NEW YORK – NYC Census 2020 (Mayor’s Office of the Census) has announced that it is embarking on an extensive and innovative digital organizing campaign via WhatsApp, WeChat, KakaoTalk, and Viber (“WhatsApp+”), to reach immigrant communities across New York City in 15 languages. This type of linguistic and culturally competent outreach and communication is particularly important […]
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); […]
The closed P.S. 33 in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York – New York NY/USA-April 11, 2020 (Shutterstock) By Tom Liam Lynch In their recent letter to families, the mayor and New York City Schools Chancellor committed to a “stronger” September than ever when schools re-open. I, like many parents, long for that day when […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Mayor Bill de Blasio speaks during visit at food pantry by The Campaign Against Hunger amid COVID-19 pandemic in Brooklyn: New York, NY – April 14, 2020 (Shutterstock) By Julia Marsh, NY Post City leaders slammed Mayor Bill de Blasio Wednesday for his willingness to sacrifice the jobs of city cops, doctors and teachers before cutting […]
The coronavirus has taken a steep toll on the often-invisible army of employees who keep New York hospitals running.
Rosalyn Washington’s husband, Gary, 56, died from Covid-19 the day before their wedding anniversary. (Credit: Sara Naomi Lewkowicz for The New York Times) By Nicole Hong, NY Times They did not treat patients, but Wayne Edwards, Derik Braswell and Priscilla Carrow held some of the most vital jobs at Elmhurst Hospital Center in Queens. As […]
By Lauren Victoria Burke, NNPA Newswire Contributor, The Baltimore Times With the coronavirus death toll passing 50,000 during the last week in April, black leaders in the U.S. have taken to warning their communities of the danger of opening the country back up too soon. The coronavirus has devastated the black community in Detroit and […]
By HeadCovers Coronavirus came like a global earthquake, and no one knows when the world will stop quaking. The seismic wave of this pandemic has shaken up our lives in too many ways to count. COVID-19, the most recent strain of coronavirus we’re contending with, has caused numerous illnesses, and unfortunately deaths, worldwide. We are […]