Dive Brief: Erosion in the volume of hospital inpatient admissions during the initial months of the COVID-19 pandemic was remarkably uniform, a study published Thursday in Health Affairs concluded. The volumes began to bounce back significantly in June. However, there were some differences among demographic groups. Admissions among patients living in majority Black and Latino… Read More »
Loading the player… Video footage has surfaced of a woman in New York City having an angry tirade in a Verizon store, which ended with her using a racial slur against one of the employees. The New York Daily News reports that she had been instructed to wear a mask in the store. which she… Read More »
Aug. 29, 2020 — Chadwick Boseman, the star of the 2018 Marvel Studios megahit Black Panther, died of colon cancer Friday. He was 43. Boseman, who was diagnosed 4 years ago, had kept his condition a secret. He filmed his recent movies ”during and between countless surgeries and chemotherapy,” according to a statement issued on his Twitter… Read More »
Mark Johnson, 30, of Glenside in the Mt Airy/Wadsworth section of Northwest Philadelphia, PA on June 1, 2020. (Photo by Bastiaan Slabbers/NurPhoto via Getty Images) COVID-19 continues to devastate Black communities despite myths that Blacks either cannot be affected or that they are not taking this pandemic seriously. As more data becomes widely available, results… Read More »
The Lives of Men, a Black men’s support group, is making sure that they come together in one room to talk in an open and honest conversation in the aftermath of Kobe Bryant‘s tragic death. That may sound strange in a society that promotes male masculinity on the pillars of showing little to no emotion.… Read More »