REDLINING COVID-19 HEALTH CARE IN ESSEX COUNTY, NEW JERSEY

submitted by Lisa Davis How is DispatchHealth, which promotes itself as a mobile health care unit that makes house calls, able to operate in Essex County, NJ by only serving the predominantly white communities, while excluding the predominantly Black and Brown ones? According to it's website, "for the same cost as an urgent care visit, the DispatchHealth house call team arrives at your door able to test and treat COVID-19 symptoms, flu, strep, mono…don’t worry, we treat everything an urgent care can, and more. Stay Home, Stay Safe, Let DispatchHealth Come to You." But if you live in Essex County, you can verify by going to its zipcode checker, that Dispatch Health does not service the county's predominantly Black/Brown communities, which…

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The Ballot and the Bullet: Now more than ever! Campaigning for Self-Determination

REGISTER HERE The Black is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations is convening our fifth Electoral Campaign School on April 10 and 11, 2021. The Electoral Campaign School is a means by which we open up a new front in the struggle for black self-determination within the U.S. and elsewhere. With the Electoral campaign school, the Coalition challenges the monopoly of the electoral arena by a select segment of our community that has special ties to capitalist white power. The political situation in the U.S. is characterized by extreme turbulence. The failed post-election soft coup by former President Donald J. Trump was extended to a near-successful hard coup on January 6, 2021 when a mob of mostly white insurrectionists…

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Fascism – Neoliberalism & the Way Forward

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Register Here!!! What is "Fascism" or "Neoliberalism" to the African who suffers from colonialism? The Black is Back Coalition speaks to the many different approaches to this question. Join us March 6th when we discuss, Fascism - Neoliberalism and the way forward for Africans in the U.S. and around the world. This will be another engagingly informative webinar led by the Black is Back Coalition Steering Committee. Join us as we exchange the ideas of black self-determination as it relates to Fascism, Neoliberalism and Colonialism. Register Here!!!

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