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Wyandanch, Ny “Arming Black Millennials the New York With Information" New York “Arming Black Millennials with Information" 75 Cents Vol. 27 No. 18 May 7 – May 13, 2020 website: NewYorkBeacon.com STAY WOKE White Supremacists, neo-Nazis and other extremist groups are encouraging followers infected with coronavirus to spread the deadly disease to Black people, Jews and members of law enforcement, FBI reports, pg 3 2 Boris Johnson warns Man throws brick through Harlem against relaxing UK restaurant window shattering mural lockdown honoring Black history Newyorkbeacon.com By Victor Omondi he first world leader olice are looking for known to have had coro- a man who threw a navirus is now leading brick through the glass This nation’s response to it, and Pwindow of a restaurant in East in a speech outside 10 Down- Harlem, shattering a mural ing Street, the British Prime honoring Black History. The Minister had a clear message: incident took place shortly Don’t give up on the lockdown after midnight on Monday. yet. According to police, the shat- In his first remarks after and where the government has tered window featured a mural returning to work Monday, faced heavy criticism for its depicting important figures Johnson acknowledged that the early response. from black history such as and restrictions were hard to bear “If this virus were a phys- Martin Luther King Jr. and and risked taking a heavy toll ical assailant, an unexpected Malcolm X. on the economy. and invisible mugger, which The mural was painted by But he warned that the I can tell you from personal Danny Peguero, who says UK was at “the moment of experience it is, then this is the it took him time to come up hate to take over good. The ally, the suspect hasn’t been maximum risk” and suggest- moment when we are begin- with the masterpiece. Peguero restaurant is going to operate arrested yet, and anyone with ed restrictions would need to ning to wrestle it to the floor,” wasn’t pleased to see his art- normally and people from all information regarding the remain in place for the time Johnson said. work shattered after putting so races are welcome to eat from identity of the man is request- being in to avoid a second Johnson returns to the helm much to come up with it. there. She isn’t going to allow ed to call the NYPD’s Crime peak of infection. The UK’s at a pivotal moment. His gov- “I was upset with the time I racism to freeze the operations Stoppers Hotline. lockdown measures are due to ernment has faced criticism spent on it, and for someone to of the restaurant. Racism is still fresh in be reviewed again by May 7. for its handling of the disease, do that,” Peguero said. “We are an establishment the society and it’s depicted Johnson struck a charac- particularly whether it took the It’s not yet clear why the where we invite everyone of by such incidences. Hate teristically upbeat tone in his virus seriously enough in the suspect decided to hit the all races and genders,” Malave, resulting from racial preju- address, drawing on his own early stages of transmission restaurant’s window with a the owner of the restaurant dice drives weird behaviors brush with the virus to offer a in the UK; the availability of brick, but the police say the said. in some people. Why would message of hope to a country protective clothing for health restaurant may have been tar- “It’s saddening, it was such someone crash a window sim- BEACON, May 7 – 13, 2020 newyorkbeacon.com which has endured at least workers; and the country’s low geted because of the painting. a pretty picture, and it will go ply because it has a painting 20,000 deaths from the virus rate of testing. The police are investigating the back up, I’m confident in that,” of a black man? Is it to mean crime as a hate crime and hope she added. that the blacks don’t deserve to find the suspect soon. The restaurant posted a to be remembered or recog- However, the incident photo of the damage on Ins- nized? Well, if that’s how far hasn’t interfered with the op- tagram to let the online users the roots of racial prejudice COVID-19 ravaging erations of the restaurant. The know about the incident. In the have gone, then the living restaurant boss, Gisele Malave, meantime, no injuries resulted are far from achieving racial one of the richest Black says she is not going to allow from the incident. Addition- equality. counties in the U.S. Newyorkbeacon.com symptoms from his apartment NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio appoints on April 04, 2020 in Stamford, he coronavirus has been Connecticut. (Photo by John disproportionately im- Moore/Getty Images) wife Chirlane McCray to lead pacting the Black com- Seventy percent of the Tmunity and Prince George’s county’s 900,000 residents are County, Md. has become a from a minority