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OPINION: As Donald Trump and Republicans continue their misinformation campaign around COVID-19, Black lives in red states literally hang in the balance As the COVID-19 variant strain begins to spread throughout the nation, almost 99% of the time it attacks the unvaccinated. On top that, misinformation politics around the virus and the vaccine in the United States is becoming deadly, particularly for Black people. Former President Donald Trump and his legions on Fox News and other conservative outlets have been spreading anti-mask, anti-virus protocols, and anti-vaccinations propaganda since the beginning of the pandemic. Fast forward to the summer of 2021,...

A CNN pundit took heavy online ridicule for her word choice on Tuesday, after referring to President Donald Trump as “retarded” in a now-deleted social media post. Sophia Nelson, who describes herself as a “frequent” guest on CNN, was reacting to a critical tweet about the president from fellow anti-Trump Republican Rick Wilson, when she replied, “They just always got an excuse to cover for his retarded ass!” The backlash came quickly against Nelson, the former GOP counsel for the House Oversight Committee, and she explained that she deleted her comment after the father of a special needs child...

I wish I would have known about it, but Sophia Nelson, who wrote the "Black. Female. Accomplished. Attacked." column in Sunday's Post hosted an online chat this morning on WaPo's website. As you can see from the transcript, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2008/07/23/DI2008072302382.html, a couple of people pressed her on the question of whether she was simply smearing anyone who criticized Michelle Obama as a racist and sexist. Her response was to accuse these people of engaging in a personal attack against her and then she just moved on. She will be on CNN's American morning tomorrow from 6:30 to 7 a.m. (she was...