For some perspective about the economic status of africanamericans, according to the urban leagues 2017 report on the state of black america, in the philadelphiacamden wilmington region, the africanamerican Unemployment Rate is 12 , while the white Unemployment Rate is 5. 3 . We begin this morning with nbc10s erin coleman who sat down with the president of the National Urban league, marc morial. He calls the black Community Strong and resilient, but admits there are still challenges ahead. Marc morial one challenge is were in this new environment, were in the trump environment. And rollbacks and cutbacks and efforts to repeal are, if you will, diminish value and the effectiveness of civil rights laws and civil rights principles is in play now. I think secondarily, we are in a time when, although black unemployment has come down, the economy is doing better, even black people who were not working 6 years ago, 7 years ago and now working, poverty, the challenges of peoples paychecks not
What my teenage daughter has taught me about surviving lockdown
From clever ruses to escape Zoom meetings to meal planning, it turns out that teens are full of bright ideas!
Angela Epstein with Sophie, her teenage daughter and lockdown mentor
Credit: Jon Super
It’s a chilly weekday morning and it’s time for elevenses in our lockdown home. I’m grazing from the biscuit tin. But my 16-year-old daughter, Sophie, has other ideas. On a 15-minute breather from online, lower-sixth schooling, she bustles around the kitchen with industrial focus.
Spooning shards of ice, a sprinkle of coffee, spoon of cocoa powder and slug of milk into the blender, she whisks with enthusiasm before taking a pull from a long glass.