Hogan vows to increase Black vaccination rate, while D.C. leaves questions open about who gets priority
Julie Zauzmer, Erin Cox and Rachel Chason, The Washington Post
March 4, 2021
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Maryland Republican Gov. Larry Hogan, left, and Prince George s County Executive Angela Alsobrooks, a Democrat, visit a Giant pharmacy vaccination site in Capitol Heights in January 2021.Washington Post photo by Bill O Leary
District of Columbia officials offered little information Thursday about who will get vaccinated first under the city s new centralized preregistration system, while Maryland leaders discussed strengthening efforts to make sure Black residents have access to vaccines.
Beginning next week, District residents and workers seeking a vaccine will face a different process: They will fill out a form that asks about their age, health condition, address and other information, then wait. When it s their turn to schedule an appointment, the city will contact them.
From Blackpink to Top Execs: Women in Music Who Have Made an Impact in Global Entertainment
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The world has changed tremendously since
Variety‘s last International Women’s Impact Report a year ago: The COVID-19 pandemic shut down business around the globe and accelerated the shift toward streamed entertainment. The music industry has felt the impact of the pandemic more than many particularly live entertainment but it has rose to meet those challenges, and the music artists and executives featured in
Variety‘s larger International Women’s Impact Report (see the full report here) are among those leading the charge. We at
Stop AAPI Hate: Industry Heavyweights, Activists On Hollywood s Responsibility
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Flabbergasted on a Zoom call, “Nomadland” director Chloe Zhao accepted the Golden Globe for best director on Sunday night. Between gratitude and marveling over the historic moment, as the first person of Asian descent and second woman ever to win the prize, came a somber question.
Zhao was asked for her thoughts on increased violence against Asian American Pacific Islander communities in America, an abhorrent trend of hate crimes in the past months that only began to gain national media attention recently thanks to celebrity outcry and the social media reach of activists like Nobel prize nominee Amanda Nguyen.
10 SF Bay Area ZIP codes get vaccine priority under new equity plan
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A family walks along one of the streets on Treasure Island in San Francisco, California on Aug. 11, 2020.Douglas Zimmerman/SFGATE
California will begin distributing 40% of all vaccine doses to the most vulnerable neighborhoods in the state to inoculate people most at risk from the coronavirus in the latest revamp of the state s rules, the state announced Thursday.
Those given priority in the new system live in ZIP codes that fall into the lowest quartile of the state’s Healthy Places Index, which measures socioeconomic opportunity. The areas are considered most vulnerable based on metrics such as household income, education level and access to health care. While race and ethnicity are not explicit factors, the ZIP codes overlap heavily with neighborhoods inhabited by higher populations of Black, Latino and Asian and Pacific Islander residents.
By Cherranda Smith
During Women’s History Month, the
Black Information Network is elevating the life and work of Black women who’ve pioneered and persevered across industries and generations.
Though the list of women we need to celebrate is vast and long, there are a few hidden figures we want to uplift here.
These Black women worked diligently, some behind the scenes, others at the forefront, making striking impacts on culture, social movements, laws, and more. Some formed groups, relying on the collective power to make change, others stood up where they were to make a change. However the work was done, Black women did it and continue to do it, for themselves and for those to come.