Tag: coronavirus pandemic
Senate Confirms Marcia Fudge as HUD Secretary
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent
The U.S. Senate voted on Wednesday to confirm Rep. Marcia Fudge as Secretary of the Department of...
New Administration’s Biggest Challenge: Biden Launches Head-On Attack Against COVID-19
The underlining challenge of the pandemic is health care. A challenge which only heightens when one considers that Trump spent the last four years weakening and attempting to completely dismantle the Affordable Care Act, which protects health care for tens of millions of Americans.
Black Americans Are Being Vaccinated at Far Lower Rates
The rollout of the medicine from Pfizer and Moderna featured heavy promotion. High-profile African Americans like former President Barack Obama, National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) Coronavirus Task Force Member Dr. Ebony Hilton, and the Rev. Jesse Jackson received their shots publicly.
An Open Fund for Projects Debunking Vaccine Misinformation
By: Alexios Mantzarlis, News and Information Credibility Lead, Google
The uncertainty and developing nature of the coronavirus pandemic continues to generate related misinformation. Fact-checkers have...
Georgia Senate Races Will Decide the Fate of Biden’s Presidency
By Lauren Victoria Burke, NNPA Newswire Contributor
On January 5, a set of runoff elections between Republican Senator incumbents Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue and...
