Barbados Consulate and Associations treat Nurses at Downstate, NY

Barbados Consulate and Associations treat Nurses at Downstate, NY

Nurses at SUNY Downstate Medical Center University Hospital received a special tribute on Nurses Day.  In a joint effort of the Barbados Consulate at New York and three Barbadian associations, they were treated to lunch and received donations of masks and face shields.  The participating associations were St. George Secondary Old Scholars Association International, (SGSI); […]

Understanding Pre-Planning

Understanding Pre-Planning

Before you can become familiar with estate planning, it’s imperative to understand the concept of an estate. Consider everything you own, including your car, home, bank accounts, and even personal possessions. Your estate consists of everything that is legally yours.  When you’re gone, it is in your family’s best interest that you have delegated where […]

Undocumented Workers Demand Better, Safer Working Conditions During Pandemic

Undocumented Workers Demand Better, Safer Working Conditions During Pandemic

By Marisa Penaloza, NPR Undocumented workers are holding car caravans in several states Friday to demand dignity and safe working conditions. Latinx and Black immigrant workers are being forced to choose between a paycheck and their health. Norma Morales is a 46-year-old single mother of two girls in New Jersey. She cleans homes. “I started […]

A mysterious illness is striking children amid the coronavirus pandemic – but is it Kawasaki disease?

A mysterious illness is striking children amid the coronavirus pandemic – but is it Kawasaki disease?

By Mark Hicar, The Conversation Critically ill children have been ending up in intensive care units with shock-like symptoms in recent weeks, adding yet another mysterious layer to the coronavirus pandemic. New York health officials began issuing alerts on May 4, describing young patients, ages 2-15, with inflammation in multiple organ systems and features of Kawasaki disease, […]

NY Frontline Workers with TPS Discuss Their Roles in Combating Coronavirus While Under Threat from Trump Administration

NY Frontline Workers with TPS Discuss Their Roles in Combating Coronavirus While Under Threat from Trump Administration

Washington, D.C. – On April 30, Temporary Protected Status (TPS) holders working on the frontlines of the Coronavirus pandemic in New York joined immigration experts and advocates to discuss their critical role in protecting New York communities during this crisis even as the Trump administration is trying to deport them. In the midst of an […]

Everything We Know About the White House Coronavirus Outbreak

Everything We Know About the White House Coronavirus Outbreak

Reporters wear masks at the White House. Staffers will soon join them. Photo: Shawn Thew/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock By Adam K. Raymond, NY Mag “It is scary to go to work,” President Trump’s economic adviser Kevin Hassett admitted on CBS’s Face the Nation on Sunday. After weeks of avoiding an outbreak as staffers continued to come to work in the cramped […]

COVID-19 Took Black Lives First. It Didn’t Have To.

In Chicago, 70 of the city’s 100 first recorded victims of COVID-19 were black. Their lives were rich, and their deaths cannot be dismissed as inevitable. Immediate factors could — and should — have been addressed.

COVID-19 Took Black Lives First. It Didn’t Have To.

By Duaa Eldeib, Adriana Gallardo, Akilah Johnson, Annie Waldman, Nina Martin, Talia Buford and Tony Briscoe, Pro Publica Illinois  LARRY ARNOLD lived less than a mile from a hospital but, stepping out of his South Side apartment with a 103-degree fever, he told the Uber driver to take him to another 30 minutes away. Charles Miles’ […]