This Monday, April 6, 2020, photo shows an arrangement of Hydroxychloroquine pills in Las Vegas. The Bureau of Prisons placed an order for $60,000 worth of hydroxychloroquine sulfate tablets in March, federal spending records show. A Bureau of Prisons spokesperson told Insider the drugs were intended to treat COVID-19 patients. The novel coronavirus has been…
Black Attorney Launches Online Reality Court TV Show Called “Hood Court” With a Live Jury
Nationwide — Attorney Tiffany M. Simmons has launched a new online reality court TV show called Hood Court that airs on Instagram Live @theplugslawyer Sunday nights at 11pm EST, Mondays 6pm EST, Tuesdays 9pm EST, and Fridays 6pm EST. Simmons is a real-life attorney based in Atlanta that has an undefeated record of more than 10 years…
Get Ready for a Two-Year Economic Slump
U.S. economic policy needs to be based on a realistic forecast of public health policy. Prepare for a long one. Photographer: Emily Elconin/Bloomberg/Bloomberg Narayana Kocherlakota is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. He is a professor of economics at the University of Rochester and was president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis from 2009 to 2015….
Air Pollution Disproportionately Affects Black Folks. A New Study Finds It Also Makes Coronavirus Much More Deadly
Photo: Mario Tama (Getty Images) 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.
Putting Black Empowerment to Emergency Use
Cooperation Jackson deploys its community production capacity to make masks during COVID-19. For a few years now, Kali Akuno has been on the receiving end of a fair amount of skepticism as to why Cooperation Jackson, the black empowerment and democracy collective he helped form in the middle of the “hood” in West Jackson, Mississippi,…
Anti-malarial Drug to be Tried on 3,000 COVID-19 Patients in Detroit Hospital: US Vice President
United States Vice President Mike Pence. (IANS) The anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine will be used in a trial covering 3,000 patients at a hospital in Detroit, Michigan, and the results will be tracked in a formal study, said US Vice President Mike Pence.
