BCN Staff – March 28, 2022 – Little Rock Mayor Frank Scott Jr. will deliver his third State of the City address today (March 28) at the city’s first Black chief executive.…
Tag: COVID-19
NCI study highlights pandemic’s disproportionate impact on Black, American Indian/Alaska Native, and Latino adults
BCN Staff — Oct. 6, 2021 — The global COVID-19 pandemic has taken a toll on Black, American Indian/Alaska Native, and Latino individuals in the United States, causing more deaths…
Gov. Hutchinson declares state emergency, calls lawmakers back to State Capitol to revisit ban on mask mandates
BCN Executive Editor Wesley Brown – July 30 — Gov. Asa Hutchinson on Thursday called a special session next week to consider whether to repeal a new law that went…
Black Health: As COVID-19 cases spike again among unvaccinated, Arkansas is now nation’s hotbed for fast-spreading Delta variant
Colorized scanning electron micrograph of an apoptotic cell (blue) infected with SARS-COV-2 virus particles (orange), isolated from a patient sample. NIAID