This page brings together all BlackPast entries and posts related to the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic or, as it is called, the COVID-19 crisis. Since the crisis continues to evolve, do note that we will regularly add names to the various categories. If there are names that you feel should be on this list, please contact us at Quintard@blackpast.org. For overall statistics on this worldwide pandemic, please see this link:
Deceased
- Herman Cain
- Stanley Crouch
- Manu Dibango
- David Clyde Driskell
- Patrick Connery Ellis
- Judson Frazier Eneas
- Kamala/ James Arthur Harris
- Antoine Hodge
- Zindziswa Mandela-Hlongwane
- Ellis Marsalis
- Irving McPhail
- Benny Napoleon
- Colin Powell
- Charley Pride
- Barbara Ann Rowan
- Lynika Sharlice Strozier
- Carol Sutton
Recovered
- Nissim Black
- Keisha Lance Bottoms
- Ben Carson
- David Chappelle
- Byron Lowell Donalds
- Kevin Wayne Durant
- Idris Elba
- Sabrina Dhowre Elba
- Ezekiel Elijah Elliott
- Patrick Ewing
- Rudy Gobert-Bourgarel
- Kevin Hart
- Darryl Lynn (D.L.) Hughley
- Jesse Louis Jackson Sr.
- Lamar Jackson Jr.
- Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson
- DeRay Mckesson
- Von B’Vsean Miller Jr.
- Donovan Mitchell Jr.
- Cam Newton
- William “Smokey” Robinson
- James Todd Smith [LL Cool J]
- Stephen A. Smith
- Sylvester Turner
- Russell Westbrook III