Month: April 2020

(April 6, 2020)Healthy volunteers in Philadelphia and Kansas City, Missouri, will begin to test an experimental coronavirus vaccine starting this week. The small Pennsylvania-based biotech Inovio Pharmaceuticals received regulatory clearance to begin testing. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, along with other nonprofits, have poured funding into Inovio’s vaccine project. The biotech expects to have…

By The Skanner News Published: 05 April 2020 A 13-year-old Virginia boy is using his parents’ 3D printer to create masks to donate, reports ABC television affiliate WJLA. Charles Randolph, like most kids, is trying his best to stay active while being confined to the house as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. Many young…

By Julianne Malveaux, NNPA Newswire Contributor The “big and bad” United States is seeing its world dominance recede. We are being vanquished both by a virus and by the ignorance of the “Commander in Chief.” We now know that there are not enough tests to detect the coronavirus, nor enough ventilators to treat all of…

California Black Media Staff A little over one year ago, members of the California Board of Equalization (BOE) unanimously selected Malia M. Cohen, former President of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, to chair the 141-year-old state agency. Cohen made history when she became the first African-American woman elected to the Board of Equalization in…

By Charlene Crowell For the foreseeable future, ‘normal’ life will be indefinitely suspended due to the global pandemic known as the coronavirus. Record-breaking employment layoffs in the month of March resulted in the Department of Labor reporting that 10.4 million consumers lost their jobs and filed for unemployment compensation. As medical experts continue to track…

By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia The University of Virginia Health System (UVA) has joined a national clinical trial testing a potential COVID-19 medication. “I enrolled the first patient on the clinical trial for Remdesivir,” Dr. Taison Bell, an infectious disease expert who specializes in critical care at the Charlottesville-based health system,…

By Julie Cart, CalMatters The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday recommended every American wear a face mask while in public to protect against contracting coronavirus.The agency announced that non-medical fabric masks –even scarves or bandannas –could help slow the spread of the infection. State health officials earlier in the week made the…

Riverside Press Enterprise A second nursing home facility in San Bernardino County is seeing a novel coronavirus outbreak. Last week, eight residents and seven employees at the Reche Canyon Rehabilitation & Health Care Center in Colton tested positive for COVID-19. One resident died, county officials said Monday, April 6. The outbreak follows one at Cedar…

Farmworkers may be considered “essential,” but the undocumented workers who pick the nation’s food are excluded from the CARES Act. Published on April 1, 2020 By David Bacon In fields and rural communities across the United States the nation’s 2.5 million agricultural laborers are waiting for the shoe to drop – for the first cases…

Find a furry friend: Foster a dog, cat or rabbit through San Bernardino County Animal Care and Control and save an orphaned animal. Connect virtually with loved ones: There is no better time to call, text, or video chat loved ones to check in. Use free online County resources for young children: If you are…

By Bill Fletcher, Jr., NNPA Newswire Contributor That’s right, he did it again. Just like a magician, while you are looking at his left hand, he pulls a trick with his right. In this case, while almost all of the news has been focused on Covid-19, the Trump administration dropped auto fuel efficiency standards. And…

By Sandra Emerson San Bernardino County reported three additional coronavirus deaths Monday, April 6, and the number of confirmed cases shot up by more than 150. There are now 530 cases of COVID-19 and 16 deaths, up from 373 cases and 13 deaths on Sunday, when cases rose only by one. The jump could be…

By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia Hip-hop and business mogul Russell Simmons has seen the devastation of the novel coronavirus and the effect it has had on his hometown of Hollis Queens, New York, and the rest of the world. Now the iconic Def Jam founder is bringing back one of his…

PE Leader Releases New CDs, Graphic Novel By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia It turns out the social media beef between Public Enemy icons Chuck D and Flavor Flav was a hoax. “April Fools” – sort of. Chuck and Flavor today released brand new music, and the relationship between the Rock and…

By Lauren Victoria Burke, NNPA Newswire Contributor Black churches in America have faced the challenges of wars, arson and racism written into the law. Following several slave revolts, including Nat Turner’s Rebellion in 1831, Virginia passed a law that required that a white person be present during service. The COVID-19 pandemic has presented an unprecedented…

By: Lou Yeboah “…I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn ye, turn ye, from your evil ways, for, why will ye die…?” [Ezekiel 33:11]. There is no reason for you to perish; there is no reason for you to die in…

By Mark Hedin Not only has the corona virus wrought havoc worldwide, it’s also become a new pretext for fraudsters trying to take advantage of people’s trust to steal their money. According to the United States Federal Trade Commission, COVID-19-related crimes are being reported by the thousands, have doubled in just the past week and…