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To better grasp what’s currently going on, you should understand there are six elements that control the world, and the domino effect of occurrences that can happen when they’re disturbed.

This week, the face of COVID-19 vaccinations has been Black ones, with African American health care professionals from various states serving as "the first" in their areas to get the vaccinated.

In an attempt to right the wrongs of past racial inequality, Major League Baseball (MLB) has added players from the Negro Leagues to its official records.  This decision is long overdue and Black baseball players will finally get the "recorded" recognition they deserve, in comparison to white athletes who many of the Negro players top in statistics.

Texans may soon start breathing some cautious sighs of relief as the first shipment of the coronavirus vaccine, which includes 224,250 doses to 109 Texas hospitals in 34 counties, are set to arrive on Dec. 14, according to the Texas Department of State Health Services.

If anyone ever truly got real with Donald Trump, they'd explain to him that the nail was put in his presidential coffin when this nation had to bury George Floyd, Breanna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and the 270,000 Americans who died due to COVID-19. Not once, and for not one of them, has the president stood up and said "enough is enough" denouncing the acts or afflictions that killed the innocent.

When Donald Trump asked Black Americans "What have you got to lose?" he should have been asking himself that as he surely found out what he had to lose – the presidency -  no matter how much he tries to dispute it. The days of his manipulation and race baiting will no longer be tied to his “commander in chief” title.

Trump Administration Housing Secretary Ben Carson says he is "out of the woods" from the grips of COVID-19, and is crediting unapproved, experimental treatments with saving his life, but there is no medical evidence that those treatments worked.

The first and only Black mayor of New York City, David Norman Dinkins, who worked tirelessly to improve race relations in the nation's largest city he referred to as a "gorgeous mosaic," died Monday after being found unconscious at his Upper East Side Manhattan home. He was 93 years old.

Angela Davis was no physical threat to them, but she was a mental powerhouse, unshakeable and unbreakable as she stared the white reporter in the eyes, answering his questions that he thought were hard-hitting, and she thought were idiotic and simplistic from a person who had no idea of what it meant to be Black in America.

If there was ever more of a need to stress the importance of hunkering down this winter, it is now, because Texas has become the first state to surpass a million Coronavirus cases in the United States last week, as the country battled a third wave of new infections and recorded over 100,000 infections three times in less than a week.