The year 2014 was an amazing one. This past year was full of stories that have touched our hearts, angered many in our community and forced many of us into action. As we close 2014 and look forward to the promise of a new year, we take a look at the some of the biggest stories […]
A woman who returned to Scotland Sunday has been diagnosed with Ebola, the first case in the country, BBC News reports. SEE ALSO: Healthy Holiday Eating With Dr. Ro The woman arrived from Sierra Leone — one of the West African countries where the latest Ebola outbreak originated. She began showing symptoms of the disease […]
Saying they “risked and persisted, sacrificed and saved lives,” Time magazine selected Ebola health care workers as its Person of the Year for 2014. A list of runners-up includes Ferguson protesters:“Their refusal to let a life be forgotten turned a local shooting into a national movement.” Other runners-up include Russian President Vladimir Putin, President of […]
It’s been exactly a year since Nelson Mandela passed away, but his legacy continues. People across the globe are paying homage to South Africa’s first black president; a man who broke barriers and made sacrifices to evoke social and political change. President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama today released a statement reflecting on the legacy […]
After the death of nearly 7,000 Africans and one American from the deadly Ebola virus, there is heartening news on the vaccine front. The U.S. government through the National Institutes of Health and British pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline has developed a promising new Ebola vaccine, which could be ready as early as January 2015. In the clinical trials, which […]
The doctor from Sierra Leone who was being treated for Ebola in the United States has died, according to AFP. We’ll bring more on this story as it develops. RELATED STORY: Surgeon With Ebola Coming To US For Care
Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital officials reportedly have reached a settlement with the family of Thomas Eric Duncan (pictured), after relatives charged that workers failed to properly treat the Liberian national who became the first person to be diagnosed with Ebola in the United States, the Washington Post reports. RELATED: Thomas Eric Duncan’s Sister Denied Experimental […]
After two boys got in trouble at school for allegedly telling Ebola jokes, their parents decided to teach them a lesson. They pranked the boys by telling them that they had contracted the Ebola virus. In the Instagram video, posted by Tevyn Demmings, a woman can be seen wearing a surgical mask and taking the child’s temperature. […]
A mainstay of the black entertainment magazine scene is about to go dark. Sister2Sister, a publication that was designed for African American women and highlighted black Hollywood, has filed for bankruptcy. Jamie Foster Brown, the publisher of the 28-year-old magazine, says she wants to focus on building its online brand. “The community does not want […]
An unidentified Newton County, Ga., high school teacher was mandated by the district to remain home as an Ebola precautionary measure, upon learning from a student that her husband had just returned from a trip to West Africa, according to WSB-TV. RELATED: Really? Fearing Ebola, Universities Disinvite African Journalists The school district wasted no time in […]
While reportedly chanting, “Ebola,” schoolyard bullies on Friday attacked two brothers, who immigrated to New York City from Senegal about a month ago, according to NBC 4 New York. RELATED: Really? Fearing Ebola, Universities Disinvite African Journalists The 11- and- 13-year-old victims, in sixth and eighth grade, respectively, were beaten and verbally abused by other students […]
UPDATED Monday, October 27, 2014 at 5:00 p.m. E.T.: Kaci Hickox has been released from medical quarantine in New Jersey, and will be allowed to return to her home in Maine by private transport. Reported NBC News: “Since testing negative for Ebola on early Saturday morning, the patient being monitored in isolation at University […]
