For more than half a century, the Crown Heights, Canarsie, and Flatbush areas have been a cultural touchstone for Caribbeans in America. Locals want to keep it that way.
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Communities in the largest diasporas united to help with health, economic, and cultural recovery.
Leaders, activists and artists across the US Caribbean diaspora came together to help communities.
Since the COVID-19 pandemic first began nearly two years ago, it exposed sharp disparities related to poverty, access to healthcare, and overall quality of life that one time left Black Americans more than three times more likely to die from the virus. We carry a higher burden of chronic disease that predisposes us to the more serious complications of coronavirus, Uché Blackstock, a physician who works in Brooklyn told the Washington post. We don t have access to care and if we do it s likely that care is of worst quality because they are often termed minority-serving.
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