All posts tagged "COVID-19"

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By Catalina Jaramillo, FactCheck.org and Kate Yandell, FactCheck.org Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s battle against vaccines — and against the institutions that promote them — goes back to...

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By Hazel Trice Edney (Trice Edney Wire) – Thousands of Black people had protested and many had died at the hands of police, White...

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The latest variant, or sublineage, of SARS-CoV-2 to emerge on the scene, BA.2.86, has public health experts on alert as COVID-19 hospitalizations begin to...

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By Breanna Reeves Black people are nearly four times more likely to be arrested for marijuana possession than a white person, even though Black and...

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By Irv Randolph Many conservatives and progressives finally found something they agree on. They hate the debt ceiling deal. The deal suspends the nation’s...

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By Sean J. Ennevor, MD They may prove useful against other viruses, bacteria, even cancer  Last week, the World Health Organization announced that the COVID...

Editorial

By Rosie Allen-Herring A new United Way of the National Capital Area (United Way NCA) report on DC sheds light on the financial hardship of those who...

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By Marian Wright Edelman When a guest at the white-tie Gridiron Club Dinner earlier this month in Washington, D.C., collapsed, hit her head on a...

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By Megan Sayles,AFRO Business Writer,msayles@afro.com When the COVID-19 pandemic began to hinder employment in the U.S., the federal government worked quickly to roll out...