The Florida A&M University (FAMU) Bragg Stadium parking lot will host a walk-up COVID-19 testing site beginning on Saturday, April 25.
Month: April 2020
Frasier was born and raised in Fort Lauderdale, first graduating from Dillard in 2003, who then went on to be an alumni of Florida Atlantic University. He returned to Fort Lauderdale where he coached youth football teams. He had taught at Dillard since 2009, before returning to coach the Panthers Middle School team in 2013.
Coach Eddie Frazier’s last kick-off
“We are the number one target for this disease. We have pre-existing conditions, and yet we’re told to go home when we visit the emergency room. We know that there must be some form of regulation in place for testing and getting testing sites and equipment into the community,” Lawrence added.
“The FBI assesses hate crime incidents against Asian Americans likely will surge across the United States, due to the spread of coronavirus disease … endangering Asian American communities,” read a report compiled by the FBI’s Houston office and sent to local law enforcement across America. “The FBI makes this assessment based on the assumption that a portion of the US public will associate COVID-19 with China and Asian American populations.”
The IRS will base the payments The IRS will base the payments on the adjusted gross in-come of taxpayers’ 2019 return. If a 2019 return hasn’t been filed (the deadline has been extended for two months), the IRS will use information from the 2018 return. If the return doesn’t contain direct deposit information, or if the IRS doesn’t have returns from 2018 or 2019, a paper check will be issued later.
“States MUST start tracking and reporting race data in connection with #Covid_19. As of Friday morning, African Americans made up almost half of Milwaukee County’s 945 #Covid_19cases and 81% of all 27 deaths in a county whose population is 26% Black,” wrote attorney Kristen Clarke of the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law on April 3rd.
At least three more pastors have lost their lives to the new coronavirus in just over a week, leaving more churches across the nation mourning in the fallout from the pandemic.
“African Americans never really recovered from the housing crash and economic meltdown and that reality is going to be a very important factor for Black people, especially since the U.S. may be going into some form of depression,” said Mr. Fletcher, former president of TransAfrica Forum and a senior scholar with the Institute for Policy Studies. “I saw a report last week that shows the Washington metropolitan area could lose 35 percent of small businesses. Add a layer of race onto that—lower savings rates and pro-fit margins and most small biz not able to sustain themselves for three months and the problem becomes clear.”
My 22-year-old little sister tested positive for COVID-19 almost two weeks ago. She’s a healthy, active EMT who recently passed her exams to become a firefighter – someone who’d be considered low risk.