Africa — where lifesaving equipment like ventilators, oxygen and masks, and even basic necessities like water and soap, are in short supply — could become the next epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic, the World Health Organization has warned. Michel Yao, the WHO’s emergency operations manager […]
The coronavirus is tearing through African American communities across the country and now workers at retail and grocery stores feel increasingly vulnerable. “I’m up front and center with a lot of customers,” said Pam Hill, a cashier at Albertsons in Los Angeles and a […]
More than 100 million children could be at risk for measles because countries around the world are suspending national immunization programs in order to reduce the risk of coronavirus infection, international public health leaders warned on Monday. So far, 24 low- and middle-income countries, […]
When prisoners at four federal penitentiaries began rioting in the fall of 1995, the U.S. Bureau of Prisons did something it said was unprecedented: It imposed a nationwide lockdown, shutting tens of thousands of incarcerated people in their cells and dorms. Lockdowns over COVID-19 are much […]
Washington, D.C. – The NAACP, in conjunction with BET, will host part two of their four-part virtual town hall series, “Unmasked: COVID-19” on Wednesday, April 15, at 8 PM ET/ 5 PM PT. The hour-long call will focus on naming and addressing the real trauma […]
The United States (U.S.) has been accused of doing a long list of deplorable things, including a number of evil deeds committed against its own citizens. As the U.S. has become the world’s epicenter of today’s global COVID-19 pandemic, public health bureaus in America are […]
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