Health
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COVID-19 Cases Surging Among Blacks — But Why?
African Americans represent a sizable share of COVID-19 cases and deaths despite being just a fraction of the total population.
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Caring for Seniors During the Coronavirus Crisis
At a time when the spread of the novel coronavirus has sparked concern about the care of the elderly, those…
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Coronavirus Update: Strategies to Survive, Sustain and Succeed
As Americans try to cope with the shutdown of classrooms and college campuses, restaurants in which they can no longer…
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Fauci: Blacks Not Infected with Coronavirus at Higher Rate
The government's leading expert on infectious diseases said it's not the case that African Americans are getting infected more often…
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Upcoming Week Will be ‘Our Pearl Harbor Moment,’ Surgeon General Warns
As people notably flouted social distancing guidelines regarding the coronavirus pandemic over the weekend and President Trump claimed to "see…
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NNPA Senior Correspondent Stacy Brown, Wife Test Positive for COVID-19
The National Newspaper Publishers Association has been hit again by the coronavirus. NNPA Senior Correspondent Stacy M. Brown and his…
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Blacks Make up Majority of Coronavirus Cases, Deaths in Michigan: Report
Black people make up the majority of both coronavirus cases and deaths in Michigan, marking the first time race has…
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Acclaimed Houston Forward Times Columnist Tests Positive for Coronavirus, Admitted to ICU
Jeffrey L. Boney, an award-winning writer for the Houston Forward Times and the National Newspaper Publishers Association, is in the…
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Men, Younger Residents Make Up Bulk of D.C. Coronavirus Cases
The groups of D.C. residents with the most known cases of the novel coronavirus are people in their 20s and…
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IN MEMORIAM: African Americans Who Have Died of COVID-19
The inaccurate internet memes and false online conspiracies that “Blacks can’t get coronavirus” are contrary to reality: African Americans are…
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