WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump asserted Monday that he is the ultimate decision-maker for determining how and when to relax the nation’s social distancing guidelines as he grows anxious to reopen the coronavirus-stricken country as soon as possible. Governors and local leaders, who have instituted mandatory restrictions that have the force of law, have expressed concern that Trump’s […]
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Faced with the threat of overburdened hospitals, states across the country are converting convention centers, sports facilities and performance spaces into backup treatment sites for coronavirus patients. Tennessee is no exception. What some Memphis residents don’t get is why in their city, a shopping center in the middle of a predominantly black, low-income […]
Tributes are pouring in Thursday after the husband of a viral Arizona grandmother died of coronavirus. Wanda Dench, who has since recovered from COVID-19, gained viral fame in 2016 after mistakenly inviting a stranger to Thanksgiving Dinner. The news of Lonnie Dench’s death was shared on social media by that Thanksgiving stranger turned family friend, […]
Just after paying $21,000 in tips for waitresses at his favorite restaurant, Tyler Perry is continuing to bless people during the COVID-19 pandemic crisis. On Wednesday, April 8, he paid for groceries for a number of senior shoppers during "senior hour" at grocery stores in Atlanta and his hometown New Orleans.
In Mississippi, a beloved barber has died from COVID-19 after he didn’t shut down and continued to accept clients while the epidemic rages. Eugene Thompson, 46, of Brookhaven, Mississippi, died last Saturday (April 4), less than a month after testing positive for the novel disease. LIKE US ON FACEBOOK. FOLLOW US ON INSTAGRAM & TWITTER. SUBSCRIBE TO OUR YOUTUBE. In […]
The Grammy-winning rapper is putting her own money where her mouth is to help those in need during the pandemic.
A white middle-age Kentucky doctor has been charged for strangling a teenage Black girl because she and her friends weren’t practicing social distancing. John Rademaker, 57, is seen in a viral video storming toward the teenagers, forcefully shoving three white girls out of his way to get at the lone Black girl, who he grabs […]
NEW YORK (AP) — The coronavirus outbreak has thrown at least 16.8 million Americans onto the unemployment rolls in just three weeks, underscoring the terrifying speed with which the crisis has brought world economies to a near standstill. Meanwhile, world leaders and health officials are fervently warning that hard-won gains in the fight against the […]
A Baltimore police officer has come under fire after a video shows him intentionally coughing around Black residents of a public housing complex. As the unidentified sergeant walks outside the Perkins Homes in East Baltimore, the woman behind the camera can be heard saying to him: “Hey officer friendly with the cherry cheeks.” The officer […]
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City‘s death toll from the coronavirus has been disproportionately high in black and Hispanic communities, and the city is starting an outreach campaign for those residents, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Wednesday. “We’re seeing folks who have struggled before really being hit particularly hard,” de Blasio said at a […]
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Mary Louise Brown Morgan kept a garden full of rosebushes and just about every kind of fruit tree, from plums to satsuma oranges to kumquats. And when the lawn surrounding her south Louisiana home grew too high, the 78-year-old grandmother climbed on her lawnmower to cut it herself. “She had the […]
Two Black men say they were racially profiled by a white police officer while wearing surgical masks at a Walmart in Wood River, Illinois. A YouTube video that posted March 18 and has more than 30,000 views, shows the two males wearing masks and being followed by an officer as they exit the store, The Telegraph reports. Jermon […]
