Author: Carma Henry

     “I’m not calling Mr. DeSantis a racist, I’m simply saying the racists believe he’s a racist.”

     “My brother literally walked across the yard, walked into the back fence to get to the side door, had his subway [sandwich] and mask in one hand keys in the other, UNLOCKED AND OPENED THE DOOR and stepped in the house before” he was shot, Harper wrote.

Barack Obama And The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

     While the CDC said there should be enough doses for as many as 20 million people to receive vaccination by the end of December, health officials expect a much larger supply in the coming months. Still, with a justified dis-trust of unproven vaccines, and a perceived limited participation by African Americans in clinical trials that led to the development of the COVID-19 vaccine, many question whether African Americans will accept vaccination.

Francesca McCall, a single mother of seven, is now raising 12 children after her sister and her sister’s husband both died from COVID-19, leaving behind their 5 children. She immediately took responsibility to take care of their kids.

      As with many issues raised by this pandemic, the problem of hazard pay is fraught with deep, multiple inequities.  Like the compensation that traditionally remunerated particularly dangerous work in such fields as military service, mining, or construction, hazard pay was introduced early in the pandemic to recognize the risks and dangers that frontline essential workers face every day.  

Earth to Portland: Dispatch from the Nation’s Problem Child

THE CATICLYSIM ATTACK ON CIVILIZED KINGSHIP GOVERNMENT

Meet Kamala Harris’ Unapologetically Black Senior Staff

     According to a recent Duke University panel at the school’s Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity, many Black and Brown individuals face challenges that affect their and educators’ ability to resume in-person education safely.