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Apr- 2020 -15 April#NNPA BlackPress
COMMENTARY: Dying to Work — Amazon, Other Frontline Workers Bear Brunt Of COVID-19
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Nationally, workers have voiced… complaints about a lack of protective equipment such as masks, inefficient sanitizing of…
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13 April#NNPA BlackPress
Black Businesses Matter, But Will They Get Fair Share Of COVID-19 Aid Money?
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “African Americans never really recovered from the housing crash and economic meltdown and that reality is going…
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5 April#NNPA BlackPress
COMMENTARY: COVID-19, the View Across Black America
NNPA NEWSWRE — While Washington, D.C.’s Metrorail has been largely emptied of its professional class of passengers, reductions in the…
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2 April#NNPA BlackPress
IN MEMORIAM: African Americans Who Have Died of COVID-19
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Michigan has been hit particularly hard by the COVID-19 virus. A Flint, Mich. Bishop and pastor in…
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Mar- 2020 -31 March#NNPA BlackPress
COVID-19: Black Churches Employ Innovation to Worship During a Pandemic
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Many Black churches are using conference calls, Facebook Live, Instagram, YouTube and other video conferencing technologies to…
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24 March#NNPA BlackPress
OP-ED: New York City is Moving on Up
NNPA NEWSWIRE — In December 2020, Mayor DeBlasio and the New York City Council announced more than 150 awardees of…
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6 March#NNPA BlackPress
There’s a Reason It’s Called ‘Super’ Tuesday
NNPA NEWSWIRE — After South Carolina’s primary victory breathed new life into his then-faltering campaign, Super Tuesday left the former…
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5 March#NNPA BlackPress
COMMENTARY: The Homelessness Crisis – We Are Better Than This
NNPA NEWSWIRE — There are half a million people, mostly men, mostly white, but way too many African Americans. African…
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4 March#NNPA BlackPress
CDC Removes Data on Number of People Tested for Coronavirus from Website as Infection Numbers Spike
NNPA NEWSWIRE — There have been more than 89,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19 around the world and over 3,000 deaths.…
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Feb- 2020 -27 February#NNPA BlackPress
Bloomberg’s Greenwood Initiative Aims to Create One Million New Black Homeowners
NNPA NEWSWIRE — According to Steve Benjamin, mayor of Columbia, South Carolina, and a spokesman for the Bloomberg Campaign, “Mike…
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