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Chanelle Chandler, a Willingboro, N.J. native, is a producer and writer for Yahoo News. Before joining the team in 2018, she served as a writer and producer for Fox News Edge and as a producer and on-air talent for Rap Entertainment Television. Chanelle eventually chased the sun, relocating to Los Angeles in 2014. When she is not telling stories, she and her husband love to read them to their two daughters.
Yahoo NewsFirefighters in California get hero’s welcome as they rush to vaccinate poor and underserved residents
Knocking on doors, traveling to trailer parks and manning vaccination centers, Chula Vista firefighters seek out and vaccinate more than 1,000 people with no web access, language barriers, no transportation, and/or physical ailments during Operation Immunity — residents who might have otherwise fallen through the cracks.
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How one HBCU managed to weather the coronavirus pandemic while others have struggled
The coronavirus pandemic has rattled many higher education institutions, particularly historically Black colleges and universities. But William Harvey, president of Hampton University, told Yahoo News the measures his school has taken helped keep it afloat.
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HBCUs set fundraising records in a year when alumni like Kamala Harris have risen to new heights
For America’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities it has been a banner year.
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As pandemic enters its second year, exhausted health care workers are wary of what comes next
Following a record nationwide surge in hospitalizations for COVID-19, which has so far infected over 26 million Americans and killed more that 444,000, health care workers at U.S. hospitals are speaking out about the toll of working on the front lines of the pandemic.
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Black clergy joins push to convince skeptical African Americans to get vaccinated
Black church leaders are joining the effort to convince African Americans, long skeptical of the medical establishment, to put their trust in vaccines to help bring the pandemic to an end.
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As Trump gives way to Biden, the 'transfer of families' at the White House shatters norms
While Wednesday’s transfer of power from one presidential administration to another represents one of the enduring traditions of American democracy, President Trump’s refusal to concede defeat to President-elect Joe Biden has set the stage for several norms to be broken.
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Black Americans react to the pro-Trump riot at the U.S. Capitol
On the morning of Jan. 6, many Black Americans celebrated the news that the Rev. Raphael Warnock had become the first African American U.S. senator from Georgia. But hours later, President Trump exhorted supporters of his to head to the U.S. Capitol to make their displeasure known to lawmakers who were set to certify the results of the presidential election. Black Americans share their reactions.
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Holiday COVID surge pushes hospitals and ambulance crews to their breaking point
The holiday season led to California's worst surge of new COVID-19 cases since the beginning of the pandemic, forcing state hospitals and ambulance crews to make life-and-death decisions on who to treat.
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California becomes ground zero for holiday COVID-19 surge
California has borne the brunt of COVID-19’s deadly holiday surge. On Monday, Gov. Gavin Newsom acknowledged that the Golden State had recorded 525,000 coronavirus cases in the previous two weeks alone, with daily increases of more than 40,000 cases suddenly becoming the new norm.