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Can slavery reparations happen under the Biden administration? EXCLUSIVE: In efforts to correct the wrong of slavery in the US, support for H.R. 40 is mounting as a markup and House vote are expected in March or this spring U.S. President Joe Biden speaks about his racial equity agenda in the State Dining Room of the White House on January 26, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Doug Mills-Pool/Getty Images) 401 years ago, the first enslaved Africans came to this nation as free labor, fattening the pockets of plantation owners. Meanwhile, the negative and generational effects of th...

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In Tuskegee, Painful History Shadows Efforts To Vaccinate African Americans A lingering mistrust of the medical system among many Black people is rooted in the infamous 20th century U.S. study of syphilis that left Black men in Tuskegee, Ala., to suffer from the disease. February 21, 2021, 6:54 AM A participant in the Tuskegee Study in the 1930s. A lingering mistrust of the medical system among many Black people is rooted in the infamous study. A lingering mistrust of the medical system makes some Black Americans more hesitant to sign up for COVID-19 vaccines. It has played out in early data...

To vaccinate or not: Americans split on whether to get Covid-19 vaccine SOUTHERN COLORADO (KRDO) -- According to the Journal of the American Medical Association, 56% of Americans want to get the Covid-19 vaccine. That's a significant drop since the first survey was done in the Spring of 2020. The findings were published in a December 2020 article after questioning 9,000 adults online. Of those surveyed in April 2020, 74% said they were likely to get the COVID-19 vaccine when it was available to the public. However, by late November to early December 2020, that number had dropped to 56%. In ho...

Don't wait for the underserved to sign up for a COVID-19 vaccine. Go to them Ricardo Correa and Dionne Mills, opinion contributors © Cheryl Evans Syringes with COVID-19 vaccine at Dignity Health's county POD site at Chandler-Gilbert Community College ready to be administer on Feb. 4, 2021. As physicians, we have seen how COVID-19 affects our patients. As physicians of color, we experience the devastation of COVID-19 on a personal level, having lost friends, colleagues and loved ones, and seeing this disease destroy our communities financially and emotionally. © Thomas Haw...