Members of the ultranationalist surged Washington, D.C. last Jan. 6 to oppose the certification of the Electoral College vote for President Joe Biden.
The breach on the Capitol building by a mob of pro-Trump supporters shattered windows and vandalized the Capitol building. Keep Reading
Britian’s 1st Black TV news presenter says she’s not surprised to learn racism against Meghan Markle was a key factor the Duke & Duchess of Sussex choosing to leave the monarchy in England for private lives in Southern California! Barbara Blake-Hannah spoke via videochat from Jamaica, where she returned after anti-Black viewers convinced her then-employer Thames Television to yank her off the air! Keep Reading
Authorized and Recommended Vaccines
As Covid-19 vaccines are authorized and recommended for use in US by the Center for Disease Control two vaccines are available, Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech. A third vaccine made by Johnson & Johnson is in late-stage clinical trials.
There is still some confusion of what to expect after vaccination, as well as ingredients, safety, and effectiveness.
Vaccines in Phase 3 Clinical Trials
The CDC says that as of December 2020, large-scale (Phase 3) clinical trials are planned for three COVID-19 vaccines in the United States:
#COVID19 vaccines are safe and effective. Millions of people in the United States have received COVID-19 vaccines, and these vaccines have undergone the most intensive safety monitoring in U.S. history. More on COVID-19 vaccine safety: https://bit.ly/3pE2Go7.
Black churches are responding to the threat of the coronavirus pandemic by migrating to online services while feeding and serving its immediate community.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines calls for social distancing as black faith leaders find it necessary to discontinue in-person church services.
Most historically black churches are adapting to a virtual worship service. Keep Reading
COVID-19 is hitting black and brown communities particularly hard according to the Center for Disease Control data from 14 states. One-third of all Coronavirus cases are African American, while African Americans make up only 18% of the population of those states.
Those states include California, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Iowa, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Tennessee, and Utah.
CDC data indicates race and ethnicity categories have tangible effects on the lives of individuals impacted by COVID-19.
According to Dr. Stefan Flores, a New York City emergency room physician, Black and Brown communities where people come from low socioeconomic backgrounds or migrant communities are disproportionately affected. Keep Reading
A data driven initiative platform brought civic activists, law enforcement and social scientists together to learn how to make informed decisions to improve quality of life through a data driven initiative.
The USC Price Center for Social Innovation and Safe Communities Institute in conjunction with the Neighborhood Data for Social Change (NDSC) hosted the inaugural event to highlight its Criminal Justice Data Initiative and analyze public safety in Los Angeles.
The one-year pilot program is in collaboration with the Urban Institute’s National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership and the Microsoft Cities Team to initiating a community criminal justice reform through data. Its relies upon a different approach to analyze how crime data can be used to implement better police practices. Keep Reading
A South Los Angeles post office was renamed in honor of music icon Marvin Gaye.
Gaye’s relatives politicians and local residents gathered in June for a rededication ceremony.
Among those in the crowd were Rep. Karen Bass (D-Calif.), Los Angeles County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas, LA City Council President Herb Wesson and City Councilman Marqueece Harris-Dawson. Keep Reading
The tragic mass shootings over the weekend in El Paso and Dayton, Ohio, in which 31 people were killed and scores wounded, have left the nation reeling. How did we get to this point? We’ve asked that question so many times but with no result. More important now is determining how we get out of this.
There have been 253 mass shootings so far in 2019, according to the Gun Violence Archive. Whenever these attacks occur, we hear the expected platitudes, but these thoughts and prayers are uttered so often they start to lose meaning. Keep Reading
