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Pandemic Within a Pandemic
Black Americans are disproportionately suffering from a set of dual ills: the novel coronavirus and systemic racism. Evidence shows Black Americans are more likely to fall sick from or die from Covid-19. Concurrently, they are also more likely to die from police brutality. These are just two symptoms of the systemic racism that has disadvantaged Black Americans for hundreds of years.
In This Collection
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A grand jury indicts one officer involved in the Breonna Taylor case
The announcement comes after a $12 million settlement for the family and months of Black Lives Matter protests.
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The COVID economy means millions of Americans are at risk of food insecurity
Americans are struggling to consistently get enough nutrition. Cisgender women and transgender people — both of whom have suffered disproportionately in the COVID recession — are at the greatest risk.
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When systemic racism meets the coronavirus, Black women suffer economically
Black women have lost hundreds of thousands of jobs due to the coronavirus. But long-held, systemic racism had already put them in a precarious position.
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With Cori Bush, Black Lives Matter could go to Congress
Bush’s primary win in Missouri’s 1st District means the movement could be elevated into federal halls.
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Replanting roots in a Southern food desert
Farmers, activists and city planners nationwide are pivoting in light of the pandemic’s impact on food access. In Mississippi, that also means restoring a fraught connection with land.
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Susan Rice sees dual pandemics of coronavirus and racism as national security threat
The former national security adviser and ambassador doesn't think elected experience is a necessary qualification for the vice presidency.
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Are White women finally waking up?
Amid nationwide protests, White women are reckoning with racism—and their own complicity. -
Sen. Amy Klobuchar on race, justice and the pandemic
The Minnesota senator addresses her record on race and lessons on inequity she's learned from the pandemic.
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Family seeks answers in fatal police shooting of Louisville woman in her apartment
On March 13, the 26-year-old aspiring nurse was killed in her apartment, shot eight times by Louisville police officers who officials have said were executing a drug warrant. The family has sued.
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Black activists and officials see a major threat in South’s plans to reopen
A coalition of mostly Black female activists is asking public health officials to extend their stay-at-home orders.