AFRICAN AMERICANS ARE AT A
GREATER RISK TO GET COVID-19
AND IN MANY PLACES, THE DEATH
RATE FOR BLACK PEOPLE IS MUCH
HIGHER.
THAT IS WHY THERE IS AN
EFFORT TO RAISE AWARENESS AND
THE IMPORTANCE TO REAR A FACE
MASS.
HOW COMMUNITY MINDED PEOPLE ARE
USING THE TRADITIONAL PRINTS TO
INSPIRE AFRICAN-AMERICANS TO
WEAR FACE MASK.
Reporter: IN THE BASEMENT OF
A ST. PAUL HOME, SITTING
UNDERNEATH HIS CLASSIC SEWING
MACHINE, KING PENDLETON IS
DOING HIS PART TO SAVE LIVES.
WANT TO MAKE SURE THEY ARE
REAL TIGHT AT THE END BECAUSE
THAT IS WHERE THE ELASTIC CAN
COME APART.
Reporter: HE IS MAKING MASS
TO HELP STOP THE SPREAD OF
COVID-19.
HE IS USING AFRICAN PRINTS,
COMBINING BEAUTY WITH SAFETY TO
INSPIRE AFRICAN-AMERICANS TO
WEAR A MASK BACK
I SAW MANY PEOPLE DID NOT
HAVE MASKS.
HIM AT THE RACIAL JUSTICE
NETWORK PROTOCOL OUT TO ANYONE
WHO COULD MAKE MASKS.
WE WILL GO INTO THE
COMMUNITY, WEARING MASKS
OURSELVES AND PRACTICING SOCIAL
DISTANCING AND WE WILL PUT
MASKS IN PEOPLE'S HANDS.
IS ONE IN SEVEN THAT ANSWER
THE CALL AND IS DOING HIS PART
TO HELP.
PEOPLE WERE EXCITED TO SEE
THERE WAS OUTREACH GOING ON AND
WE WERE REMINDING FOLKS THAT
CONTRARY TO SOME OF THE FALSE
INFORMATION THAT HAD BEEN PUT
OUT EARLY ON, CLAIMING THAT
BLACK PEOPLE COULDN'T GET COVID-
19.
Reporter: ACTIVISTS SAY
COVID-19 IS GETTING CLACK
COMMUNITIES HARD, SHE BLAMES
MISINFORMATION AND UNDERLYING
CHRONIC ILLNESSES FOR THE
SPIKE.
WEIRS GOING TO SURVIVE THIS
PANDEMIC.
GIVING EVERYONE A CHANCE TO
SURVIVE THIS IS WHAT THIS IS
ALL ABOUT.
THIS PANDEMIC IS NOT ABOUT
BIG EYES AND LITTLE USE.
