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Photo: Castleski (Shutterstock) The oldest organization of Black physicians has vowed to independently vet the safety and effectiveness of any potential COVID-19 vaccine. According to CBS News, the National Medical Association (NMA) is tracking the data due to fears that political motivations could outweigh safety concerns when it comes to …

“What does affect their lives is it’s basically a good economy,” Woodward said. “It’s a clever strategy: Get into these fights, which Kushner talks about, and if they are on favorable ground, it will help Trump.” (Sure, Trump’s lying, but that was always part of the deal: “He was elected …

Former Vice President Joe Biden and his running mate Senator Kamala Harris are actively engaging with small businesses run by African American from battleground states including Michigan to North Carolina in an effort to understand the best ways to build the country back after the coronavirus pandemic.  Biden held a …

Former Chicago Bears running back Gale Sayers has died at the age of 77 Wednesday due to complications from dementia. Although Sayers only played six seasons in the NFL, he was regarded by many as one of the best running backs in NFL history. As a rookie in 1965, the …

Photo: Dxkfoto (Shutterstock) Man, nothing seems to offend white folks more than a simple appeal for a better, more inclusive world. If you needed proof of that outside of The Root’s comment section, then take a look at Dublin, Ohio, where teachers were told by district officials to remove their …

Read: Anthony Fauci, lightning rod Fauci is much more optimistic about the development of a vaccine, which has progressed at an unprecedented speed. He cited the large-scale, Phase 3 clinical trials currently under way in the U.S. “The results that we have actually do look good,” he said. (One trial, …

During a video discussion released with renowned feminist author Gloria Steinem, Meghan Markle hinted that she’s backing Joe Biden for the presidency. The Duchess of Sussex hopes that voting in November can “deliver change.” During their discussion, voter intimidation and suppression came up, and Markle made it pretty clear what …

Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron may not be known to many outside of the Breonna Taylor case, but a look into Cameron’s past shows significant GOP ties. Cameron, a Black Republican, previously served as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s legal counsel from 2015 to 2017. During that time, Cameron was …

Photo: Apu GOMES (Getty Images) The only person to face charges for his actions in the early hours of March 13, the day Breonna Taylor was killed, was a former Louisville Metro Police officer who, in fact, wasn’t charged with her fatal shooting at all. On Wednesday afternoon, a grand …

Photos: Wuhan under quarantine If 76 Days has a narrative, it’s about order being slowly and painfully reborn out of total confusion, of humanity reasserting itself in the face of an uncompassionate and destructive disease. The main characters are health-care workers, nurses and doctors who flit from patient to patient …