“People called the newspaper and asked us for the ratio of water to bleach.”
“People called the newspaper and asked us for the ratio of water to bleach. There was a rumor, could be because they heard this from somebody in Washington, that drinking bleach helps. We told them zero percent bleach, you cannot drink bleach, that will kill you. As a Black newspaper in the community, people call our Cincinnati Herald staff for everything . . . ."
-- Jan-Michele Kearney, owner of The Cincinnati Herald and member of The City of Cincinnati Council (September 2020). [Excerpt from Jan-Michele's story in "Who We Are Now: Stories of What Americans Lost and Found During the COVID-19 Pandemic."]
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