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Trump’s Florida sanctuary becomes a gilded petri dish for a global disease

March 18, 2020 Carma Henry 0

     At least three people who visited Mar-a-Lago in the past 10 days have tested positive for the deadly virus and were spotted in photographs with the president and other club members. A top Brazilian official, Ambassador to the U.S. Nestor Forster, who was seated with the president at a Saturday night dinner at the club, tested positive for COVID-19. So did Fabio Wajngarten, the press secretary to President Jair Bolsonaro who was spotted standing next to Trump in an Instagram post. An email to Trump supporters who attended a fundraiser at the club last Sunday suggests there was now also a mysterious third person who was at the club last weekend with the virus. […]

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CDC Removes Data on Number of People Tested for Coronavirus from Website as Infection Numbers Spike

March 12, 2020 Carma Henry 0

  There have been more than 89,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19 around the world and over 3,000 deaths. The vast majority of cases have been in China where over 45,000 have been diagnosed. The illness is typically mild, featuring a cough, fever, and shortness of breath. Similar to the flu, people with underlying conditions and those who are elderly are at greatest risk. […]

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Rep. John Lewis Leads 55th Anniversary Selma March

March 12, 2020 Carma Henry 0

“Fifty-five years ago, a few of our children attempted to march across this bridge. We were beaten, we were tear gassed. I thought I was going to die on this bridge, but somehow and someway, God almighty helped me here,” Lewis offered while several people held the 80-year-old icon up to make sure the large crowd in attendance could see him and hear his encouraging words. […]

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Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. Endorses Sanders for President

March 12, 2020 Carma Henry 0

     The “Black Firewall” has changed the dynamics of the 2020 presidential campaign.  The question is what has the firewall earned?  What will be the return on the Black firewall’s political investment?  And what difference will the political contribution that the firewall is making, make in the individual lives of African Americans and in the African American community? […]

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Biden Says, ‘The Black Vote Will Determine the Nominee’

March 5, 2020 Carma Henry 0

     “I got started in the African American community. I got involved in the Civil Rights Movement when I was a kid. I helped desegregate a movie theater, that kind of thing,” Biden noted. “I was the only guy who worked in the projects on the East East Side who was White. That’s how I got started, and the Black community is the community that, as we say, brung me to the dance. That’s how I got elected.” […]