NNPA Coronavirus Task Force

Morehouse/Meharry medical schools to increase COVID-19 vaccine rates through targeted, culturally competent outreach efforts in Georgia and Tennessee, funded by nearly $9.7 Million Grant from U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. (Photo: iStockphoto / NNPA)

PRESS ROOM: Georgia, Tennessee Small Businesses Eligible for up to $2,000 To Increase Vaccine Confidence Among Their Employees and Community

NNPA NEWSWIRE — Minority Owned Businesses (MBEs) participating the HealthWorks program must have at least two employees and assign one person from their organization to serve...

#NNPA BlackPress2 years ago

Vice President Harris and Husband Test Positive for Covid

NNPA NEWSWIRE — “She has exhibited no symptoms, will isolate and continue to work from the Vice President’s residence. She has not been in close contact...

A masked worker stands behind a sign warning of a quarantine. iStock photo.

#NNPA BlackPress3 years ago

California Adds Twist to New CDC Advice on Quarantines

OAKLAND POST — California’s updated guidance differs from the CDC’s in one important way. The state is recommending that people who quarantine after a positive diagnosis...

“The reason we see alarming rates of hospitalizations and deaths in the U.S. is because many people are still unvaccinated,” former CDC Director Dr. Tom Frieden noted.

#NNPA BlackPress3 years ago

Vaccine Uptick found in African Americans, But Access and Misinformation Still Confounds Community

NNPA NEWSWIRE — Dr. Hilton repeatedly has asked the CDC about changing protocols when it comes to booster shots. “How are we not repeating this same...

Black and Hispanic residents in New Jersey have been the most vulnerable to COVID-19, serving as critical frontline and essential workers. (Photo: iStockphoto / NNPA)

#NNPA BlackPress3 years ago

OP-ED: Keeping Our Access to Healthcare

NNPA NEWSWIRE — The healthcare system has long been inequitable – low-income individuals, people of color, and those without means, time, or money to travel to...

Last month, Black educators from around the state met at the Reef Restaurant in Long Beach. One of their items on their agenda was getting to the bottom of why some Black Californians remain reluctant to get the COVID-19 vaccine.

#NNPA BlackPress3 years ago

Black Educators Take on Hesitancy as Gov. Newsom Issues COVID Vaccination Mandate

THE SACRAMENTO OBSERVER — California’s school vaccination mandate will take effect for students enrolled in grades 7 through 12 one semester after the U.S. Food and...

Virginia Ali is owner of Ben’s Chili Bowl, an iconic restaurant she and her husband, Ben Ali, opened in 1958 in Washington D.C., said that COVID-19 was the hardest obstacle that her business has ever faced, because this was the first time that her business had to close its doors for an extended amount of time. It normally stayed open from 7 a.m. to 2 a.m. and until 4 a.m. on the weekends, she said.

#NNPA BlackPress3 years ago

Black Businesses Continue to Face Down the Pandemic

HOWARD UNIVERSITY NEWS SERVICE — H&R Block conducted a study that revealed more than half of Black-owned businesses experienced at least 50% decrease in revenue during...

Families across race and ethnicity are feeling the pain, but African Americans are generally in an even weaker position to absorb this economic adversity. (Photo: iStockphoto / NNPA)

#NNPA BlackPress3 years ago

Gates Foundation’s Annual Goalkeepers Report Finds Stark Disparities in COVID-19 Impacts

NNPA NEWSWIRE — “Organizations are committed to helping. There is a genuine commitment, even at the United Nations when we take stock of what we are...

On Tuesday, September 14, Dr. Hilton will appear on the NNPA’s live morning breaking news program, “Let It Be Known.”

#NNPA BlackPress3 years ago

NNPA Honors Dr. Ebony Hilton with National Leadership Award

NNPA NEWSWIRE — As a practicing physician at the University of Virginia - Charlottesville, Dr. Hilton has continued advocating for underserved and marginalized populations. Her efforts...

Just under 52 percent of the U.S. population has full vaccination, while 61 percent received at least one dose.

#NNPA BlackPress3 years ago

New Coronavirus Variant a ‘Concern’ for Health Officials

NNPA NEWSWIRE — Nearly 219 million people globally had contracted the novel coronavirus since March 2020, when officials officially declared a pandemic. Over 4.5 million have...

In May 2021, almost 52,000 New Yorkers – including 15,930 children – were sleeping in shelters, the highest rate of homelessness the city has experienced since the Great Depression. (Photo: iStockphoto / NNPA)

#NNPA BlackPress3 years ago

Op-Ed: Fixing New York City’s Homelessness Crisis Is an American Priority

NNPA NEWSWIRE — In particular, African Americans, Latinx Americans and other people of color are disproportionately, devastatingly impacted by COVID-19 and are also disproportionately entrapped with...

Rev. Jesse Jackson told the Black Press that he remains vigilant in fighting for freedom, justice, and equality.

#NNPA BlackPress3 years ago

EXCLUSIVE: Rev. Jesse Jackson Speaks About His and Wife’s Covid Diagnosis

NNPA NEWSWIRE — In an exclusive telephone conversation from his hospital bed on Sunday, August 22, the renowned civil rights leader expressed his ongoing support for...

