“WE ARE STILL IN A PANDEMIC,” Denver Black Lives Matter activist Tay Anderson shouted in capital letters on Twitter as he urged everyone who has rallied against police violence in recent days to join him in getting tested for the coronavirus. Crowds of people, many maskless and yelling, can pose […]

Lots of ingenuity and a generous donation allowed the community of Paducah, Kentucky, to build their own free COVID-19 testing center. A corporate wellness director, an anonymous donor, a fishing tournament weigh-in trailer and an empty church with a large parking lot – not exactly what you’d think would make […]

There’s a perception out there that rural residents are less concerned about the pandemic. A national poll says otherwise. Residents of rural America are taking the COVID-19 pandemic just as seriously as the rest of the nation, a national online poll says. Nearly nine out of 10 rural respondents say […]

This piece was originally published in Scalawag Magazine in May 2020. Scalawag amplifies the voices of activists, artists and writers reckoning with the South. You can read the original article here. On the inside, at Raleigh’s Central Prison (CP), at first we joked about zombies and the apocalypse as cruise ships […]

The coronavirus has traveled the globe, infecting one person at a time. Some sick people might not spread the virus much further, but some people infected with the SARS-CoV-2 are what epidemiologists call “superspreaders.” Elizabeth McGraw, the director of the Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics at Pennsylvania State University, explains […]

In the rural westernmost counties of North Carolina, providing services to neighbors in the best of times requires resourcefulness – doubly so in a crisis. Getting from point A to point B on these mountain two-lanes often entails circumventing point E. It’s 35 miles from Franklin, county seat of Macon […]