There’s a mad dash to influence Black people’s thinking on COVID-19 and the vaccine. And it’s not Black people behind it.
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The COVID Crisis
It is time to start firing racists. Start with Dr. Susan Moore’s doctor.
written by Erika Nicole Kendall
If medicine is solely going to be about the money, then it’s time people start losing their money when they commit injustices against Black people.
Hell naw, Black people don’t trust the vaccine. But here’s how you fix that.
written by Erika Nicole Kendall
Medical science has an abysmal track record with Black America. There simply isn’t any other way to put it. There’s the time when scientists deliberately watched Black men with syphilis …
Your state’s approach to ‘re-opening’ tells you whether they believe Black Lives Matter.
written by Erika Nicole Kendall
All across the country, we’re watching communities go through the same thing we went through here in New York, people testing positive for coronavirus disease (or COVID-19), and then the …
The Empathy Gap: Coronavirus is hitting Black communities harder than anyone else. Of course it is.
written by Erika Nicole Kendall
It’s too easy to blame Black people’s rates of heart disease and diabetes for the high rate of COVID-19 related mortality. It’s so, so much deeper than that.
My experience with the COVID-19 disease, and why we need to take it as seriously as possible.