Huffington Post covered the launch of the African Defense Project, describing the widespread stigma against African immigrants connected to Ebola panic, the launch of our website and hotline, and concluding "African Immigrants facing Ebola stigma now have somewhere to turn."
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Huffington Post covered the launch of the African Defense Project, describing the widespread stigma against African immigrants connected to Ebola panic, the launch of our website and hotline, and concluding "African Immigrants facing Ebola stigma now have somewhere to turn."
A nursing assistant at a Dallas hospice chain was suspended from work after her daughter visited from Kenya- which is on the opposite side of the African continent from the Ebola outbreak.
A teacher in a Louisville, Kentucky Catholic school resigned after a parent panic over Ebola fears kept her from returning to work, despite Kenya being thousands of miles away from any Ebola outbreak. The article also mentions African students being subject to Ebola "jokes" from public school teachers.
In a conversation about the American response to the Ebola outbreak, a panel of political analysts suggest that race-based political fear-mongering along with ignorance and indifference to the African continent have driven Ebola stigma and backlash.
Liberians in Portland, OR struggle with a double burden: fear for their families in Liberia, and Ebola stigma in the U.S.
Amaha Kassa, Executive Director of African Communities Together, appeared on the Africa Today show with Walter Turner to discuss African immigrants, the African Community Defense Project, and why we should be targeting Ebola- not Africans.
The African Community Defense Project is now online!
Amaha Kassa, Executive Director of African Communities Together, appeared on the Africa Today show with Walter Turner to discuss African immigrants, the African Community Defense Project, and why we should be targeting Ebola- not Africans.