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The Infusion of the Obamas’ Back into Political Life in April 2020

For three years Americans have been waiting to hear from past President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle Obama. Don’t get the wrong impression that in the last three years that Barack and Michelle have not been working. During the week of April 17th, 2020, President Obama gave two powerful commencement speeches, one to HBCU’s graduates. The other to High School graduates, carried on many different television stations, and media networks - on how he thought President Trump was handling the coronavirus pandemic.

Count the Ways Black Folks are Dying in the Age of Covid-19

There are very few statistics in America on how many Black people have died as a result of the coronavirus. There is a high chance everyone knows someone who has died. Everyone is walking around with a broken heart, and dying will become a part of living during the pandemic epidemic. Everything that is bad comes to Blacks first in disproportional numbers. Our healthcare outcomes are the worst in the country, which is no surprise. In addition to all of that, recently more police and white men are using Black people as target practice.

A Sea-Change is Needed: Deja Vu

It was only just over 100 years ago, on January 1, 1914, when the world's first scheduled passenger airline service took off. Since then, air travel has been taken for granted. In the interim, the world has experienced World War I, the Spanish flu, the Great Depression of the 1930s, World War II and the 2008 financial crisis. Advent COVID-19 and we find that the world's passenger airlines have been grounded and some will never return. 

Stay at Home: A New Norm?

Those of us who are occupied as housewives or househusbands, are retired, home-school children, have a virtual job enabled by digital technology or conduct business from home, tend to naturally manage our time in a home environment.

CARIB Comments

“Either we return to a globalization of concentration that is authoritarian, and to the same institutional design, or we build a different future” - Alicia Bárcena, executive secretary of the United Nations’ Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, ponders life in the region after COVID-19.

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We’re Here to Help

As Florida slowly reopens and people start getting back to work, I want you to know that Florida Power & Light Company understands just how disruptive the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic continues to be. As neighbors and fellow Floridians, we’re in this together and FPL remains here to help, especially if you are experiencing hardship.

National Black Coronavirus Task Force-Healthcare Education Economics

In this covid-19, coronavirus pandemic, in 2020, Black Americans have the highest morality rates and worse health outcomes of any racial group in the country. There is a major gap in healthcare, education and economics across the country and it becomes imperative for Black Americans – “To Put the Black Community First.”

Quotable Caribbean

"I assure you that we know what to do to bring back our economy - back to life. What we do not know is how to bring people back to life. We will therefore protect people's lives, then their livelihoods. " - Nana Akufo-Addo, President of Ghana

President Nana Akufo-Addo  UN Photo/Paulo Filgueiras

Quotable Caribbean

"The thing we have learned throughout this pandemic is that the best defense against the spread of this virus in our community is our residents having access to accurate and reliable information about the virus and how to protect themselves and their loved ones." - Albert Bryan Jr., Governor, U.S. Virgin Islands

U.S. Virgin Islands Governor Albert Bryan Jr.

Newspapers are Essential to Our American Dream

One of the reporters in our Sheldon office received an e-mail a week ago stating his child was no longer qualified to be taken care of by the local day-care facility. The e-mail came on Friday and the change went into effect on Monday. Never mind that the reporter’s spouse works at the local hospital and 4-month-old has been in the care of the facility since January.

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