In response to the devastating effects of the COVID 19 coronavirus spreading at an exponential rate in our communities, long time community activists stepped up to the plate to help ease the burden, the suffering, and food insecurities in Chicago communities everywhere.
Here in South Shore Yvette Moyo, founder and Chairperson of Real Men Charities Inc., publisher of The South Side Drive Magazine, and CEO of Real Community Investment Group Inc. which owns, operates, and manages The NEW Quarry Event Center, joined along with many others, Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s Racial Equity Rapid Response Team to help manage the relationship between the government and the community members in matters of dissemination of information, economic support, food security, social justice reform and reaching those most vulnerable in our communities. Of course, the main reason for this coalition is to address and manage the devesting impact of COVID 19 shutdowns and restrictions on our society and help ensure support also reaches those most vulnerable and disproportionally affected by the deaths caused by COVID 19.
Mrs. Moyo gladly serves on the Racial Equity Rapid Response Team in collaboration with South Shore Works, Auburn Gresham, and several other south, north, and west side community activists and organizations to help us all through this unprecedented moment of world history in social justice reform, global public health crisis, economic insecurity and of course our domestic terrorism. Chicago is proving that by working together we can make a change.
Chicago’s Response to Coronavirus Pandemic and COVID-19 Testing (Mayor Lori Lightfoot)
April 20th, 2020
Washington Journal Primetime
APRIL 20, 2020 Washington Journal Primetime Chicago’s Response to Coronavirus Pandemic and COVID-19 Testing Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D) talked about the response to the COVID-19 in the nation’s third-largest city and her online and in-person outreach efforts to encourage Chicagoans to stay indoors amid the stay-at-home order implemented by the state of Illinois. She also answered viewer questions about the pandemic response in the city.
