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Communities of Color at Higher Risk for Health and Economic Challenges due to COVID-19
By Samantha Artiga, Rachel Garfield, and Kendal Orgera—April 7, 2020 The COVID-19 outbreak presents potential health and financial challenges for families, which may disproportionately affect communities of color and compound underlying health and economic...
Under the Blacklight: The Intersectional Vulnerabilities that COVID Lays Bare (Pt. 2)
By African American Policy Forum—April 2, 2020 The past several weeks have prompted unprecedented levels of turmoil and unpredictability due to rising alarm over COVID-19. While American society has taken precautionary measures to counter the spread of the virus,...
Under the Blacklight: The Intersectional Vulnerabilities that COVID Lays Bare (Pt. 1)
By African American Policy Forum—March 28, 2020 The past several weeks have prompted unprecedented levels of turmoil and unpredictability due to rising alarm over COVID-19. While American society has taken precautionary measures to counter the spread of the virus,...
In a First, State Department Designates Russian White Supremacists as Global Terrorists
By Jennifer Hansler and Kylie Atwood—April 6, 2020 For the first time in history, the US State Department has named a white supremacist organization as Specially Designated Global Terrorists. Nathan Sales, the department's coordinator for counterterrorism, announced...
Social Distancing Is a Privilege
By Charles M. Blow—April 5, 2020 People like to say that the coronavirus is no respecter of race, class or country, that the disease Covid-19 is mindless and will infect anybody it can. In theory, that is true. But, in practice, in the real world, this virus behaves...
Coronavirus Racism Infected My High School
By Katherine Oung—March 14, 2020 What happens when stereotypes and fear about Covid-19 arrive before the actual disease does? In the video above, Katherine Oung, a 11th grader in Florida, shows what teenagers like her and her friends face as the coronavirus pandemic...
2 Top French Doctors Said on Live TV That Coronavirus Vaccines Should Be Tested on Poor Africans, Leaving Viewers Horrified
By Julian Kossoff—April 3, 2020 A discussion between two top French doctors on live TV left viewers horrified when they proposed that Africa should become a giant laboratory for coronavirus vaccine testing because the continent lacked the resources to defend against...
Early Data Shows African Americans Have Contracted and Died of Coronavirus at an Alarming Rate
By Akilah Johnson and Talia Buford—April 3, 2020 The coronavirus entered Milwaukee from a white, affluent suburb. Then it took root in the city’s black community and erupted. As public health officials watched cases rise in March, too many in the community shrugged...
‘We Need Clarification Now’: Indian Gaming Industry Being Shut Out of Coronavirus Relief Program
By Acee Agoyo—April 3, 2020 With the $33.7 billion Indian gaming industry at a standstill in the midst of the worst public health crisis in decades, tribal casino operations are in danger of being left out of a major coronavirus relief program. The Trump...