Racism is a health problem “that takes a toll on people of color and contributes to the development of other chronic diseases,” according to doctors studying health inequities. Structural racism causes emotional and mental harm, said Dr. Aletha Maybank during a panel discussion Thursday sponsored by the American Medical Association. Maybank is the association’s chief
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Click here for updates on this story ENOLA, PA (WPMT) — Cars line up two at a time, almost 120 of them, stretched back around the side of East Pennsboro Middle School towards the front entrance. At the front of the line is Leanne Kalb, an employee in the East Pennsboro School District, and the
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Filmmakers and actors including Jordan Peele and Olivia Wilde are standing by John Boyega after he delivered a rousing speech at a Black Lives Matter protest on Wednesday. The “Star Wars” actor rallied crowds at the large demonstration in London’s Hyde Park following the death of George Floyd, telling activists that “now is the time”
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AUSTIN, Texas — Reported coronavirus infections and hospitalizations continued to surge Thursday in Texas as Gov. Greg Abbott continues his phased reopening of the state’s economic activity. The Department of State Health Services said 1,649 more cases of Covid-19 were reported to the state Thursday. That brought the total number of reported cases to a
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Two Atlanta Police Department officers were fired Sunday after video showed them using “excessive force” against two college students during Saturday night’s protests, Atlanta’s mayor announced. Officers were filmed in downtown Atlanta breaking the windows of the vehicle the two people were in, yanking a woman out of the car and tasing the man. Atlanta
Continue Reading Six Atlanta Police officers are being charged with using excessive force during an arrest of two college students at a protest on Saturday night, Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard announced Tuesday. The officers were filmed in downtown Atlanta breaking windows of a vehicle, yanking a woman out of the car and tasing a man.
Continue Reading Taniyah Pilgrim says she feared she might not survive when police used a Taser on her friend Messiah Young and pulled Pilgrim from a vehicle the pair were riding in during street protests in Atlanta on Saturday. “I thought I might be killed,” she told Alisyn Camerota on CNN’s “New Day” on Wednesday. “Nothing really
Continue Reading Six Atlanta police officers were booked, five on felony charges, Wednesday after allegations of using excessive force during a protest Saturday, according to the sheriff’s office. All six have been released on signature bonds, according to the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office. In a video recording of the incident, the officers are seen breaking windows of
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El PASO, Texas — A Coronado High School teacher protesting George Floyd’s death in downtown El Paso earlier this week was dragged away from the demonstration and handcuffed by officers. Diego Carlos was arrested for what even El Paso police admit is an uncommon charge, blocking a pedestrian roadway. Carlos, who teaches government and history,
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It will be very hot for your Friday. Temps will likely hit between 103-110 across the El Paso area including southern New Mexico. There will also be a slight chance for an isolated rain shower/thunderstorm later afternoon and night. This is El Paso’s 5th triple of the year so far – last year we had
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EL PASO, Texas — The El Paso Department of Public Health said Thursday afternoon that much of a spike involving nearly 200 additional coronavirus cases it had reported earlier in the day was tied to a local correctional facility. Although the city health department refused to specifically identify the detention facility, it is the Rogelio
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Two influential medical journals retracted separate coronavirus studies Thursday over concerns about the data used in both studies — data that came from the same international registry. The authors of the studies, one published in The Lancet and another in The New England Journal of Medicine, requested the studies be retracted because independent auditors weren’t
Continue Reading The director of the National Institutes of Health said Thursday he’s concerned that vaccine “skepticism” could hinder the effort to immunize the country against Covid-19. “I’m a bit concerned to see there’s a fair amount of skepticism in the American public about whether or not they would take such a vaccine,” Dr. Francis Collins told
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A 35-year-old black man in federal prison in New York City died after he became “disruptive” and guards used pepper spray, the Justice Department said. Jamel Floyd, who had been at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn since October 2019, was barricaded inside his cell and was “breaking the cell door window with a metal
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Europe is throwing money at the region’s deepest downturn since the Great Depression. It still may not be enough to spur a strong recovery in the second half of the year. The European Central Bank on Thursday said it would expand its massive bond-buying program to combat the shock from the coronavirus pandemic. The central
