Month: April 2020

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     “In St. Louis, if you look at the number of zip codes that have the highest number of cases, they are in the African American community. So, this disease is impacting us and even in a more significant way,” McMillan tells Wright during the riveting discussion.

COVID-19 has not affected all industries and businesses equally, with some experiencing a huge spike in sales during the pandemic. Cannabis is just one of the markets that has seen sales surge with more Americans staying home and sparking up.

Broward County is demanding citizens to wear masks while inside essential businesses.

Spurred to action by the mounting critical shortage of masks to protect South Florida’s first responders, the owners of Pompano Beach-based manufacturer Life Wear Technologies leveraged their supply chain connections and procured 3,000 additional masks to donate to South Florida’s first responders.

Filmmaker, actor, and playwright Tyler Perry is once again making headlines for helping those who are largely affected by the coronavirus pandemic. Under the name “Atlanta Angel,” he reportedly paid for the groceries of all elderly shoppers at over 70 supermarkets in Atlanta and New Orleans.

Critically, as long as the loans go toward things like maintaining all employees’ salaries and keeping the lights on and the doors open, they will be forgiven in full, so essentially this is a gran. In other words, today, Black-owned small businesses; salons, restaurants, boutiques, you name it, there is guaranteed cash with no strings attached waiting for you, but you have to apply.

— 21,628: Total number of cases. — 261: Increase in cases from a Tuesday morning count. — 571: Florida resident deaths. — 47: Increase in deaths…

  “Xfinity is making thousands of hours of educational programming and resources available to our customers through Xfinity on Demand as we know how challenging it is for families right now who are suddenly home-schooling young children — many with both parents working, as well,” said Rebecca Heap, Comcast senior vice president of video and entertainment.

     Radical Muslim tribesmen killed four people on Tuesday including a Christian pastor and burned down a town’s only school during an attack in Central Nigeria.