Florida community enrolling people for coronavirus vaccines one conversation at a time
Lori Rozsa, The Washington Post
Feb. 21, 2021
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BELLE GLADE, Fla. - On a bright and sunny winter day, Tammy Jackson-Moore is going door-to-door in this town, offering appointments to receive a coronavirus shot.
In a state where getting a slot for the vaccine amounts to snagging a golden ticket, Jackson-Moore is offering that ticket to anybody she can find older than 65.
The need is acute in Florida: The state has the greatest prevalence of a fast-spreading virus variant first identified in the United Kingdom. The emergence of variants globally has added to the urgency of getting as many people as possible a shield of protection against the pathogen.
New homeless shelter and resource center in the Glades community By Sabirah Rayford | January 5, 2021 at 7:01 PM EST - Updated January 6 at 9:07 AM
Palm Beach County now has a shelter and resource center for people experiencing homelessness in the Glades Community.
Tammy Jackson Moore is known as the guardian of the glades.
“Whatever it is that the residents in our community have angst about or needs about, we will make sure that we go advocate on their behalf,” she said.
During the COVID-19 pandemic those needs grew. Housing is at the top of the list.
“Housing in Belle Glade as well as the Glades proper has always been an issue,” Jackson Moore said. “Sometimes, those individuals that were faced with homelessness went and lived with relatives, but those who couldn’t they had to resort to living out of their vehicles and some of them just resorted to living in some abandoned buildings.”
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From the pews of a church where white deacons once refused to seat African Americans, a group of Black singers in Alabama reminds us why preserving our memories of this historic year is vital even if we d rather just leave 2020 behind.
They re singing Auld Lang Syne, the Scottish ballad synonymous with ringing in the new year. It begins with this line: Should auld acquaintance be forgot / And never brought to mind?
That question of whether to forget the past is central to the art film,