COVID-19 outbreak at the prison, the 37-year-old former inmate is now holed up at a hotel for a voluntary 14-day quarantine –- a confinement of sorts but one far more pleasant than what he was used to. watch Netflix. I get to sleep on a nice comfy bed,” Harrington told NBC News by phone from his hotel room.
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And even when more and more reports of deaths from the virus came piling up, I still did not take it seriously enough. Then one day, mom said she was not feeling good, and that was the start of it all. In my head, I thought that’s just mom being mom. She sometimes doesn’t feel well. Then when dad got sick, mom stayed in her room, and dad stayed in the basement. I, of course, thought this was unnecessary.
Amid butchered bodies and scattered wreckage, surviving villagers found one of the attackers’ mobile phones. The phone was not password-protected. Among the 26 phone numbers saved to the phone were direct mobile phone numbers for Nigeria’s army and police officers—the very people who should be hunting terrorists.
“I’m going to take a moment to dedicate this legislation to my dear sister, who is dying in a hospital in St. Louis, Missouri right now, infected by the coronavirus,” Waters announced as she voted on a new coronavirus small business package.
“All of my work throughout my life has been working on behalf of low-income Black neighborhoods, helping them to create strategies to promote excellence within their communities so they’re agents of their own uplift,” Woodson said.
The collapse in advertising revenue during the pandemic ex-acerbated the already perilous financial position of news outlets, who have been decimated by Google and Facebook’s monopolistic actions. The Tampa Bay Times was even forced to cut back to two days a week of printed copies. The forgivable loans will allow these newsrooms to obtain some sense of normalcy but will not nearly restore the damage done during this crisis.
Songstress Beyoncé is stepping up to provide support for vulnerable groups impacted by the coronavirus pandemic. According to Vulture, she has donated $6 million towards COVID-19 relief efforts.
The Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) has some criticism for a new Senate bill in response to the coronavirus pandemic.
A group of national Black faith and civil rights leaders along with the heads of the largest historically Black religious denominations are encouraging communities to stay at home in states where stay at home orders are being lifted until there is evidence that it is safe.
Thanks to the efforts of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), Democrats have secured $60 billion in new Small Business Administration PPP funding dedicated to small lenders and community-based financial institutions. They’ve also secured $50 billion for the SBA’s Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) program, which will allow approximately $300 billion in loans to small businesses.