When Celeste Ng published the novel, there wasn’t a Black Mia. “I didn’t feel like I was the right person to try to bring a Black woman’s experience to the page,” Ng said.
“Nurses assistants and aides, we’re the closest ones,” said Verna White, who works in a nursing home, ground zero for COVID-19 deaths. “We’re the front line.”
Gig and full-time workers at Amazon, Instacart and Whole Foods promise to take action unless they receive the personal protection needed to carry out their “essential” work.
The new documentary, narrated by Common, tells the 20-year story of the nation’s first African American high school rowing team, who found a lifelong friendship on the water.
“We realized many writers and readers would be facing weeks and possibly months of social distancing and isolation. We wanted to use our art to help and connect with people around the world.”
“People aren’t doing it to get back at the archaeologists, [but] as a way of caring for other people,” said Choctaw Nation archaeologist Dorothy Lippert.
“As a global pandemic poses widespread health risks, guaranteeing…the nutritional needs of residents and [ensuring] their well-being through programs like SNAP, is essential,” says federal judge Beryl Howell.
Longtime resident Burlinda Radney: “How do you create a race-neutral policy in a predominantly Black neighborhood that has historically been adversely affected by race?”
