Non-Hispanic Black males now have the lowest life expectancy of any group. The new data shows that African Americans on average live six years less in life expectancy than Whites. The Covid-19 pandemic hit Black and Americans harder than any other group of Americans. Underlying health issues and lack of health care were a factor.
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Chiquita Brooks-LaSure has been chosen by President Joe Biden to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. This means that she will become the first Black woman to serve as the agency’s administrator once confirmed by the Senate. The national health insurance program spends almost $600 billion to $700 billion dollars a year on healthcare for it’s members.
A Fort Lauderdale, Florida, officer who shot a protester in the face with a rubber bullet at a Black Lives Matter protest last year, leaving her with horrific injuries, has been cleared of wrongdoing.
“Never again should an unarmed individual be murdered or brutalized by someone who is supposed to serve and protect them. Never again should a family have to turn on the TV and watch the murder of their loved one repeatedly. “Never again should the world be subject to witnessing what we saw happen to George Floyd in the streets in Minnesota.”
A rabies alert was issued Monday for a portion of Fort Lauderdale after a raccoon tested positive.
“It is my distinct honor to congratulate the Westside Gazette on its 50th anniversary. This weekly paper continues to be known for its crusade against racism and injustice.
This week’s show titled: “Surviving the prison system” will have two of the most prolific soldiers for defending and getting brothers and sisters out of the “belly of the beast”, Amy Ralston Povah, a clemency worker extraordinaire and renown attorney Nkechi Taifa. These two sisters have done remarkable work to gain the freedom of brothers and sisters. Our other two guest are two brothers who served over 63 years between them: Rufus Rochelle and Darryl Hope.
Former NYPD officer Ray Wood was, “tasked with ensuring that Malcolm X’s security detail was arrested days prior to the assassination, guaranteeing Malcolm X didn’t have door security while at the Audubon Ballroom, where he was killed on Feb. 21, 1965,” says Attorney Benjamin Crump during a press conference at the former at the old Audubon, the site where Malcolm X was assassinated. The venue has since been renamed The Shabazz Center.
Colorado police and paramedics who stopped Elijah McClain made a series of crucial errors that ended in the young man’s 2019 death, findings of an independent probe revealed on Monday.
Broward County Commissioner Dale V.C. Holness presents Publisher Bobby R. Henry, Sr. with a framed proclamation in honor of the 50th anniversary of the Westside Gazette Newspaper.