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Health-care workers are not the only COVID heroes | Opinion

The real heroes of this time are those that find themselves thrust into positions of risk that they never saw coming.

Shelia Simmons (right) and her neighbors including Onisha Claire (with dog Lucy behind the slippers) step out May 6, 2020, during the Philadelphia citywide Doorway Dance Party for essential workers she is organizing. The 6:30 p.m. nightly event — coordinated by many of the same media professionals, artists, and entrepreneurs behind the city’s Guinness World Record Largest Soul Train Line in 2012 — got Radio One/Urban One, which owns four stations in the Philly area, to play the "Rocky" theme and "Ain't No Stopping Us Now” songs back-to-back every night at 6:30 p.m.
Shelia Simmons (right) and her neighbors including Onisha Claire (with dog Lucy behind the slippers) step out May 6, 2020, during the Philadelphia citywide Doorway Dance Party for essential workers she is organizing. The 6:30 p.m. nightly event — coordinated by many of the same media professionals, artists, and entrepreneurs behind the city’s Guinness World Record Largest Soul Train Line in 2012 — got Radio One/Urban One, which owns four stations in the Philly area, to play the "Rocky" theme and "Ain't No Stopping Us Now” songs back-to-back every night at 6:30 p.m.Read moreTOM GRALISH / Staff Photographer
    by Hatem Abdallah, For The Inquirer
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