Limit exposure when you can, put up shields in appropriate areas if you must deal with the public. Recovery is not going to be quick even if we get a large part of the population immunized. (Photo: iStockphoto / NNPA)

#NNPA BlackPress3 years ago

With the Lowest Death Rate, D.C. Ranks Among Safest States During COVID

NNPA NEWSWIRE — As of Thursday, August 19, approximately 51 percent of the American population is vaccinated. The authors spell out that some states are safer...

More African Americans are needed to participate in vaccine trials “because we need information as to how they react to the vaccines, as well as to give others in the community confidence,” Dr. Fouad said. | Photo: Mona Fouad, M.D., director of the Minority Health and Health Disparities Research Center (MHRC) at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). (FILE)

#NNPA BlackPress3 years ago

Dr. Mona Fouad’s outreach to low-income areas stresses COVID-19 vaccines

THE BIRMINGHAM TIMES - “One of the first things we did when the COVID-19 [pandemic] started, was to do mobile testing,” she said. “We went to...

Patients receiving their vaccination shot at Parker High school on Monday March 29,2021. Photo by Marvin Gentry for The Birmingham Times.

#NNPA BlackPress3 years ago

How Black Residents in Birmingham Overcame Fear to Take COVID-19 vaccines

THE BIRMINGHAM TIMES — “Usually, the vaccines we take, like the flu vaccine, are only about 60 to 70 percent effective. But the [COVID-19] vaccines from...

Food boxes were regularly distributed at sites across North Texas during the final months of President Trump’s administration. However, the program’s contracts with agencies who deliver food boxes expires at the end of April. (Photo: iStockphoto / NNPA)

#NNPA BlackPress3 years ago

Continued food distribution in North Texas Urged

NNPA NEWSWIRE — The Howell Foundation has distributed more than 2400 USDA fresh food boxes – about 1 million pounds of food - to North Texas...

We will continue fighting to ensure that, in the short term, Black communities have access to all the tools necessary to recover from the economic and personal devastation wrought by this pandemic; and in the long term, address the impacts of historic disparate treatment against communities of color.

#NNPA BlackPress3 years ago

OP-ED: The American Rescue Plan — Changing the Course of the Pandemic for All Americans

NNPA NEWSWIRE — The American Rescue Plan also addresses inequities in access to pandemic resources by making significant investments into small, Black businesses by providing $50...

Florida’s unemployment rate for February 2021 decreased to 4.7 percent, below the national average of 6.2 percent.

#NNPA BlackPress3 years ago

Florida Department of Economic Opportunity Announces Ten Consecutive Months of Job Growth, Lowering Unemployment Rate to 4.7 Percent

ORLANDO ADVOCATE — “Under Governor DeSantis’ leadership, our state’s economy has bounced back tremendously from the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic,” said Dane Eagle, Executive Director of...

The President outlined a “ramped-up effort” to create more places for people to get vaccinated, enabling officials to reach those hardest hit and most challenging to reach.

#NNPA BlackPress3 years ago

Biden: States Should Open Vaccinations to All Adults by May 1

NNPA NEWSWIRE — More than 529,000 Americans have died since the pandemic began, and nearly 30 million have contracted the virus. “We all lost something,” the...

Overall, African Americans are hospitalized at three times the rate of white Americans. African Americans die at double the rate from COVID than all other groups according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (Photo: iStockphoto / NNPA)

#NNPA BlackPress3 years ago

CDC: Life Expectancy of Black Men Has Dropped by Three Years

NNPA NEWSWIRE — Non-Hispanic Black males now have the lowest life expectancy of any group. The new data shows that African Americans on average live six...

Meharry Medical College President and CEO Dr. James Hildreth.

#NNPA BlackPress3 years ago

President Biden Taps Meharry Medical College President for COVID Task Force

NNPA NEWSWIRE — “COVID-19 has killed hundreds of thousands of Americans, and if adequate steps are not taken, this number will continue to grow. As we...

COVID-19 does not discriminate. It does not care if you are a Democrat, a Republican, or an Independent. (Photo: iStockphoto / NNPA)

#NNPA BlackPress3 years ago

COMMENTARY: Did Publix Make Dispensing the Covid-19 Vaccine Political?

NNPA NEWSWIRE — Why did Publix neglect the counties with the most COVID-19 cases and deaths in the entire state? What executive made the decision on...

In his sermon, Bishop Barber said the nation cannot accept that 140 million Americans were poor or low-income even before the pandemic.

#NNPA BlackPress3 years ago

PRESS ROOM: Biden, Harris have experiences needed to heal country’s wounds, Bishop Barber says in inaugural prayer service

NNPA NEWSWIRE — Nationally, more than 140 million poor and low-income people live in the United States, or 43% of the country’s population, and that was...

As of Jan. 16, the U.S. had surpassed more than 23.3 million total cases and 388,700 deaths due to the pandemic, the Kaiser Family Foundation reported.

#NNPA BlackPress4 years ago

Black Americans Are Being Vaccinated at Far Lower Rates

NNPA NEWSWIRE — The rollout of the medicine from Pfizer and Moderna featured heavy promotion. High-profile African Americans like former President Barack Obama, National Newspaper Publishers...

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