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Wake Up With WURD's Solomon Jones interviews actress Sheryl Lee Ralph about the hit show "Abbott Elementary," why teachers love it so much and the miseducation of Philadelphia schoolchildren.
2021 has been a long year: We launched URL Media a year ago, with the goal to “Uplift, Respect, and Love” the work of Black and Brown-owned media organizations in our network. Watch our year in review,
S. Mitra Kalita
By S. Mitra Kalita
For the last few months of her life, my cousin Riku would WhatsApp me from India regularly. The first few messages were heavy, about where time went and how she didn't want hers to be so short. Then in recent days, she started asking what I ate for lunch or dinner. She wondered if my kids were in school or at home and how long their commute was. She wanted to know where I physically was in the house and if I had drank tea that day at all.
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Vaccines are now widely available in the United States. But for the rest of the world… where vaccines are still largely unavailable… the pandemic is now worse than ever. So far, much of the discussion around vaccine supply to the developing world has focused on donating excess doses. 80 million doses might sound like a lot. But the reality is that it’s not nearly enough.
So far, most vaccine production has focused on supplying wealthy nations in Europe and the United States but places like Africa are in dire need of life saving vaccines.
Alongside the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 this past year, we’ve seen the proliferation of disinformation on social media. This parallel epidemic, what the WHO calls an infodemic, has thwarted efforts to control the pandemic around the world. Some of the most vulnerable people and countries have been the targets of these campaigns.
By now most people know that SARS-CoV-2 is a virus that emerged from an animal host. Zoonotic transmission is when pathogens spillover from animals into humans.
By S. Mitra Kalita and Sara Lomax-Reese
Hello, voters!
Dear Neighbor,
Hello, and welcome to the second edition of this NYC election-focused newsletter! If you haven’t seen the first one, check it out here. I’m independent journalist Felipe De La Hoz, and our goal is to bring you some coverage of the upcoming municipal primaries from the perspective of constituencies and communities.
Neighbors,
Hello, and welcome to the first NYC election-focused issue of this newsletter! I’m independent journalist Felipe De La Hoz. I’ve covered local politics for a variety of outlets, and have in recent years specialized in immigration, spending a year as a staff reporter for Documented, one of the organizations that forms URL Media. Aside from writing, I have my own immigration policy newsletter and teach a class at the CUNY Graduate Center. I’m fluent in Spanish and Portuguese, and passionate about providing context and analysis to the flood of news that we all seem to get bombarded with every day.
First PubDear Neighbor,
Black Americans are twice as likely to die from COVID as white Americans. Despite this, polls show that African-Americans are less interested in receiving the vaccine than other groups. But for people of color who do want the vaccine, inequities in U.S. healthcare are making access to vaccines more difficult.
Dear Neighbor,We interrupt your attempts to get a vaccine with a very important reminder:
