African Americans

Warner Records Signs Black Lives Matter Protest Singer, 12

June 19, 2020 3:54 pm

Sooooooooo Thankful To Share Alongside The Bryant Family And @WarnerRecords, The Most Important Message In The World!! #IJustWannaLive By @KeedronBryant I Also Want To Officially Welcome Keedron To The #UMadeUsWhatWeAre Family!!! “I JUST WANNA LIVE” DROPS JUNETEENTH!!!

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Keedron Bryant’s song “I Just Wanna Live”, about his fears growing up as a black man in America, will be released

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Why Afro-Americans Are Dying At Higher Rates From Virus

April 8, 2020 6:13 pm

The new coronavirus isn’t biased about who it infects — so why does data emerging from some states suggest that African Americans are bearing the brunt of the pandemic in the US?

Experts say blacks are disproportionately impacted by underlying health conditions linked to poverty, face discrimination in medical care, and are more likely to work jobs that require them to leave their home.

“We know that blacks are more likely to have diabetes, heart disease, lung disease,” the nation’s top doctor, Surgeon General Jerome Adams told CBS News on Tuesday.

These chronic illnesses, which are in turn linked to …

Sanders Most Favoured By African-Americans, Floors Trump

February 26, 2020 5:22 am

U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders has widened his lead for the Democratic presidential nomination and overtaken Joe Biden in support among African Americans – a voting bloc that until now has largely favoured the former vice president, according to a Reuters/Ipsos national poll released on Tuesday.

Among all registered voters, including Republicans, 47% said they would vote for Sanders in a hypothetical general election matchup, while 40% said they would vote for President Donald Trump. Biden also has a 7-point advantage in support if he were the nominee, and Bloomberg would have a 4-point advantage.

The result of the poll could …