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.
Author: Carma Henry
Carma Henry
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On Wednesday, April 29, 2020, Charles Bernard Adderley, husband, father, brother and grandfather, passed away of cardiac arrest, at the age of 78, 10 years after a subdural hematoma and stroke.
As news hit Monday afternoon that legendary DFW sports journalist Roger B. Brown passed away days after his 61st birthday, many of his friends and former media colleagues took to social media to express their feelings about the beloved “Roger B.”
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The Ohio-class guided-missile submarine USS Florida (SSGN 728) returned to its homeport of Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay, Georgia, May 9, after operating forward deployed for more than two years supporting the U.S. Africa, Central and European Combatant Commands.
Since our last Black AIDS Update at the end of March, so much has changed, and new developments related to the COVID-19 pandemic are happening at a breakneck pace. Since it began, BAI has pivoted so much of our programs and operations to include a robust response to COVID-19 while not straying from our core work: ending the HIV epidemic among Black people. What’s been increasingly clear amidst all this, though, is that there will be no going back to ‘normal.’