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Ashes instead of soap: Inside Zimbabwe’s COVID-19 fight

May 18, 2020 zenger.news Comments Off

Many of Zimbabwe’s rural communities lack soap. So in the fight against COVID-19, people are using ashes. “Communities are drawing lessons from the 2018 cholera outbreak where villagers who couldn’t afford soap were encouraged by authorities to wash their hands […]

Popcorn with Zenger: Comedic premise of ‘Coffee and Kareem’ sours

May 18, 2020 zenger.news Comments Off

While the coronavirus outbreak has done serious financial damage to Hollywood, the film industry’s creative stagnation has been longstanding. Ignoring the revolving door of superheroes, remakes and reboots, Hollywood still has a glaring problem: The films labelled “comedies” are not […]

PROTEST VIDEO: Meet the clergy who won’t stop in-person preaching during COVID-19

May 17, 2020 zenger.news Comments Off

Dozens of Christian conservative activists and clergy members defied Virginia’s stay-at-home order and gathered Saturday for a “Pray for VA, Pray for USA event.” Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam put an executive order in place on March 30 because of the […]

Ashes instead of soap: Inside Zimbabwe’s COVID-19 fight

May 16, 2020 zenger.news Comments Off

Many of Zimbabwe’s rural communities lack soap. So in the fight against COVID-19, people are using ashes. “Communities are drawing lessons from the 2018 cholera outbreak where villagers who couldn’t afford soap were encouraged by authorities to wash their hands […]

Protest against COVID-19 quarantine erupts at Ohio state capitol

May 16, 2020 zenger.news Comments Off

Nearly 100 protesters descended Thursday on the Statehouse in Columbus, Ohio in defiance of Gov. Mike DeWine’s coronavirus stay-at-home order, claiming it violates their constitutional rights of freedom of assembly and freedom of religion during the Holy Week that precedes […]

Ben Chavis: ‘I welcome the return of millennials’ to reading Black newspapers

May 16, 2020 zenger.news Comments Off

Civil rights leader Dr. Benjamin Franklin Chavis Jr. sat down for an exclusive interview with Zenger News to discuss the future of the black press. “Some people say that millennials don’t read. And that’s not true. They do read,” said […]

‘Free them all!’ Activists demand ICE release detained illegal immigrants during COVID-19 crisis

May 16, 2020 zenger.news Comments Off

Dozens of activists stood in social-distancing-appropriate formations on Friday in New York City as they demanded U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement release detainees who have accused of entering the country illegally. “People are dying in these cages right now,” Benjamin […]

Former D.C. politician Michael Brown: Trump’s only black outreach is ‘to say ”I’m doing outreach”’

May 15, 2020 zenger.news Comments Off

As President Trump heads into a face-to-face showdown with former Vice President Joe Biden, he sees improving his limited popularity with black voters as a must-do. Former At-Large D.C. City Councilman Michael Brown says he isn’t buying it. “I don’t […]

For the first time, Clarence Thomas tells his story on television

May 15, 2020 zenger.news Comments Off

He didn’t have a flushing toilet as a child and, when he finally moved into a house that had one, he was fascinated and continually flushed it – annoying his grandfather, who paid the water bill. As a U. S. […]

Nigerians take the law into their own hands to fight COVID-19

May 15, 2020 zenger.news Comments Off

Some Nigerians who rejected a government order to stay in place and left COVID-19 affected states for home are being turned in by their own communities. The majority of Nigerians living and working in the three most densely populated states […]

Black and multi-ethnic Brazilians hit hard by COVID-19

May 11, 2020 zenger.news Comments Off

Brazilians are dying from COVID-19, but the Health Ministry doesn’t know who they are. Official numbers show black and multi-ethnic Brazilians, who make up about 32% of the population, account for one-third of COVID-19 deaths. That data, however, might not […]

Malik Yusef raised more than $10,000 to help slow COVID-19 behind bars

May 11, 2020 zenger.news Comments Off

The sweeping coronavirus pandemic has taken its toll on people from all walks of life. While many are at home practicing social distancing and wearing masks—which has been shown scientifically to slow the spread of the disease—there are some unable […]