coronavirus
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GTFOH Trump Watch: Why the $2,000 Trump Stimulus Check Is Bullshit
My homeboy Lavelle and I had this thing we did when a kid wanted to fight me and I didn’t want to fight. I would act like I was taking off my shirt and Lavelle knew that was his cue to jump in and act like he was breaking it up. I was rail-thin growing…
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ESPN’s 30 for 30 Podcasts Will Revisit the NBA Shut Down With March 11 2020
For hoop heads, March 11 is a day that will live on in infamy. On that fateful Wednesday night, Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert tested positive for the coronavirus, bringing the entire league to a halt and leaving us to endure a world without NBA basketball. It took nearly five months for the NBA to…
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Sen. Angus King: Want to Stop Coronavirus? Make Netflix and Disney Plus Free
Sen. Angus King (I-Maine) has an idea that’s so stupid it actually might be goddamn brilliant! In a letter Monday, King asked executives at Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney Plus, HBO Max and Hulu to make their streaming services free during the holidays to get people to stay home and therefore curb the spread of the…
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The 2020 Wypipo Awards
In 2018, The Root embarked upon a mission to prove our commitment to the “It’s OK to be White” movement by honoring the notable achievements of America’s underwashclothed community. Despite owning more Grammys, Tonys, Oscars and Emmys for the music, art and culture created by Black folks, we tend to ignore the most important aspect…
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GTFOH Trump Watch: You’ve Stolen an Election Before, So Why Won’t You Do It Now?
Georgia Governor Brian Kemp is a thief. He stole his first name from a famous crooner whose surname is McKnight and his last name from a promiscuous former NBA dunker. He stole his style from Ward Cleaver and his haircut from Colonel Sanders (not the Latinx version. Man, I want so much more for Mario…
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Carol Sutton, Actress Featured in Steel Magnolias and Queen Sugar, Dead at 76 From COVID-19
New Orleans-based actress Carol Sutton, whose long career spanned film, stage, and television performances, has died at 76 from complications of the coronavirus. Sutton had been hospitalized at the Touro Infirmary in New Orleans with a COVID-19 infection and died on Thursday night, reports WGNO ABC. The veteran actress featured in numerous big name film,…
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Black ER Doctor Says an Arizona Hospital Sidelined Him After He Tweeted About a Lack of Hospital Beds
Dr. Cleavon Gilman, an emergency-medicine physician who has been outspoken about the dire conditions in American hospitals due to the coronavirus pandemic, says he was barred from returning to work at Yuma Regional Medical Center in Arizona after tweeting about shortages in hospital beds last month. According to Gilman, the healthcare staffing company he works…
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A Republican Coronavirus Denier’s Story Told In 2 Acts
Tennessee state Rep. David Byrd once claimed that the “mainstream media has sensationalized the reporting on COVID-19 in the service of political agendas.” Byrd has been seen on the House floor without a mask, which goes against everything that scientists have suggested during the pandemic. On Thursday, Byrd posted a message to Facebook asking friends…
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Dr. Anthony Fauci Appeals to Black Community: ‘The Vaccine That You’re Going to Be Taking Was Developed by an African American Woman’
With skepticism about the safety and efficacy of a COVID-19 vaccine running high among African Americans, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading infectious disease expert, wants Black people to know that a Black woman, Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett, was heavily involved in developing one of the vaccines that will soon be available to Americans later this…
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Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot to Mitch McConnell: ‘Dear God, Stop the Nonsense’
If you are unfamiliar with Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, she’s the no-nonsense politician who told her constituents during a pandemic that their jumpshot was always going to be weak and, therefore, they should stay their asses in the house and off the basketball courts. I will not discuss the countless memes of her telling you…