Tag: Dr. Ebony Hilton
Senator Cory Booker (D-NY), Environmental Justice Advocate, Proud to Receive NNPA Leadership Award
Sen. Booker, who served two terms as Newark mayor before his election to the Senate, will receive the 2021 National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA)...
Delta Variant Now Makes up 83 Percent of all U.S. COVID Cases
The latest delta surge also has led to increases in hospitalizations and deaths, Dr. Walensky stated. She remarked that deaths have risen by about...
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.
‘We Took the Capitol’ Trump Supporters Storm The Chambers of Congress
Stacy M. Brown | NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent
Thousands of President Donald Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday as Vice President Mike...
Push is On to Increase African Americans’ Confidence in COVID Vaccine
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s foremost infectious disease physician, also championed the work of Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett, an African American scientist, whom Dr. Fauci said was at the forefront of the development of the vaccine. “So, the first thing you might want to say to my African American brothers and sisters is that the vaccine that you’re going to be taking was developed by an African American woman. And that is just a fact,” Dr. Fauci remarked.