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New Jersey residents might like to think that, as Northerners, we don t share the South s brutal slave history.
We would be wrong. New Jersey was known as the slave state of the North, said Elaine Buck, who co-founded the Stoutsburg Sourland African American Museum in Hopewell with Beverly Mills in 2018.
The legacy of slavery is hidden in plain sight all over the map, in family names like Berkeley, Carteret, Beverwyck, Morris, Livingston and Schuyler, whose wealth and power was founded, in part, on slave labor.
Florida Department of Health
State health officials reported 11,423 new COVID-19 cases, Thursday, for a total of 1,687,594 infections.
The Florida Department of Health reported 202 coronavirus-related deaths, Jan. 28, increasing the statewide death toll to 26,456 fatalities.
The latest single-day positivity rate reported by the Florida Division of Emergency Management stood at 9.58% on Wednesday. Over the past two weeks the single-day positivity rate has ranged between 8.37% and 15.84%.
The Agency for Health Care Administration reports that as of this morning 6,512 patients are admitted to hospitals throughout the state with a primary diagnosis of COVID-19, including 465 patients in hospitals in Charlotte, Collier, DeSoto, Hendry, Lee, Manatee and Sarasota counties combined.
Airbnb hosts trying to turn away inauguration rioters
After the attack on the Capitol, the company is taking steps to prevent insurrectionists from renting rooms – but hosts are finding their own creative methods as well.
By Ashley FettersThe Washington Post
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Supporters of President Trump storm the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. Maj. Gen. William Walker, the commanding general of the District of Columbia National Guard, said he needed to wait for approval from Defense officials before dispatching troops, even though some 40 soldiers were on standby as a quick reaction force. Evelyn Hockstein/The Washington Post
WASHINGTON Cynthia Harris knew something was up on Jan. 2, when she got two booking requests to rent the English-basement apartment below her home for the coming week. One potential guest sent a note urging her to approve the booking that day, and wanted to know how many miles away her location was from the National Mall.
Airbnb hosts are trying to turn away inauguration rioters
Ashley Fetters, The Washington Post
Jan. 12, 2021
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Supporters of President Donald Trump storm the U.S. Capitol building on Wednesday. Many in Washington are concerned that riots will return around the inauguration Jan. 20.Washington Post photo by Evelyn Hockstein
WASHINGTON - Cynthia Harris knew something was up on Jan. 2, when she got two booking requests to rent the English-basement apartment below her home for the coming week. One potential guest sent a note urging her to approve the booking that day, and wanted to know how many miles away her location was from the National Mall.