"Weaponized and Racialized": Police Departments Use COVID-19 to Target Black & Brown Communities & Trump Death Clock: Creator Eugene Jarecki Says "Reckless Mishandling" of COVID-19 Must Be Quantified
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"COVID-19 Has Been Racialized": Black Scholar Jill Nelson Arrested for Chalking "Trump = Plague" ([link removed])
Black and Brown communities are being disproportionately targeted and policed in New York City's response to the spread of COVID-19. We speak ... Read More → ([link removed])
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"Weaponized and Racialized": Police Departments Use COVID-19 to Target Black & Brown Communities ([link removed])
Viral images have shone a spotlight on uneven policing. Some show police officers distributing masks to White residents in crowded New York City parks — and ... Read More → ([link removed])
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Trump Death Clock: Creator Eugene Jarecki Says "Reckless Mishandling" of COVID-19 Must Be Quantified ([link removed])
As the death toll from COVID-19 in the United States surpasses 80,000, an unusual new billboard called the Trump Death Clock in New York City's Times Square ... Read More → ([link removed])
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"A Lynch Mob": After Months of Inaction, 2 White Men Are Charged with Murder of Ahmaud Arbery in GA ([link removed])
The two white men caught on camera shooting and killing Ahmaud Arbery, an unarmed 25-year-old African American man, were arrested and charged Thursday ... Read More → ([link removed])


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COVID-19 Cases Mount as States Reopen Economies ([link removed])

NY Investigating Deaths of at Least 3 Children Linked to COVID-19 ([link removed])

Bronx Hospital Investigating Nurse Who Shared Video of Medical Staff Speaking Out About Lack of PPE ([link removed])

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Another COVID-19 Case Confirmed at White House as Barack Obama Blasts Trump’s “Chaotic” Response ([link removed])

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