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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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

By Lynda V. Mapes—March 24, 2020 Tribal communities know death by pandemic. As history threatens to repeat itself with the menace of the novel coronavirus, tribal communities are turning to their teachings and one another to protect themselves amid what they call a...

By Jennifer Bendery—April 1, 2020 In the end, tribes got about $10 billion in the emergency $2 trillion stimulus bill that President Donald Trump signed into law last Friday. But if the White House had its way, tribes wouldn’t have gotten a penny in direct relief,...