DC EFFORTS

Black Coalition Against COVID is leading and coordinating local efforts to help fight the pandemic and support the needs of our community.

Open Community Letter on Vaccines

When I was 20 years old, I spent two weeks in isolation in Bronx Lebanon Hospital with a life-threatening case of hepatitis. I vividly and poignantly recall my tearful mother at my bedside reading to me the passage from the Gospel of John where Jesus speaks to his apostle Philip. Twenty years later a hepatitis vaccine was developed.

SICK AND TIRED: THE IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON MENTAL HEALTH

#MYMENTALHEALTHMATTERS: MINDFULNESS AND BEING A BETTER ME

Community Driven Support

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A Time for DC to Remember: Lives Lost During COVID-19

Rememberance

Among the most painful consequences associated with the COVID-19 pandemic has been the aloneness that it produces: victims are dying alone, they are being buried with truncated funeral rituals, and families are too often left to express their grief alone.

Protect yourself and Others

I Mask for DC

During this pandemic there is a lot we don’t know, some things we do know and plenty of misinformation. So, we asked the community for help! In June, the Black Coalition Against Covid-19 in partnership with THEARC Theater, Howard University’s Department of Theatre Arts, The Washington Informer Newspaper, WHUR and WPFW radio stations encouraged the community to do their research, and reach out to us through social media to help educate us on proper mask usage during the Pandemic.