black america after coronavirus
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The Real Coronavirus Hoax: Republicans Are Using COVID-19 to Make the Black Vote Disappear
There is a common tool used by every sophisticated thief, magician and con man. A bank robber might pull a fire alarm across town or call in a fake robbery as “smoke” for a heist, while flim-flam artists use a variety of misdirection gimmicks called “bells.” Some of the most elaborate magic tricks depend on…
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Kamala vs. the Coronavirus
Kamala Harris knows how to fight. When The Root solicited the California senator (for now…hint, hint) for our series on how the novel strain of the coronavirus could impact the not-so-novel strain of white supremacy that has infected this nation for centuries, she didn’t bother discussing how American ingenuity could defeat the deadly disease. Unlike…
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Coronavirus Is Exposing America's Separate but Unequal Healthcare System. But Will It Change It?
As the child of Jamaican immigrants, I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to trek across New York City to attend one of the most exclusive high schools in the country (Stuyvesant High School), and one of the country’s best historically black colleges (Hampton University). After serving as an Air Force physician, I intentionally…
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Can Coronavirus Cure White Supremacy?
Black people are crazy. Long before Donald Trump’s peer-reviewed research concluded that warm weather and Easter speeches could cure the deadly COVID-19, Dr. Samuel Adolphus Cartwright mesmerized America with his own pseudo-scientific discovery. On March 17, 1851, Cartwright delivered a paper before the most distinguished scientific minds of Louisiana (the same brilliant Southerners who believed…