A local Black-owned funeral home in Albany, Georgia, is shocked to learn they unknowingly hosted two funerals that reportedly infected at least 20 people with coronavirus including the pastor who delivered one of the eulogies. Sadly, that pastor has since died from COVID-19. Local health […]
In the grainy cell phone video, the prison block is dim and the shouting muffled—but the sight of wafting, gray smoke is unmistakable. “It’s a nonviolent protest going on right now because the officers, in the middle of the coronavirus, have refused us electricity […]
When Dave Kyu, 34, an arts administrator in Philadelphia, realized that he would be working from home for the foreseeable future, he began to fantasize about the projects he could now complete around the house. “We went and bought all this paint and cabinet […]
Dolly Parton has donated $1m (£800,000) to research into a coronavirus vaccine, as she begins a new storytelling series for children in lockdown. The country music star wrote on Instagram: My longtime friend Dr Naji Abumrad, who’s been involved in research at Vanderbilt for many years, […]
Ellis Marsalis Jr., jazz pianist, teacher and patriarch of a New Orleans musical clan that includes famed performer sons Wynton and Branford, has died after battling pneumonia brought on by the new coronavirus, one of his sons said late Wednesday. He was 85. Ellis […]
NEW YORK — The coronavirus careening through New York City has brought one of the world’s premier medical capitals to its knees. The city’s cash-strapped public hospitals were predictably overwhelmed by the breadth of the virus: Despite relocating certain patients and rearranging wards to […]
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