On a drizzly Tuesday morning in late October, a group of students from Sophia Enriquez’s Introduction to Latino/a Studies in the Global South class piled into a bus and headed to a farm in Hillsborough to pick cempasúchil flowers, a species
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Local Leaders Build COVID Vaccine Trust in Black and Latinx Communities
Sho Hatakeyama I 9th Street Journal
Durham residents exit Southern High School after receiving the COVID-19 shot at a vaccination site in late January.
When Rev. Mark-Anthony Middleton looks into the eyes of some of his elderly Black parishioners, he sees a deep, historic hurt that leads them to question the coronavirus vaccine.Â
âOlder folks still have the memory of Tuskegee,â Middleton, a Durham city council member, said, referencing the Tuskegee Study, a study on syphilis that withheld proper medical treatment from hundreds of misinformed infected Black men as recently as 1972.
Grassroots Group Urges North Carolinians to Pledge Stimulus Checks to Undocumented Families
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A local immigrantâs rights group is restarting a grassroots initiative encouraging residents to donate part or all of their $600 stimulus checks to undocumented families.Â
Congress has mandated the IRS send over 100 million taxpayers the payments by January 15 to give struggling families a modest financial boost. But undocumented residents are ineligible to receive any federal relief, though many are frontline and essential workers or are part of a community particularly hard hit by COVID outbreaks.Â
The charge to help needy familiesâdubbed #PledgeYourCheckâis once again being led by grassroots group Siembra N.C., which has offices in Durham and Greensboro.Â