     Former first lady Michelle Obama has led several global initiatives surrounding education, and she wants to ensure that the youth are connected to literature amid the coronavirus lockdown. According to CNN, she is launching a virtual weekly storytime series for children.
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JoâVianni Smith, a 15-year old girl from California who loved playing softball, has reportedly committed suicide after struggling to cope with being isolated during the lockdown imposed during the coronavirus pandemic.
To actively encourage Black youth to focus on being counted in the 2020 Decennial Census, despite the Coronavirus (COVID 19) global pandemic, the National Coalition on Black Civic Participationâs (NCBCP) Black Youth Vote (BYV!) youth civic leadership and power-building program and its Unity Diaspora Coalition (UDC) 2020 Campaignâs national and state-based partner organizations will launch â#CountMeBlack Youth Census 2020 Week (Count Me Black Youth Week),â Monday, April 27 to Friday, May 1, 2020.
    PHILADEPHIA, PA â Dr. Ala Stanford and other African American doctors (mostly women) from Pennsylvania have launched the Black Doctors COVID-19 Consortium to provide free mobile coronavirus testing to underserved communities in hopes to prevent further spread of the virus, especially among Black people.
    With record-breaking coronavirus-related deaths overwhelming morgues and mortuaries in New York City, the public cemetery on Hart Island is seeing an increase in burialsâfrom 24 a week to 24 a day. By April 13, more than 10,000 people in the city had died from COVID-19, after daily deaths surpassed 700 for five days.
    The five-year-old daughter of two first responders has died in Michigan after a coronavirus infection left her likely brain-dead on a ventilator, her family says.
NAACP, Minority Financial Institutions Call for Equity in Congressional Response to COVID-19
    Although alcohol sales in the United States have increased during the coronavirus pandemic, other countries are taking aggressive cautionary measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
âOperation Loveâ meals and gift baskets were delivered to seniors including retired nurses, caregivers and others that have labored in the community for many years among others. All have in some way or another added to the betterment of Los Angeles over the decades
Decades before todayâs brand leaders in fashion, music, and sports leveraged their personas into market share, Graves perfected the blueprint. In the â80s,