background. coronavirus racial inequity task force prime example. Many of them are front-line Newyorkbeacon.com The predominantly African workers in professions like American suburb of Washing- maintenance workers and edu- ew York City May- ton, D.C., where the average cation who have been exposed or Bill de Blasio has African American income is to the virus. Others have un- announced that his $100K, has seen a surge in derlying health issues such as Nwife, Chirlane McCray, will cases and in deaths. diabetes, hypertension, and co-chair a coronavirus Task The Washington Post recent- obesity. Force on Racial Inclusion and ly reported that the county has To date, 130 African Amer- Equity as the city plans its been inundated with the sick. ican, 15 Latino, and 19 white eventual reopening. Parking lots have been turned people have died because of “The economic and racial into makeshift trauma centers to the novel coronavirus in PG disparities that have been made offer care as the ICU’s are full. County, according to current so clear by this crisis, we knew Funeral directors are running out data. about them before,” said de of places to store the increase “It’s served as a magnify- Blasio. “A powerful, painful of bodies as the death toll from ing glass for challenges we exclamation point has been put COVID-19 rises. knew we had,” said county on them by this crisis.” Medics wearing personal executive Angela D. Also- De Blasio said he formed protection equipment (PPE), brooks (D). “We know that the task force to ensure New transport an African American when this is over, we can’t York’s most vulnerable aren’t “The primary function of deemed essential but treated patient showing COVID-19 return to business as usual.” left behind in the recovery. this task force cannot be to as expendable– just don’t have. “We’re seeing a really engage in a long, protracted Ultimately, we need results, disturbing disparity where process of deliberation and not a report, and the work of people of African descent are study, dwelling on how we this task force must have a being hit very hard by this got here,” said New York City voice in and be supported by disease, disproportionately Public Advocate Jumaane the city’s budget.” hard,” he said on the New Williams in a statement. “We Meanwhile, city lawmakers York Amsterdam News pod- know this disparity was created on both sides are giving the cast. “And it goes back to a by a long history of systemic side-eye over the appointment lot of things we all know too inequities and injustices. Ad- of McCray, most especially well, it goes back to massive ditional delays waste time that amid the controversy over of disparities in health care pre- the people being devastated her billion-dollar mental health dating this crisis.” by this crisis– those who are program, ThriveNYC. New York Beacon(USPA 011-156) serving metropolitan New York is published weekly by SmithHaj Group,Inc at 405 Lexington Avenue, 26th Floor, New York, NY 10174. Periodicals postage paid at New York, NY. POSTMASTER; send address changes to The New York Beacon 405 Lexington Avenue, 26th Floor, New York, NY 10174. , Web Site: www.newyorkbeacon.com, Email: [email protected] for the newspaper, [email protected] for the web site. Subscription rate: $35.00 per year. Coalition of civil rights leaders support White supremacists 3 CBC in protecting Black health urging members to By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior Correspondent spread coronavirus to ASHINGTON, D.C., May 3, 2020 – Na- Blacks, Jews, cops: FBI tional Newspa- Newyorkbeacon.com said that extremist groups were Wper Publishers Association directing members to use spray (NNPA) President and CEO, frican Americans have bottles to spread infectious Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr., been hit hardest by fluids, People reported. National Action Network the coronavirus, con- The groups also advised (NAN) Founder Rev. Al Atracting and dying of the virus members to leave “saliva on BEACON, May 7 – 13, 2020 newyorkbeacon.com Sharpton, Dr. Julianne Mal- at disproportionate rates. Now door handles” at FBI offices veaux, the Southern Chris- the FBI reports that white su- throughout the country, spit tian Leadership Conference (D-Calif.), the 55-member have continued to express premacists, neo-Nazis and other on elevator buttons and spread (SCLC), National Coalition CBC has worked almost non- strong opposition to any legis- extremist groups are encouraging the virus in “nonwhite neigh- of 100 Black Women, and the stop in fighting for health lation that would give insurers followers infected with the coro- borhoods,” the brief states Black Women’s Health Imper- equity in the African American more control over health care navirus to spread the deadly dis- according to MSNBC.
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