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How Inequity Gets Built Into America’s Vaccination System

By NWPB News March 1, 2021

People wait in line for the COVID-19 vaccine in Paterson, N.J., Thursday, Jan. 21, 2021. Some hospitals around the U.S. are facing complaints about favoritism and line-jumping after their board members and donors received COVID-19 vaccinations or offers for inoculations. CREDIT: Seth Wenig/AP

It’s a fact that simply being eligible for a vaccine in America doesn’t mean that you can instantly get one. Yet the ability to get to the front of the line isn’t the same for everyone. ProPublica has found that, whether intentionally or not, some vaccine programs have been designed with inherent barriers that disadvantage many people who are most at risk of dying from the Read More

WATCH: Frederick Douglass’ Descendants Deliver His ‘Fourth Of July’ Speech

By NPR News July 4, 2020

Descendants of Frederick Douglass give his July 4 speech

In this short film, five young descendants of Frederick Douglass read and respond to excerpts of his famous speech, "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" which asks all of us to consider America's long history of denying equal rights to Black Americans.Read More

President Trump Ramps Up Criticism Of Jay Inslee And Jenny Durkan Over Seattle Protest Zone

By Austin Jenkins June 15, 2020

In this screenshot from C-SPAN, President Trump answers questions from reporters at a White House roundtable event on June 15, 2020. He used the occasion to criticize Washington state officials over the ongoing protest on Seattle's Capitol Hill.

Stepping up an attack he began on Twitter last week, President Trump on Monday spent more than four minutes at a White House meeting inveighing against Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan and the six-block protest area now known as CHOP, for Capitol Hill Organized Protest.Read More

From Jobs To Homeownership, Protests Put Spotlight On Racial Economic Divide

By NPR News June 2, 2020

Malaysia Hammond places flowers at a memorial mural for George Floyd in Minneapolis on Sunday. Police brutality has sparked days of civil unrest. But the sparks have landed in a tinderbox built over decades of economic inequality, now exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic.

African Americans are 40% less likely to own their homes than whites. And blacks are more likely to hold jobs that put them at risk of the coronavirus. The civil unrest follows decades of inequality.Read More