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Vaccination rates in Black communities continue to lag, but uptick spurred by New York's cash incentive plan is giving health officials hope.

As the US may miss a vaccination goal set by President Joe Biden for July 4, officials are warning against complacency and states are ramping up measures to encourage reluctant residents to get the Covid-19 vaccine.

Fact Check: The United States is, was, and will always be a racist country Opinion: If racism is not responsible for the continued degradation and positionality of Black and Brown Americans, then what is? (Photo: NBC/ABC/CNN) If a Black Republican and Black Democrat walked into a bar, one wouldn’t usually expect them to agree on anything let alone that racism, in the United States especially, is a thing of the past. But last week, Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) and Vice President Kamala Harris reached across the aisle to agree that (white) American people are not racist.  In his reb...

Loading the player... Data from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) shows the Black population in this country still lags way behind their white counterparts when it comes to COVID-19 vaccinations — but a recent study reveals the reasons why may not be what was previously believed. So far, the number of Blacks Americans who are fully vaccinated stands at 1.3 million compared to 13.8 million white Americans.  Latiah Haley receives a dose of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine, the newest vaccine approved by the U.S. FDA for emergency use, at an event put on by the Thornton Fire Departm...