The novel coronavirus has halted American life as we knew it to be and has placed an acute spotlight on the inequalities in society. The National Football League partnered with the Players Coalition to provide emergency relief funding to significantly impacted communities of color in the following states and cities: Florida, Louisiana, Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, […]
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Donald Trump threw Brian Kemp under the bus on coronavirus
Georgia Republican Gov. Brian Kemp was already taking loads of incoming — both in the state and nationally — for his deeply controversial decision to begin reopening his state on Friday. He thought that President Donald Trump, a key ally from whom Kemp has taken his cues on how to deal with the virus, was […]
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Small business money to clear Congress on Thursday but question of who gets aid looms over program
The US House of Representatives will vote to send an additional $310 billion to the Small Business Administration’s emergency lending program, kicking off the second run at a program that faced glitches, hurdles, problems and public outcry in its initial rollout. Yet that same program is so desperately needed — and oversubscribed — that it […]
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Virus pushes US unemployment to highest since Depression
Unemployment in the U.S. has swelled to levels last seen during the Great Depression of the 1930s, with 1 in 6 American workers thrown out of a job by the coronavirus. More than 4.4 million laid-off workers applied for unemployment benefits last week, the government said Thursday. In all, roughly 26 million people — more […]
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Prospects ready for closeup on NFL draft night from home
Yetur Gross-Matos would have liked to have been in Las Vegas for the NFL draft on Thursday night, but the Penn State defensive lineman is OK with participating from home. Gross-Matos is one of 58 prospects who will take part remotely in the draft, which has gone virtual this year because of the coronavirus pandemic. […]
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Pandemic and chill: Netflix adds a cool 16M subscribers
Netflix picked up nearly 16 million global subscribers during the first three months of the year, helping cement its status as one of the world’s most essential services in times of isolation or crisis. The quarter spanned the beginning of stay-at-home orders in the U.S. and around the world, a response to the coronavirus pandemic […]
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Clive Davis will produce Whitney Houston movie
The story of one of the biggest music stars of our time is coming to the big screen. Clive Davis and Pat Houston, on behalf of Whitney Houston’s estate, are on board to produce a film currently titled “I Wanna Dance with Somebody,” the story of singer Whitney Houston. The film, which will track her […]
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SCLC urges governors to avoid the “Tuskegee Experiment” mistake on the poor
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference issued a strong warning to the governors of Georgia, Texas, and other states who are contemplating reopening their states to commence as early as this week. “Don’t do it!” said Charles Steele Jr., the president and CEO of the Civil Rights organization co-founded and first led by Dr. Martin Luther […]
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Atlanta fitness trainers embrace virtual sessions with spread of COVID-19
With stay-at-home and shelter-in-place orders in effect nationwide, quarantine and social distancing quickly has grown into a crisis that has affected millions of people. Regulations regarding social distancing have all but eradicated some businesses once thought to be highly lucrative before the pandemic spread to the US. One of the industries that have taken a […]
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Judge won’t suspend handgun carry law during virus emergency
A judge declined on Tuesday to suspend a Georgia law that requires people to have a license to carry a handgun after a gun rights group raised concerns because licenses aren’t being issued during the coronavirus emergency. The same day that Gov. Brian Kemp declared a public health state of emergency, the chief judge of […]
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Vernon Jones abruptly resigns one week after endorsing Trump
In a little more than one week, Democratic lawmaker Vernon Jones announced his resignation from his Georgia legislature after he formally endorsed President Donald Trump’s reelection bid. Jones received swift backlash from Georgia Democrats disagreeing with the Lithonia Democrat. “Turn the lights off, I have left the plantation,” Jones said in a statement. “Someone else […]
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States shouldn’t reopen before May 1, and most should wait several more weeks, coronavirus model shows
With a handful of states reopening parts of their economies, a coronavirus model routinely cited by the White House warns that no state should be opening before May 1. South Carolina and Georgia, which are leading the pack to get their economic engines humming again this week, should not open until June 5 and June […]
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AP source: A-Rod, J-Lo retain JP Morgan in bid for Mets
Alex Rodriguez, once again, wants to be like Derek Jeter. A-Rod and Jennifer Lopez, who are engaged, have retained J.P. Morgan to represent them in raising capital for a possible bid for the New York Mets. The move was first reported by Variety and confirmed to The Associated Press by a person familiar with the decision […]
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AP: Publicly traded firms get $365M in small-business loans
Companies with thousands of employees, past penalties from government investigations and risks of financial failure even before the coronavirus walloped the economy were among those receiving millions of dollars from a relief fund that Congress created to help small businesses through the crisis, an Associated Press investigation found. The Paycheck Protection Program was supposed to infuse small […]
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Tyson will close its biggest pork plant after workers call out sick with coronavirus
Tyson Foods is closing its largest pork plant as a growing number of workers become ill from coronavirus infections. The plant, located in Waterloo, Iowa, had already slowed production because many of its 2,800 workers had been calling out sick. The Black Hawk County health department linked the Tyson plant to 182 of the county’s […]