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REDDITCH Labour has selected councillor Andy Fry as its new leader to take the party forward. Labour councillors chose the Lodge Park ward councillor after former leader Bill Hartnett lost his seat in the borough council elections last week. During the group s annual meeting, councillor Debbie Chance was elected as deputy leader, councillor Wanda King was elected as deputy chair and Jenny Wheeler as group whip. Andy Fry said: “The results last Thursday were a disappointment for the Labour Party in Redditch but with a 31 per cent share of the vote we have a role in scrutinising and putting forward alternative policies based on our manifesto and values, not only for our supporters, but for those who for whatever reason didn’t vote and may feel disenfranchised with politics at the moment.
Martin Pengelly
Gabrielle Canon here, taking you through the remainder of Friday from the west coast! But before I do, hereâs an update from my colleague
Martin Pengelly:
Remember
the great debate over derp? Ben Jacobs, once of this parish, does and heâs written a fine Medium piece about it, in light of the more than slightly ridiculous fuss this week over Joe Bidenâs comment about Republicans and âneanderthal thinkingâ about mask mandates in the age of Covid.
Hereâs the video of Joe saying itâs so: Play Video Joe Biden accuses Republican governors of neanderthal thinking for lifting mask mandates â video
Black sororities and fraternities working to get people into the vaccination line
Black sororities and fraternities working to get people into the vaccination line
MICHELLE SMITH: Reaching out to spread the COVID vaccine.
Here’s an uplifting story from The Guardian: It’s about an effort by historically Black fraternities and sororities to help get Black Arkansans vaccinated for COVID-19.
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The national experience has been that the minority community has been underserved in the vaccine rollout. It’s due in part to the familiar impediments to equal treatment place of residence, income and other factors. There’s also resistance to vaccinations among Black Americans on account of distrust of the medical establishment (think the Tuskegee experiments).
A Covid-19 vaccine clinic in North Little Rock. Photograph: Courtesy of Michelle Smith
Soon after Arkansas began allowing people over 70 to receive the Covid-19 vaccine in January, Wanda King heard from her aunt and cousin, who fell in that age group, that they were struggling to get their shots. They live in Cotton Plant, Arkansas, a rural town in the eastern part of the state with a population of about 650. The town has a medical clinic, but no pharmacy.
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“The town is really limited on resources,” says King, a native of Cotton Plant who now lives in Little Rock. “Basically, they were asking me for help.”