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The Black Health Fair will also host musical performances, games, raffles and activities such as yoga, groove fitness and line dancing.
The Black Health Collaborative—a group of mental health providers and other community groups that serve Black families—is hosting the fair to tailor COVID-19 education and outreach within a community that has fallen behind other groups in vaccination rates citywide.
In Long Beach, Black residents make up 13% of the population, yet Black adults account for just 8% of residents over 18 who are vaccinated, which has some experts worried as the more transmissible and “widespread” delta COVID-19 variant quickly spreads across the city.