By Charlene Crowell As of mid-September, at least 197,000 people died from COVID-19 according to Johns Hopkins University. Beyond these fatalities, the number of COVID-related cases diagnoses reached 6.5 million people and continues to rise. Beyond the health effects, according to the the U.S. Census Bureau, as of Aug. 31, over 80...
Black Lives Matters T-shirts and Masks – Who Profits?
By Julianne Malveaux I always smile when I see Black Lives Matter T-shirts until I saw one gracing the back of a White man who had on both a BLM T-Shirt and a MAGA (Make America Great Again) hat. I started to either take a photo because I knew somebody...
When Police Stop Black Men, The Effects Reach into Their Homes and Families
By Deadric T. Williams and Armon Perry By Deadric T. Williams and Armon Perry While much of the world was sheltering in place in the fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic, many Americans’ undivided attention was focused squarely on Minneapolis, Minnesota, where George Floyd was killed at the hands – and...
Lawlessness Disorder and America’s Mistreatment of its Black Citizens
By Julianne Malveaux When a 17-year-old White boy walks down the streets of Kenosha, Wisc., with a loaded automatic weapon, he is cheered and thanked by the police and offered a water bottle. No matter that he'd killed two people and wounded another. His attorney says it was self-defense, and...
Why is Fair Housing Still a Distant Journey for Black America?
By Charlene CrowellNNPA Newswire Public pressure to restore a key HUD rule has united civil rights, public and private sector stakeholders in a swelling and nearly daily drumbeat of concern calling for fair housing to be supported and HUD’s replacement rule be rescinded. On July 23 the rule known as Affirmatively...
The Impact of COVID-19 in Our Community: Let’s Not Put Our Health at Risk
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) cite several possible reasons that Black Americans are more affected. One is that many of us live in more highly populated areas where it’s more difficult to practice physical distancing from one another. Many of us also live in...
No Economical Victory Lap
By Julianne Malveaux The June Employment Situation report, released on July 2, showed a continued decline in the unemployment rate. Thanks to coronavirus, the rate shot up to 14.7 percent in April and declined to 11.1 percent in June. About 4.8 million more people were on payrolls in June than...
Rupture, Reckoning, & Reset: The New Call to Action
By JB Borders I haven’t commented publicly about economic, political or many cultural affairs since Barack Obama’s election in 2008. That event was such an unexpected, historic surprise; a moment-hopping harbinger of what could have become a more mature approach to race relations and power-sharing in this country. It would...
COVID-19 Has Devastated The Black Community — Here’s Why And What Needs To Change
By Akilah A. Jefferson Shah, M.D., MScThis article originally appeared in Huff Post I am Black. I am a woman. I am a physician. My education took me from public schools in New Orleans, Louisiana, to the Ivy League halls of Brown University. I returned to post-Katrina New Orleans for...
The Black Church Faces An Atypical Crisis
Lisa Olivia Fitch, Editor in Chief, Our Weekly News If a Tsunami happens on the other side of the world, some may be unaware and unaffected. Others may hear the news and be aware of the disaster, but still be unaffected. Still others may be aware and only inconvenienced by...