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In this May 18, 2020, file photo, Belvin Jefferson White poses with a portrait of her father Saymon Jefferson at Saymon's home in Baton Rouge, La. Belvin recently lost both her father and her uncle, Willie Lee Jefferson, to COVID-19. African Americans are disproportionately likely to say a family member or close friend has died of COVID-19 or respiratory illness since March, according to a series of surveys conducted since April that lays bare how black Americans have borne the brunt of the pandemic. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

Poll: Black Americans most likely to know a COVID-19 victim

By Kat Stafford and Hannah Fingerhut - Associated Press

In this Dec. 19, 2013 photo, Bitstrips CEO and Creative Director Jacob Blackstock poses for a photo at the company's offices in Toronto. Bitstrips, a mobile application that helps people turn their lives into comic strips, may seem like a sudden sensation now that its vignettes are all over Facebook and other social networks. But the Toronto startup’s success has been a drawn-out process. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Chris Young)

Bitstrips amuses, annoys as its comics go viral

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE - Associated Press