Continue Reading One day after Minneapolis Public Schools said it was ending its relationship with the Minneapolis Police Department following George Floyd’s death, the city’s parks department joined them. The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board voted Wednesday night to end its relationship with the Minneapolis Police Department, according to a recording of the meeting. All nine of
Continue Reading The Rev. Al Sharpton denounced racism and called for accountability in the criminal justice system as he delivered an eulogy Thursday for George Floyd. “The reason we could never be who we wanted to be and dreamed of being is you kept your knee on our neck,” said Sharpton, the founder of the National Action
Continue Reading Kanye West has made a $2 million donation to support the families of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor, a representative for West told CNN. The donation includes funding for legal fees for Arbery and Taylor’s families, along with black-owned businesses in crisis in his native Chicago and other cities. West’s representative said he
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story PITTSBURGH, Pa. (KDKA) — Khamil Scantling is out to nurture Pittsburgh’s black residents through economics. “I came here in 2005 as a freshman at the University of Pittsburgh,” Scantling says. “I came from a predominantly black neighborhood, a thriving black neighborhood in East Orange, New Jersey.” She says
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story EL DORADO COUNTY, Calif. (KOVR) — A young man put himself in harm’s way save two strangers struggling in the fast-moving waters of the Cosumnes River, but his heroics cost him his own life. Evan Ishima’s aunt says she misses his laughter and his smile. “They went hiking.
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story TAMPA, Fla. (WFOR) — Hello all you cats and kittens. There’s been a major new development in the mysterious disappearance of Florida millionaire and animal sanctuary owner Don Lewis, who was married to Carole Baskin of the Netflix docu-series “Tiger King.” The Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister said
Continue Reading Carole Baskin, whose longstanding feud with Joe Exotic was chronicled in the hit Netflix docuseries “Tiger King,” has been awarded the zoo once owned by her nemesis. A judge ruled in favor of Baskin’s Big Cat Rescue Corporation Monday in a lawsuit against the Greater Wynnewood Development Group, LLC. The latter company once was owned
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story DALLAS (KTVT) — Brandon Saenz was in the crowd protesting police brutality Saturday afternoon when he says he became a victim of it. “All I heard was a boom. I got hit,” Saenz said. “I put my hands up, put my hand on my eye, and then I
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story FALL RIVER, Mass. (WBZ) — A Fall River man is facing charges that include a civil rights violation for allegedly assaulting an 82-year-old supporter of President Donald Trump. The victim told police he was holding a pro-Trump sign Tuesday when he was violently attacked. Fall River police said
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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Another 12 victims of the coronavirus have died in the city Juárez, Chihuahua state health officials said Thursday. That brought the death toll in Juárez from the pandemic to 306, which represents over 80% of the 378 fatalities tallied to date for all of the state. Over half of all the
Continue Reading Benjamin Ryan Teeter was at his home in Hampstead, N.C., when the call to action came. It was an alert from the heart of the raging protests in Minneapolis, posted on an online forum by a fellow member of the Boogaloo movement, a loosely knit group of heavily armed, anti-government extremists. The “alert” was from
Continue Reading YouTuber Jake Paul has been charged with criminal trespass and unlawful assembly after video showed him at a Scottsdale, Arizona, mall as it was being looted, police said. Paul, 23, was present during the looting and property destruction that occurred at the city’s Fashion Square mall on Saturday, the Scottsdale Police Department said in a
Continue Reading What’s the point of a party if you can’t invite your friends? President Donald Trump is trying to turn the off again, on again, off again G7 summit this year into a G11 — at least. Maybe he’s looking for moral support. Global gatherings in the Trump era have been contentious affairs, and as often
Continue Reading Omar Wasow is a researcher who works in a world of charts and data. But his analytical reserve cracked after watching a video of George Floyd dying while being arrested by police. “I cried,” says Wasow, an assistant professor of politics at Princeton University. “I’m not without deep empathy for people’s anger. I feel that
Continue Reading Covid-19 is not mutating, health experts say, but that doesn’t mean it’s not dangerous. So far, evidence does not show that the coronavirus is changing to become more severe or more transmittable, but complacency by people and local governments could increase its spread, World Health Organization infectious disease epidemiologist Maria Van Kerkhove said Wednesday at
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