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Yusef Salaam Working On Novel About Wrongful Imprisonment
UberEats Waives Delivery Charges And Offers Contactless Deliveries To Support Social Distancing
UberEats is doing its part to provide safety during the coro- navirus pandemic.
The food service app has put various adjustments in place to protect customers, businesses, and workers in order to prac- tice social distancing.
Janelle Sallenave, the head of Uber Eats for the US and Canada, released a state- ment through the Uber news- room.
The statement mentioned, “As more customers are choos- ing to stay indoors, we’ve waived the Delivery Fee for the more than 100,000 independ- ent restaurants across US & Canada on UberEats. We will also launch daily dedicated, targeted marketing cam- paigns—both in-app and via
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email—to promote delivery from local restaurants, espe- cially those that are new to the app.”
Along with delivery fees waived, the app is offering con- tactless deliveries where cus- tomers can request orders to be left on doorsteps. UberEats
will also deliver sanitization products to keep drivers and vehicles clean.
To help businesses they have changed their pay cycle and have launched dedicated tar- geted marketing campaigns to promote delivery to local restaurants.
Yusef Salaam and his book ‘Punching the Air’.
NEW YORK (AP) — One of the former “Central Park Five” is teaming with an ac- claimed children’s author on a young adult novel with a per- sonal theme — being wrong- fully sentenced to prison.
Yusef Salaam and author Ibi Zoboi are working to- gether on “Punching the Air,” according to Bray + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Chil- dren’s Books. The book comes out Sept. 1.
Salaam was among five black and Latino teenagers from Harlem who were co- erced into confessing to a rape they didn’t commit in 1989. They were exonerated in 2002, but not before all had served prison time. They later re- ceived a multimillion-dollar settlement from New York City. Ken Burns made a doc- umentary about them and Ava DuVernay directed a Netflix series.
“Punching the Air” tells of a gifted, but troublesome teen, Amal Shahid, who is con- victed of a crime he didn’t com- mit.
`Punching the Air’ reflects not only my story, but the sto- ries of millions of young boys and girls of color who face the injustice of mass incarceration and the criminal justice sys- tem,” Salaam said in a state- ment Tuesday. “Books have the power to change the way we think and transform societies. This novel is a continuation of my work to shine a light on the reality of our criminal justice system and inspire young peo- ple to advocate for change.”
Zoboi’s books include “Pride” and “American Street,” a National Book Award finalist in 2017 for young people’s lit- erature. She and Salaam met while both were attending Hunter College in 1999.
SF Mayor London Breed Orders Lockdown Of City
The city of San Francisco and several of its surrounding counties will be required to stay at home, aside from grab- bing “essential needs” in a mandate that was handed down by Mayor London Breed on Monday.
The “shelter in place” order which will affect roughly 6.7 million people, is set to begin at midnight until April 7 ac- cording to Breed’s directive during Monday’s press confer- ence, according to NBC Bay Area.
This makes San Francisco the largest U. S. city to place an
All movie theaters, gyms, bars and restaurants will close in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut at 8 p.m. until fur- ther notice to help curb the spread of coronavirus, the gov- ernors of each state said Mon- day.
The move came as Gov. Cuomo announced there are nearly 1,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases in the Empire State — along with a total of seven deaths.
“We have agreed to a com- mon set of rules that will per- tain in all of our states — so don’t even think about going to
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in-home curfew/stay at home order. “These measures will be
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a neighboring state because
disruptive to daily life, but there is no need to panic,” Breed said.
Grocery stores, gas stations, banks and essential govern- ment services like sanitation pick up will continue. How- ever, bars and gyms will close while restaurants will only re- main open for takeout and de- livery as the CDC advised on Sunday evening that groups of 50 people or more should re- frain from convening. When leaving the house, residents are expected to stay at least six feet apart from those who are not household members.
there’s going to be a different set of conditions," Gov. Cuomo said of the three-state ban. “I believe we’re the only region in the country that has done this."
”I think the federal govern- ment should have set up a uni- form set of rules, so, absent that, regional coordination is imperative," he added.
Cuomo said crowds of over 50 people will also be banned in all three states. Restaurants can remain open for take-out and delivery only — and the state is allowing eateries to in- clude booze in to-go orders.
Coronavirus Shutdown Declared Across New York, New Jersey And Connecticut As Cases Near 1,000 In Empire State
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