Category: COVID-19

NNPA NEWSWIRE — “You know how to ask the right questions,” the late John Murphy, then-assistant managing editor of the Times-Tribune newspaper in Scranton, Pennsylvania, once told me. “You seem to know what to say.” However, if Murphy were alive today, I would tell him that the coronavirus diagnosis that I’ve received has rendered me […]

There has been a huge movement in the black community to turn their buying power toward black-owned business. One entrepreneur based in St. Louis has found a way to bring those companies right to your doorstep. In 2016, Oran Taylor founded TransTaylor Logistics, a distribution company offering free, same-day delivery on everyday, household, and personal care products ranging from detergent […]

The new coronavirus doesn’t discriminate. But physicians in public health and on the front lines say that in the response to the pandemic, they can already see the emergence of familiar patterns of racial and economic bias. In one analysis, it appears doctors may be less likely to refer African Americans for testing when they […]

The NBA season has been suspended due to the new coronavirus pandemic. Several NBA players have been infected with the virus. Boston Celtics’ Marcus Smart was sickened by COVID-19 but has made a full recovery and will be donating his blood for an experimental treatment for the virus, according to People. By Cedric ‘BIG CED’ Thornton, Black EnterpriseFeatured Image, Getty ImagesFull article @ Black […]

“We are literally being put up against a wall and making a choice between life and death, between working and eating or not working and not eating.” Ezzie Dominguez estimates she gets around two hours of sleep every night.  The 38-year-old wakes up each morning at 6 a.m. to head to her first job as […]

Atlanta’s hospitals could reach capacity by May 3 if the current rate of coronavirus infection continues,  Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms said Monday.  The Atlanta mayor spoke on a public online conference call from her home where she is self-quarantining with her husband and four children. As of noon Monday, Georgia had 2,809 confirmed cases and […]

With grants and marketing spending, the social media giant hopes to support outlets doing essential local reporting but struggling with a drop in advertising. Facebook announced on Monday that it would dole out $25 million in grants to local news outlets and spend $75 million in a marketing drive aimed at news organizations internationally in […]

A mourner came to Albany, Ga., to attend the funeral of a retired janitor. After a pause while the infections incubated, the virus swept through the community. It was an old-fashioned Southern funeral. There was a repast table crammed with casseroles, Brunswick stew, fried chicken and key lime cake. Andrew Jerome Mitchell, a retired janitor, […]