There are very few statistics in America on how many Black people have died as a result of the coronavirus. There is a high chance everyone knows someone who has died. Everyone is walking around with a broken heart, and dying will become a part of living during the pandemic epidemic. Everything that is bad comes to Blacks first in disproportional numbers. Our healthcare outcomes are the worst in the country, which is no surprise. In addition to all of that, recently more police and white men are using Black people as target practice.
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“Either we return to a globalization of concentration that is authoritarian, and to the same institutional design, or we build a different future” - Alicia Bárcena, executive secretary of the United Nations’ Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, ponders life in the region after COVID-19.
The following is an open letter to Haiti President Jovenel Moise written April 21 by Marleine Bastien, executive director the South Florida-based Family Action Network Movement (FANM). According to the Haiti Press Network, 129 Haitian nationals, including 49 minors, were scheduled to be deported to Haiti on April 23. The letter has been edited for length, style and content.
In this covid-19, coronavirus pandemic, in 2020, Black Americans have the highest morality rates and worse health outcomes of any racial group in the country. There is a major gap in healthcare, education and economics across the country and it becomes imperative for Black Americans – “To Put the Black Community First.”
Dear CBA Family and Friends,
Plagues have been around for centuries. They’ve even been chronicled in the Bible, when locusts, toads, flies, pestilence and diseases tormented mankind.
"The thing we have learned throughout this pandemic is that the best defense against the spread of this virus in our community is our residents having access to accurate and reliable information about the virus and how to protect themselves and their loved ones." - Albert Bryan Jr., Governor, U.S. Virgin Islands
One of the reporters in our Sheldon office received an e-mail a week ago stating his child was no longer qualified to be taken care of by the local day-care facility. The e-mail came on Friday and the change went into effect on Monday. Never mind that the reporter’s spouse works at the local hospital and 4-month-old has been in the care of the facility since January.
The Democrats are struggling in the 2020 presidential campaign. Senator, Bernie Sanders is leading the pack of Democratic candidates, but he is not really a Democrat, so the campaign is really confusing. Senator Sanders is an independent, and a socialist, and with the label of socialist, he will probably lose to President Trump.
It was only just over 100 years ago, on January 1, 1914, when the world's first scheduled passenger airline service took off. Since then, air travel has been taken for granted. In the interim, the world has experienced World War I, the Spanish flu, the Great Depression of the 1930s, World War II and the 2008 financial crisis. Advent COVID-19 and we find that the world's passenger airlines have been grounded and some will never return.
African people in Brazil are facing an increase in systematic extermination orchestrated by the white supremacist government of Jair Bolsonaro, an ally of Donald Trump, during the Coronavirus pandemic.
On October 30, 2019 following an in depth, fair public procurement RFP process as determined by the Office of Inspector General, Mayor Carlos Gimenez signed a letter of recommendation for the Advanced Traffic Management System. This system will provide traffic lights throughout the county with the technology to improve the flow of traffic and decrease traffic congestion.
