Coronavirus
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Trump Administration Looking to Reopen America Next Month Because They’re All Idiots
Dr. Ben Carson is a world-renowned surgeon who may go down in history as one of the best to ever wield a scalpel. He’s currently a member of the Trump administration, and his position? He’s the doctor of housing. He may have been the only hope in terms of flattening the curve of idiocy inside…
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Will Considering a Cough an Act of Terrorism Make Us Any Safer During a Pandemic?
If you spend any time on the internet, chances are you’ve come across a video of some idiot, responding to widespread fear and anxiety about the coronavirus, acting a damn fool: licking food or drinking from containers on grocery store shelves, coughing on essential workers, or loudly proclaiming they have the deadly and highly contagious…
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Liberty University’s Jerry Falwell Jr. Got Arrest Warrants Issued for Journalists for…Doing Journalism
In today’s “boy, if you don’t ssssssit yo’ ass down” news, Jerry Falwell Jr., the president of Liberty University, said on Wednesday that arrest warrants have been issued for journalists from The New York Times and ProPublica for committing the unspeakable crimes of…doing their jobs. According to Politico, photocopies of two arrest warrants posted on…
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Federal Reserve No Longer Accountable to the Public Under Recovery Law
The COVID-19 pandemic has unleashed a new level of economic strain upon the American public with very little precedent. The United States government has taken action by authorizing massive levels of federal spending. Unfortunately, these efforts are hampered with a lot of shadiness. Politico reports that the recovery law that provides $450 billion in bailout…
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Gospel Great BeBe Winans Reflects on His Battle With COVID-19: 'It Could've Been a Different Outcome for Me and My Family'
Gospel great BeBe Winans recently became one of the latest celebrities to contract COVID-19, and as he continues to recuperate from the deadly virus, he provided some insight into his diagnosis and recovery. “Sometimes, for some reason, we as a people when we look in and we look at television and various things that’s going…
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The Coronavirus Has Turned Me Into a Handyman. Temporarily, at Least
You know what sound you don’t want to hear when you’re holed up in your house and you’re trying to avoid close contact with friends (humanity, really—and don’t even mention a whole-ass stranger in your house to fix shit because that’s entirely off the table)? No idea? Cool, I’ll tell you. You don’t want to…
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Black People Have Been the Only Ones to Die From COVID-19 in St. Louis: Report
Recent reports have shown that coronavirus is infecting and killing black people at a disproportionately high rate. In St. Louis, city officials announced Wednesday that all of their COVID-19-related deaths have been black people. According to St. Louis Post-Dispatch, as of Wednesday, the city has over 480 confirmed cases of coronavirus infections and all 12…
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We Figured Out Why Coronavirus Is Killing Black People…As If You Didn't Already Know the Answer
Tamara is “essential.” Even though she has no medical training, no experience in law enforcement and has never driven an ambulance or extinguished a fire, Tamara is still technically an “emergency responder.” She risks her life every day to work as a case manager for the state of Alabama’s Department of Human Resources, even after…
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Air Pollution Disproportionately Affects Black Folks. A New Study Finds It Also Makes Coronavirus Much More Deadly
A new nationwide study has established a clear link between exposure to pollution and COVID-19 death rates, finding coronavirus patients who live in areas with high levels of air pollution are more likely to die from the virus than those who live in communities with cleaner air. Coming out of Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of…
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Per Usual, Black Women Tried to Tell Y'all: A Black Lady Sketch Show's Apocalypse Sketch Was Ahead of Its Time
Somewhere lying on a couch awaiting a kid to come hand her the remote that’s only a few inches away from her is a black woman twisting her face in an incredulous smirk because she knew this was coming—and she tried to tell y’all. That woman is portrayed by Robin Thede, creator of HBO’s A…