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Los Angeles Officials Trying To Determine if Increase in COVID-19 Cases Is Due To Mutated Strain
The end of the year has brought with it a mutated strain of COVID-19 which reared its head in the United Kingdom recently and could potentially be the cause of a current surge in coronavirus cases in California. This weekend, a stunning 225,818 new cases of COVID-19 were reported across the U.S., with troubling spikes…
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Indiana University Health Responds to Black Doctor's Video of COVID Treatment: Nursing Team 'May Have Been Intimidated'
Dr. Susan Moore died days before Christmas at 52, after a protracted battle to get racially equitable treatment at Indiana University Health North Hospital (IU), according to videos she posted on social media about her experience. The head of that hospital system, Dennis Murphy, has since issued a statement in response to Dr. Moore’s video…
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President Trump Spends Holiday Golfing and Tweeting From Florida While COVID-19 Relief Bill Languishes in Limbo
After throwing a wrench into Congress’ plans to pass a desperately needed COVID-19 relief bill (insufficient though the $600 stimulus payments would be), President Trump has predictably spent the past few days doing absolutely nothing to fix the problem he created. Ahead of Christmas Eve, Trump had announced that he would not sign the $900…
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RV Explodes in Nashville in Apparent Intentional Christmas Day Attack, Police Say They May Have Found Human Remains on the Scene
This year is determined to bring the dramatic and unexpected until the very last minute. Case in point: a recreational vehicle parked in downtown Nashville erupted in what appeared to be an intentional explosion on Christmas morning, damaging buildings and prompting an investigation by authorities into what or who was behind the incident. According to…
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Kansas City Star Apologizes For Decades of Racially Biased Reporting
This year was marked by a movement towards racial reckoning in America, including a recognition of the historic injustices done towards Black people in this country via policing and also from a whole host of other institutions. Now another entity has stepped forward to acknowledge its role in perpetuating racial injustice. The Kansas City Star…
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Uh-Oh: The U.K. Has a New Strain of COVID-19 and Is in Lockdown Again
I can’t lie y’all—I’m sick and tired of the global nightmare that is the coronavirus, which is why I’m not one of the people who feels squeamish about taking a COVID-19 vaccine. But it sounds like coronavirus might not yet be sick of us. Scientists in the United Kingdom announced this weekend that a new…
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FDA Gives Authorization to Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine, Allowing for Doses to Be Distributed Across Country
The Federal Drug Administration has authorized a second COVID-19 vaccine, opening the door for more people to receive doses against the virus which brought the country to a halt this year and continues to rack up deaths. On Friday, the FDA announced that it has issued emergency use authorization for a vaccine developed by Moderna,…
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Imprisoned in Michigan for Nearly Four Decades, Walter Forbes Is Freed After Witness Recants Statement
Walter Forbes, a 63-year-old Black man in Michigan, is now free to spend the holidays with his family for the first time in over 37 years. Forbes was recently released from his decadeslong incarceration after the witness who helped imprison him recanted her original testimony this year and acknowledged it was a lie, due to…
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In First Decision of Its Kind, British Officials Rule That Air Pollution Was a Cause in the Death of 9-Year-Old Black Girl
A coroner’s court in the United Kingdom has ruled that air pollution was a cause of death in the case of Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah, an asthmatic 9-year-old girl who lived in southeast London and died in 2013. The landmark decision came on Wednesday and is the first time in the U.K. that a death certificate has…
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Police in Colombia Seen on Video Punching and Pulling Gun on Insecure’s Kendrick Sampson
Anti-blackness and violent policing may have some of their most visible expressions in the U.S. given the nation’s outsized visibility on the global stage, but by no means are these issues limited to America. The latest evidence of this is the brutal treatment that Insecure actor Kendrick Sampson appears to have received at the hand…
