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What do we have to lose? by Julianne Malveaux

A little less than four years ago, the president tried to get black votes with the question, “What do you have to lose?”

Prison problems during pandemic, by Jesse L. Jackson Sr.

Across the United States and around the world, prisoners are among the most vulnerable to the coronavirus. Overcrowded facilities, shortages of food and medicine and totally inadequate testing expose prisoners who are disproportionately poor and afflicted with prior conditions that …

All Americans deserve better, by Dr. E. Faye Williams

If we didn’t know before, we now know that we have a failed federal government. The man in the White House is so bad that we don’t really need to look for failures down the line.

The coronavirus and achievement gap, by Julianne Malveaux

The coronavirus has upended our way of life, especially in urban America, where social distancing has replaced the laughter of children playing on the street, the excitement of preparing for graduation and prom and the frenzy of last-minute test preparation.

Goal of COVID-19 testing is to protect Richmonders and their families, by Mayor Levar M. Stoney

The COVID-19 pandemic is wreaking havoc across the globe and hitting the United States especially hard. And the hardest hit racial demographic in the U.S. is African-Americans, who are both contracting the disease and dying from the disease at a …

Time to correct the disparities

It’s no exaggeration to say that the COVID-19 pandemic has upended Virginians’ lives. We’re practicing new routines — like social distancing, obsessive hand washing, preparing kids for a day of remote learning and sewing masks — while grappling with difficult, …

COVID-19 and inequities in health care system, by Kristen Clarke

In 1966, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said, “Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in healthcare is the most shocking and inhumane.”

Beware of payday, car loans now, by Charlene Crowell

For the foreseeable future, “normal” life will be indefinitely suspended due to the global pandemic known as the coronavirus.

Black people and COVID-19, by Dr. Oliver Brooks

It is oft stated in the black community that “When the country gets a cold, we get pneumonia.”

Who will get the ventilators?, by Julianne Malveaux

The “big and bad” United States is seeing its world dominance recede. We are being van- quished both by a virus and by the ignorance of the commander in chief.

Can we handle the truth about coronavirus? By Glenn Ellis

Don’t you already know everything you need to know about coronavirus? What else is there for you to know that you haven’t already heard, you ask?

Billions for Boeing; pennies for people, by Julianne Malveaux

The development of the $2.2 trillion stimulus package was extremely flawed.

Opportunity in crisis by Marc H. Morial

“Far too many African-Americans still struggle to lead healthy and economically secure lives. This is due to the long-standing effects of racism, which touches all African- Americans regardless of socioeconomic status. These effects can be reversed, but it will take …

Do your job, FDA by Dr. Marilyn M. Singleton

While on lockdown to save our neighbors from a lonely death from the disease called COVID-19, many of us have turned to movies. I beg you not to rent “Pandemic,” “Contagion” or “28 Days Later.” Try “Harriet” instead. Harriet Tubman …

Out with the status quo by Dr. Wilmer J. Leon III

As America muddles its way through these perilous times, too many in the African-American community appear to be more confused than ever.