Channel
By ALEXANDRA OLSON, DEE-ANN DURBIN and ANNE D'INNOCENZIO AP Business Writers As panicked Americans cleared supermarkets of toilet paper and food last spring, grocery employees gained recognition as among the most indispensable of the pandemic's front-line workers. A year later, most of those
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Racial disparity seen in U.S. vaccination drive - DefenderNetwork.com
A racial gap has opened up in the nation's COVID-19 vaccination drive, with Black Americans in many places lagging behind whites in receiving shots, an Associated Press analysis shows. An early look at the 17 states and two cities that have released racial breakdowns through Jan.
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Nine-year-old among three new COVID-related deaths in Barbados - Stabroek News
(Barbados Nation) A nine-year-old is among three people who passed away as a result of coronavirus (COVID-19), bringing the number of deaths to 28, the Ministry of Health and Wellness said a short while
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NYC nursing home accused of giving veteran patients experimental virus drugs - TheGrio
A nursing home in New York is under scrutiny for giving veteran patients experimental drugs to treat COVID-19 while some... View Article The post NYC nursing home accused of giving veteran patients experimental virus drugs appeared first on TheGrio.
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More People Choosing To Die At Home As Hospitals Limit Visitations Amid Pandemic
MISSION, Kan. (AP) — Mortuary owner Brian Simmons has been making more trips to homes to pick up bodies to be cremated and embalmed since the pandemic hit. With COVID-19…
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A $15 Minimum Wage Under Biden Is Crucial to Racial Justice
… of Floyd, we also witnessed Black Americans contracting a deadly respiratory disease … that were designed to exclude African-Americans in the same way that … has spread through prisons where African-Americans are disproportionately incarcerated, through nursing …
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Some Health Workers Say They're Not Refusing The Vaccine, They Just Need Some Time - African American News Today - EIN Presswire
It had been months since Tremellia Hobbs had an excuse to bring out the pompoms. Before the pandemic, they were a crowd favorite during movie nights and
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Black History Profiles | New York Carib News
Following an academic year (September 2019 to June 2020) as Interim President of York College, CUNY, Dr. Berenecea Johnson Eanes was appointed permanent of the institution. This appointment marks Dr. Eanes’ return to CUNY, having served for six years as Vice President for Student Affairs at John
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President Biden urges Congress to expedite stimulus payments: 'We don't have a second to waste' - TheGrio
For those who have been waiting for their next stimulus checks, It appears President Joe Biden is now urging Congress to expedite them.... View Article The post President Biden urges Congress to expedite stimulus payments: 'We don't have a second to waste' appeared first on TheGrio.
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Isolation Needed For Our Future Togetherness
Isolation Needed For Our Future Togetherness By Rev. Dr. Betty W. Holley, Contributing Writer The era of COVID-19 has challenged our lives since March 2020 [...]
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100 million Americans brace for more cold, ice and snow - TheGrio
Winter weather that has overwhelmed power grids unprepared for climate change and left millions without electricity in record-breaking cold kept... View Article The post 100 million Americans brace for more cold, ice and snow appeared first on TheGrio.
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Park in Washington renamed to honor Sen. Rosa Franklin, here are little-known facts about the outstanding stateswoman - Face2Face Africa
Franklin Park in Tacoma, Washington is getting a new meaning to its name. The Washington State park was named after founding father Benjamin Franklin. However, after a unanimous vote by the Metro Parks Tacoma, the park is now named after the first Black woman to be elected into the Washington State
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Today in 1864, Rebecca Crumpler Became the First Black American Woman to Earn an M.D.
Photo credits: PBS/HubHistory Rebecca Lee Crumpler challenged the prejudice that prevented African Americans from pursuing careers in medicine. She became the first African American woman in the United States to earn an M.D. degree-a distinction formerly credited to Rebecca Cole. Although little
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2nd ex-Cuomo staffer's harassment claim triggers call for his resignation : TheGrio
Another former aide has come forward and accused Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo of sexual harassment. Charlotte Bennett is... View Article The post 2nd ex-staffer accuses Andrew Cuomo of sexual harassment, triggering resignation call appeared first on TheGrio.
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Black Woman on Track to be First to Head Medicare, Medicaid | BlackDoctor.org - Where Wellness & Culture Connect
First reported by The Washington Post and then confirmed by four other sources, it's said that the new head of Medicare/Medicaid will be a Black woman, a first for the healthcare conglomerate. President Joe Biden has picked a former Obama administration official to run the Centers for Medicare and
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New study identifies best practices to improve breastfeeding in African American community - African American News Today - EIN Presswire
… to improve breastfeeding in the African American community leverages the opinions, … to policies and practices influencing African American breastfeeding initiation rates. The … decision to initiate breastfeeding by African American mothers is not solely …
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OP-ED: Talking About Death Won't Kill You | Dallas Weekly
Part of the reason African Americans are often overtreated at the end of life relates to our experiences being denied care by a racist healthcare system. We may ask for and receive far more intensive and invasive treatments at the end of life, because we fought for the right to receive care and we
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Viral Vegas: Deaths jump, tourism slumps amid long pandemic - Black News Channel
By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Six weeks ago, thousands of New Year's revelers gathered beneath the neon-lit marquees on the Las Vegas Strip — even though the big annual fireworks show was called off due to the coronavirus pandemic. The sight of the big crowd, including many people
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Over 9,000 virus patients sent into NY nursing homes - TheGrio
More than 9,000 recovering coronavirus patients in New York state were released from hospitals into nursing homes early in the... View Article The post Over 9,000 virus patients sent into NY nursing homes appeared first on TheGrio.
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New initiative aims to increase prostate cancer screening in African Americans men - African American News Today - EIN Presswire
… this health disparity. The Cleveland African American Prostate Cancer Project, directed by … program, increase the number of African American men who receive baseline prostate … fight against prostate cancer for African American men." Catharine Grimes, …
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Nursing Homes Set Goal To Get 75% Of Staff Vaccinated By June 30 - Milwaukee Community Journal
Long Term Care Providers Are Encouraging Staff To Receive Vaccinations To Protect Fellow Colleagues And Vulnerable Older Residents WASHINGTON, D.C. – The American Health Care Association (AHCA), representing more than 14,000 nursing homes and long term care facilities across the country, and
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Tembisa Hospital CEO suspension ‘a smokescreen’, says nursing union
The Health Ombudsman Malekgapuru Makgoba found that Tembisa Hospital failed to administer proper care to Shonisani Lethole
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Why some senior living communities are struggling to get COVID-19 vaccines for their residents | L.A. Focus News
Residents at the Bridgecreek Holiday Retirement Community in West Covina, Tom Rathman, left, Matthew Richardson, and Gene Trinaystich, right, wait to get their COVID-19 inoculations from a vaccination team coordinated by the L.A. County Department of Public Health on Sunday, February
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Kenya: MPs, Companies Face Fines Over 'Jerusalema' Videos
[Nairobi News] Members of Parliament, businesses and corporations in Kenya and across the region will soon be forced to part with thousands of shillings as fine over the Jerusalema Challenge dance challenge.
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NY Gov. Cuomo acknowledges behavior seen as 'flirtation' - Black News Channel
By KAREN MATTHEWS and MARINA VILLENEUVE Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo acknowledged for the first time Sunday that some of his behavior with women had been 'misinterpreted as unwanted flirtation,' and said he would cooperate with a sexual harassment investigation
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'In a queue to die': SA's nurses work in fear and exhaustion | News24
Africa's worst-infected country may be over the peak of a deadly second wave of coronavirus, but a surge in patient numbers in recent weeks has left nurses drained.
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