AFRICAN AMERICAN REPORTS

Legendary civil rights leader, reverend and NAN (National Action Network) founder Al Sharpton has announced that he has tested positive fo...

Senator Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) announced Thursday that he had tested positive for COVID-19 in breakthrough cases. Warnock said in a twe...

Mayor Lori Lightfoot has tested positive for COVID-19, and will be working from home. Lightfoot announced her diagnosis in a brief sta...

On Monday's The View, co-host Joy Behar explained moderator Goldberg's absence by revealing Goldberg tested positive for COVID ove...

Statement by Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III after positive COVID-19 test: I tested positive this morning for COVID-19. I reque...

Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (MA-07) issued the following statement after receiving a positive COVID-19 test result: “After experiencin...

U.S. Representative Bobby L. Rush (D-Ill.) released the following statement after testing positive with a breakthrough case of COVID-19: ...

Howard University has made a statement via it's website that it is delaying the start of its spring classes until Jan. 18 as a result ...

Thoughts of a Colored Man — the acclaimed play written by Keenan Scott II and produced on Broadway by a slew of stars including Grammy win...

House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.) announced via Twitter on Wednesday evening that he tested positive for COVID-19 in a breakthrou...

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka tested positive for COVID-19, he said. The mayor said he is asymptomatic, and so far his family has not tested p...

U.S. Senator Cory Booker said on Sunday they that he tested positive for COVID-19 and was experiencing mild symptoms amid a nationwide sur...

Baltimore Mayor Brandon M. Scott's Director of Communications, Cal Harris released the following statement on the mayor testing pos...

Rev. Jesse Jackson and his wife are both hospitalized after testing positive for Covid-19. "Doctors are currently monitoring the co...

NYPD Det. Shantay Neal-Baker died Saturday morning from Covid-19 after serving New York City for 20 years. In an internal memo to the de...

Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott is reinstating a face mask mandate as of 9 a.m. Monday for both vaccinated and unvaccinated people. ...

An African-American doctor who died of coronavirus left a message about racial disparity not just when it comes to how COVID-19 affects pe...

Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (Massachusetts's 7th District) spoke on the House floor to demand robust direct cash payments to people...

On Wednesday, December 16 at 8 pm ET / 5 pm PT, the NAACP will host a virtual town hall series entitled UNMASKED: COVID Vaccines. Over the...

Congressman Donald M. Payne, Jr. introduced the Pandemic Planning and Response for Schools Act today. The bill would “require the Secret...