Black Americans

According to the National Shooting Sports Foundation, a firearms trade association gun sales for Black Americans rose 58 percent in 2020. It was the highest bump in gun sales of any ethnic group that year. In the first quarter of 2021, another NSSF report revealed 90 percent of gun retailers reported a general increase of […]

Black Americans were among the hardest hit demographics by the coronavirus, but a light is at the end of the tunnel regarding new testing sites becoming available in New York state. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said (https://13wham.com/news/local/ny-antibody-testing-begins-today) on Sunday that the state would begin testing for COVID-19 antibodies within the population. Fox56.com reported (https://fox56.com/news/coronavirus/some-grocery-stores-including-wegmans-chosen-for-antibody-testingasome-ny-grocery-stores-including-wegmans-chosen-for-antibody-testing) […]

When the COVID-19 pandemic swept the nation, America’s retail workers took on the role of unlikely heroes as state, local, and federal officials enacted strict social distancing measures to curb the spread of the deadly virus. An unfortunate consequence, however, has been that Black communities are among the hardest hit, exacerbated by the nation’s racial […]