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Volume 54 - No.21: November 26th-December 3rd, 2020
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New COVID Vaccine Requires ‘Trust’ of BLACK Community By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia
News that Pfizer and BioNTech’s announcement that their coronavirus vaccine was more than 90 percent effective in preventing COVID-19 among those without previous infection arrives as the United States continues to realize recordbreaking new cases. For the first time on Thursday, November 12,
Santas By Brian Wheeler BBC News, Washington DC (Originally Published December 9, 2016) America’s biggest shopping mall grabbed headlines this week by hiring its first African-American Father Christmas. But black Santas have been around for a lot longer than Mr. Larry Jefferson as you might think - and even Black Santa Clause played a role in the civil rights struggles of the 1960s. He has been playing Santa Claus for “Everything that Santa represents has the past five years and although the mall to be you. That’s my honest belief. You where he works, in a suburb of Washingcan’t have some grumpy old guy who ton DC, has hosted a black Santa for as doesn’t love kids sitting there represent- long as anyone can remember, he says ing somebody who is joyful, somebody they are still “few and far between” in who is loving.” the rest of America. Kenny Green is a man who takes his African-American families come from job seriously. as far afield as Delaware, 80 miles away,
the country surpassed 150,000 new coronavirus cases in a single day. The total number of cases soared past 10.5 million, according to Johns Hopkins University. Both California and Texas have recorded more than 1 million total cases, while states like Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, and New Jersey have seen significant rises in COVID infections. The most recent available statistics show that the District of Columbia has more than 18,500 to
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Santa’s Origin Story
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California families sue state over distance learning inequities
•The Santa Claus legend can be traced back to a fourth century monk named St Nicholas who lived in what is today Turkey •The modern image of Santa Claus was created in the late 1800s by American artist Thomas Nast in a series of cartoons for Harper’s Weekly magazine •It became a staple of Christmas cards and advertising images in the early 20th Century, most notably a 1930s Coca-Cola commercial, which some believe popularised his distinctive red-and-white garb
By KATY MURPHY
sight. Meanwhile, they
California to court Monday, accusing the state of failing to ensure “basic educational equality” during a prolonged period of remote learning brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic. The plaintiffs say the state isn’t providing the equipment, training and support that low-income families desperately need and that it has left it up to districts and teachers to navigate the challenges on their own, providing scant guidance or over-
school supplies or make do without a computer for each child or reliable internet access. “Because of the State’s inadequate response, parents and grandparents have had to become tutors, counselors, childminders, and computer technicians, and they have had to find a way to pay for what are now basic school supplies — laptop/tablets, paper, printing, and internet access,” the lawsuit says, adding that the state has “offered fam-
SACRAMENTO, Ca- say, families have been lif. - Seven families took forced to pay for basic
highest one-day coronavirus death toll the country has reported since early May, Johns Hopkins University data shows. The country also hit a new daily hospitalization record, with 89,954 people currently hospitalized for Covid-19, according to the Covid Tracking Project. This is the 16th straight day that figure set a record for the pandemic. “I worry that the Thanks-
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giving Day surge will then just add into what will become the Christmas surge, which will then make this one seem as if it wasn’t so bad,” said Michael Osterholm, the director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published an ensemble forecast Wednesday that
Biden-Harris Get Access To President’s Daily Brief By DEB RIECHMANN and ZEKE MILLER WILMINGTON, Del. Joe Biden has had his first look as president-elect at the President’s Daily Brief, a top secret summary of U.S. intelligence and world events — a document former first lady Michelle Obama has called “The Death, Destruction, and
Horrible Things Book.” Biden has already had eyes on different iterations of the so-called PDB, which is tailored to the way each president likes to absorb information. More than a decade ago, Biden read President George W. Bush’s PDB during Biden’s transition into the vice
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President Elect Joseph Biden and VicePresident Elect Kamala Harris has been denied access to classified presidential briefings by the Trump administration.
By Amir Vera, Jason Hanna and Christina Maxouris, CNN The United States is living in the most dangerous public health crisis since the 1918 influenza pandemic, and health experts say it doesn’t look like the coronavirus will be slowing down anytime soon with the arrival of the holiday season. The US reported 2,046 deaths Wednesday -- the
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Thanksgiving COVID Surge Could Turn Into The Christmas Surge
presidency. After that, he read President Barack Obama’s PDB for eight years. Beginning Monday, after a four-year break, he’s reading President Donald Trump’s PDB. “The briefers almost certainly will be asking Biden what he prefers in terms of format and style,” said David Priess, author of “The President’s
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