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Today in Black America - August 19

POSTED: August 19, 2021, 9:00 am

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Associated Press

Tensions over aid grow in Haiti as quake’s deaths pass 2K

Jimmy Carter, trounced in 1980, gets fresh look from history


US health officials call for booster shots against COVID-19


USA Today

Fred still causing trouble across US: 35 missing after severe flooding in North Carolina, tornado warnings issued in New York

Haiti is reeling from a devastating earthquake, COVID-19 pandemic and political instability. Here's how to help.

Texas parent allegedly rips mask off teacher, school pleads for kindness - not 'mask wars'



The New York Times

Alabama has no more I.C.U. beds available, the state authorities said.

What to Know About Boosters if You Got the Johnson & Johnson Vaccine

Court Blocks a Vast Alaskan Drilling Project, Citing Climate Dangers


The Los Angeles Times


Column One: In South L.A., turning to Black midwives to give birth


UC pledges ‘transformational change’ to bring more equity, transparency to campus policing


Culver City Unified to require student COVID-19 vaccinations



The Baltimore Sun


Families, friends mourn two 15-year-olds killed a week apart in Baltimore


State prosecutors charge Baltimore’s ‘green team’ gang with 4 murders, multiple shootings and carjackings

Maryland hospital beds for kids are filling up with COVID and other virus cases. When school starts, doctors say it could get worse.


NJ.com


N.J. reports 10 COVID deaths, 1,258 cases. More than 850 hospitalized.


N.J. Supreme Court decision could boost legislator’s license plate frame bill

1st ever N.J. African Restaurant Week aims to spotlight cuisine


The Chicago Sun-Times

2 questioned in fatal shooting of Evergreen Park special ed teacher on Dan Ryan Expy.

Black homeownership’s stall during COVID-19 pandemic the ‘epidemic after the epidemic’

CTU says talks over additional COVID-19 precautions aren’t progressing with return to classrooms just days away


The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

As COVID-19 surge continues, Georgia hospitals running out of ICU beds


Gwinnett science teacher dies after contracting COVID-19, family says


Doctors call on Cobb school district to require masks



The Washington Post


What to know about booster shots in the U.S.

Biden tells Education Dept. to act against governors who ban mask mandates

The GOP is losing the PR battle on coronavirus mandates





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