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The history of the practice of medicine in America has led to a distrust between parts of the black community and doctors.

PHICHAK LIMPRASUTR "GO BACK TO Africa!” has been a barb spat at American Black folk since circa white people ceasing to own us. But in 2019, what had been a taunt weaponized by racists became an invitation for the whole Black diaspora, and foremost Americans, to come home, come home, and commemorate the most important year in our shared history:1619. To be specific, Ghana created its Year of Return campaign to mark the arrival of those first 20-odd captured Africans on the shores of Jamestown, Virginia. With the hope of returning to the motherland, I booked a ticket to Accra and a hotel. T...

Updated 12/23/2020 5:53 AM The U.S. Surgeon General said Illinois' COVID-19 metrics are "moving in the right direction" as new COVID-19 infections numbered 6,239 Tuesday and case averages dropped compared to November and December highs. "And we have the finish line in sight with these two vaccines" by Pfizer Inc. and Moderna Inc., Surgeon General Jerome M. Adams said during a visit to the state Tuesday.   A total of 234,450 doses of COVID-19 vaccines by the two pharmaceutical companies are arriving this week for health care workers in the suburbs and elsewhere in Illinois. Chicago is getting...

Nation Of Islam Leader Farrakhan Calls Coronavirus Vaccine “Toxic Waste,” His Claim Is Not Without Merit Article by WN.Com Correspondent Dallas Darling Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan advised his followers against the COVID-19 vaccine in a speech on Saturday, calling the breakthrough vaccine a “toxic waste” that would harm the Black community. Farrakhan, now age 87, sprinkled several anti-white pejoratives throughout his 70-minute speech, referring to White people as “crackers” and “devils.” “We are so frightened over this Covid, now they’re getting us ready for th...

Houston Chronicle: Build bridges so minorities can trust vaccine Houston Chronicle Robert Luckey, the first person in the Houston region to get the coronavirus vaccine, is a registered nurse at Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran, and is assigned to the hospital’s COVID-19 unit. He is also Black. Why does that matter? Because the image of Luckey rolling up the sleeve of his blue scrubs to get the shot may help convince folks in Black and Latino communities that the much-anticipated vaccines are safe. Experience with a public health system that has often failed...