Black sororities and fraternities working to get people into the vaccination line
Black sororities and fraternities working to get people into the vaccination line
MICHELLE SMITH: Reaching out to spread the COVID vaccine.
Here’s an uplifting story from The Guardian: It’s about an effort by historically Black fraternities and sororities to help get Black Arkansans vaccinated for COVID-19.
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The national experience has been that the minority community has been underserved in the vaccine rollout. It’s due in part to the familiar impediments to equal treatment — place of residence, income and other factors. There’s also resistance to vaccinations among Black Americans on account of distrust of the medical establishment (think the Tuskegee experiments).