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In Philadelphia, a mass vaccination clinic opened with fanfare, then closed amid rifts of trust Frances Stead Sellers © Rachel Wisniewski/For the Washington Post People wait in an observation area after receiving a coronavirus vaccine at the mass-vaccination site set up by Philly Fighting COVID at the Pennsylvania Convention Center on Jan. 15. PHILADELPHIA —This city's first mass vaccination site looked like a model of 21st-century efficiency. Run by a neuroscience graduate student who spoke of creating a blueprint for high-volume clinics across the country, the innovat...

Mass vaccination clinic opened with fanfare, closed amid rifts of trust Frances Stead Sellers, The Washington Post Feb. 14, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail 6 1of6People wait in an observation area after receiving a coronavirus vaccine at the mass-vaccination site set up by Philly Fighting COVID at the Pennsylvania Convention Center on Jan. 15, 2021.Photo for The Washington Post by Rachel WisniewskiShow MoreShow Less 2of6Andrei Doroshin poses for a photo at his Philadelphia apartment in January 2021.Photo for The Washington Post by Rachel WisniewskiShow MoreShow Less 3of6 4of6Dominic Os...

Listen • 3:22 Pastor Timothy Sloan interviewed Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, about the COVID-19 vaccine. The Zoom call aired during a virtual Sunday sermon at the Luke Church in Humble. When the COVID-19 vaccine was authorized for use in December, Pastor Timothy Sloan was chatting with some of his congregants and the question of whether to get the vaccine came up. Sloan leads a Black megachurch in Humble called The Luke Church, and he knew that some of his 5,000 members would look to him for guidance. But the an...

Biden's vaccine push runs into distrust in the Black community Cleve R. Wootson Jr. and Frances Stead Sellers, The Washington Post Feb. 13, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail Michelle Chester administers a coronavirus vaccine to Dr. Yves Duroseau at Long Island Jewish Medical Center on Dec. 14.photo for The Washington Post by Sarah Blesener. Former Tuskegee, Ala., mayor Johnny Ford rolled up his right sleeve and smiled behind his mask as the first dose of coronavirus vaccine entered his arm - a televised display of faith he hoped would save Black families from suffering. Ford became mayor soon after ...

By Andrea Shorter– Happy Birthday, Black History Month! This year you are 95 years old. Born in 1926 as “Negro History Week” as a creation of historian and educator Carter G. Woodson, you eventually became a month-long celebration in the U.S. bicentennial year of 1976 to coincide with the February birthdays of former slave and abolitionist Frederick Douglass and President and emancipator Abraham Lincoln. Of note, February was also the birth month of civil rights icon Rosa Parks—on February 4, she would have been 108 years of age. Since your last visit in 2020, the story of Black Ameri...