Heads Up-Biden to mark upcoming 500,000 US Covid-19 deaths with candle lighting ceremony Monday

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Coming up at 6.15pm ET
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/02/21/politics/coronavirus-memorial-biden-500000-deaths/index.html

With the US approaching 500,000 Covid-19 deaths, President Joe Biden will mark the grim milestone Monday with a candle lighting ceremony and a moment of silence, the White House said Sunday.

The event, which is set for 6:15 p.m. ET at the White House, will also feature first lady Jill Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and second gentleman Doug Emhoff. Biden will deliver remarks on the lives lost ahead of the ceremony.
The ceremony underscores the empathetic message Biden has sought to bring to the US coronavirus response since taking office last month -- a departure from his predecessor. On Friday, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said the administration was working on plans so the President could use his "own voice and platform to take a moment to remember the people whose lives have been lost, the families who are still suffering."

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Worldometer already has deaths about 511,000

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1. Biden speaking now n/t

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3. Beautiful and solomn ceremony

especially with the candles outside of the WH.

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4. And it started at the precise time advertised

Beautiful is the word - class and empathy are back

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5. The entirety of his remarks were what was missing the last 4 years

Pure, unadulterated empathy.

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6. The candles too

Trump didn't give a shit

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8. We had news here in Philly where a well-known and beloved

black talk radio host/producer/station manager/part-owner, just died this past Saturday of COVID-19. That really hit me hard because he was such a force in the community here keeping some kind of black/progressive talk going and I know me and my mom had been listening to him (and his son) for decades. This didn't have to happen.

Philadelphia radio legend Cody Anderson dies

By 6abc Digital Staff and Trish Hartman
Monday, February 22, 2021 12:30AM


PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Cody Anderson, 78, is being remembered as a Philadelphia radio legend. Many in the city are mourning the news of his passing on Saturday due to complications with COVID-19.

Anderson was a radio host and former station general manager of WURD. He was also the long-time general manager of WDAS 105.3.

"Cody really understood how transformative media can be for Black people and for people who have been marginalized and caricatured and stereotyped," said WURD CEO Sara Lomax-Reese.

She explained it was Anderson who convinced her father to purchase WURD, helping to keep Black talk radio alive in Philadelphia.

https://6abc.com/cody-anderson-dead-wurd-philadelphia-radio/10358917/

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Congressman Dwight Evans
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PABJ is saddened by the news of the passing of local broadcast pioneer Cody Anderson on Saturday evening.

Anderson was a long-time general manager of @wdasfm and a radio pioneer in Philadelphia. He made history again as the first general manager of @onwurd.
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3:31 PM · Feb 21, 2021

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7. Lead story on all the Networks at 6.30pm

What a change

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9. They need to cover him more

At LEAST as much as they obsessed over 45 and his idiotic tweets.