Featured image: Members of the San Francisco Peace Collective, a group that organized against anti-Asian violence in San Francisco during the early onset of COVID.
See also: the history of racialized healthcare inequality.
See also the The COVID Racial Data Tracker. To follow news on COVID and mass incarceration, follow Cross Cultural Solidarity’s Twitter list of incarceration scholars and activists, as well as The Marshall Project and The Sentencing Project.
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- Racism is Contagious: map of Reported Incidents of Asian American-Targeted Hate.
- Tracking covid-19 excess deaths across countries.
- Immigrants in Covid America: Documenting the Impact of Covid-19 on Immigrants & Refugees in the U.S.
March. Movement 4 Black Lives: National Demands for COVID-19.
March. Think Out Loud (podcast): Confederated Tribes Of The Umatilla Indian Reservation Respond To COVID-19.
March 3. The Praxis Podcast: COVID-19: Health Justice Conversations. Follow on Twitter.
March 4. Natalia Molina (interview): Why pandemics activate xenophobia: The coronavirus is much more than a public health problem.
March 4. Code Switch (podcast): When Xenophobia Spreads Like A Virus.
March 18. John McKiernan-González: On Epidemics and Quarantines: Lessons from Latinx History.
March 23. Dion Lim: Coronavirus outbreak: Neighbors form peace group to keep Chinatown safe from crimes.
March 24. Adam Serwer: Trump Is Inciting a Coronavirus Culture War to Save Himself: The president’s attempt to racialize the pandemic is a cover-up of the fact that he trusted false reassurances from Beijing.
March 24. Showing Up For Racial Justice (SURJ): 5 Anti-Racist Actions for White People to Take During COVID – 19.
March 25. Caitlin Dickerson & Miriam Jordan: ‘Plz Cancel Our Cleaning’: Virus Leads Many to Cast Aside Household Help. One family laid off its nanny but wondered if she would video chat with the children for free. Across the country, undocumented household workers are being cast out with little help.
March 26. Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez: Asian San Franciscans reporting spike in hateful attacks.
March 27. NPR: Asian Americans Are Blamed By Some For COVID-19 Outbreak.
March 30. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor: Reality Has Endorsed Bernie Sanders. The coronavirus crisis is laying bare the brutality of an economy organized around production for the sake of profit and not human need.
March 30. Kershaw St. Jawnson: Wu-Tang Clan’s RZA Shuts Down Xenophobia Against Asians.
March 31. NPR: Asian Americans Feel The Bite Of Prejudice During The COVID-19 Pandemic.
March 31. Jessica Mendoza & Jingnan Peng: Why disease boosts discrimination, and what that costs society.
April. Diné Situation (podcast): Preexisting Colonial Conditions.
April 1. NPR: The Coronavirus Doesn’t Discriminate. U.S. Health Care May Be A Different Story.
April 1. Ibram X. Kendi. Why Don’t We Know Who the Coronavirus Victims Are? The coronavirus is infecting and killing Americans of all races. But there’s little public data on whether the virus is having a disproportionate impact on some communities.
April 1. Brittany Wong: Self-Care Tips For Asian Americans Dealing With Racism Amid Coronavirus: Therapists share the advice they give Asian American clients who are dealing with discrimination during the COVID-19 pandemic.
April 4. Evan Gerstmann: Irony: Hate Crimes Surge Against Asian Americans While They Are On The Front Lines Fighting COVID-19.
April 6. Ibram X. Kendi: What the Racial Data Show: The pandemic seems to be hitting people of color the hardest.
April 7. Spencer Overton: The CDC must end its silence on the racial impact of covid-19.
April 7. Jake Lahut: Fauci says the coronavirus is ‘shining a bright light’ on ‘unacceptable’ health disparities for African Americans.
April 7. Linda Poon: What Bigotry Looks Like During Social Distancing.
April 8. Carol Anderson: Republicans Could Use the Coronavirus to Suppress Votes Across the Country. This Week We Got a Preview.
April 8. Robert Griffin, John Sides, & Michael Tesler: Negative views of Asian people have risen in both parties.
April 8. Jeffery C. Mays and Andy Newman: Virus Is Twice as Deadly for Black and Latino People Than Whites in N.Y.C.
April 8. Michele L. Norris: The coronavirus is amplifying the bias already embedded in our social fabric.
April 8. Code Switch (podcast): A Treacherous Choice And A Treaty Right.
April 10. Rashawn Ray: How to reduce the racial gap in COVID-19 deaths.
April 11. Code Switch (podcast): Why The Coronavirus Is Hitting Black Communities Hardest?
April 12. NPR: 7 Out Of 10 Patients Killed By COVID-19 In Louisiana Were African American.
April 12. Nicole Acevedo & Suzanne Gamboa: Coronavirus could ‘decimate’ Latino wealth, which was hammered by the Great Recession. The crisis has either erased or is threatening to erase Latinos’ decade-long climb back to financial stability.
April 12. Cathy Park Hong: The Slur I Never Expected to Hear in 2020: As an Asian-American, I’ve been conditioned to a certain kind of unspoken racism. This pandemic has unmasked how vicious it really is.
April 14. On Point (podcast): Asian American Discrimination And The Coronavirus Crisis.
April 14. Derrick Bryson Taylor: For Black Men, Fear That Masks Will Invite Racial Profiling. African-American men worry that following the C.D.C. recommendation to cover their faces in public could expose them to harassment from the police.
April 14. Conor Finnegan: 75% of migrants deported to Guatemala on single flight tested positive for coronavirus.
April 14. Ibram X. Kendi: Stop Blaming Black People for Dying of the Coronavirus: New data from 29 states confirm the extent of the racial disparities.
April 16. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor: The Black Plague: Public officials lament the way that the coronavirus is engulfing black communities. The question is, what are they prepared to do about it?
April 16. Alexia Fernández Campbell and Alex Ellerbeck: Federal agencies are doing little about the rise in anti-Asian hate: The CDC and DOJ worked to stop bias incidents and hate crimes following the SARS outbreak and the 9/11 terrorist attacks. No such plans have been released amid the coronavirus pandemic.
April 16. Mitchell Lerner: Asian Americans won’t stop discrimination by helping to fight covid-19.
April 16. Lauren Underwood: The Coronavirus Is a Wake-Up Call for Racial Inequality. It’s Time to Change the System.
April 16. The Current (podcast): Why are Black Americans more likely to die from COVID-19?
April 17. John Hopkins University School of Medicine: Racial Data Transparency: States that have released breakdowns of Covid-19 data by race.
April 17. Lori A. Flores: Farmworkers Are Essential, but Their Rights Don’t Reflect That: Operating in conditions ripe for the spread of coronavirus, it’s not a matter of if farmworkers will get sick—it’s a matter of when.
April 17. Robert Bullard: The “Father of Environmental Justice” on Why He Isn’t Surprised by COVID-19 Health Disparities. An interview with Robert Bullard on how the novel coronavirus exacerbates existing environmental health issues.
April 17. Priscella Vega: Residents of Mexicali’s Chinatown face prejudice, blow to culture with coronavirus.
April 17. Pod for the Cause (podcast): Black Lives and COVID-19.
April 19. Lisa Deaderick: Novel coronavirus doesn’t discriminate, but legacy of racism creates harsher consequences for black people.
April 19. Marie Myung-Ok Lee: The Racist Art of Naming a Virus.
April 19. Tim O’Donnell: Navajo Nation trails only New York, Louisiana in coronavirus tests per capita.
April 20. Joan Flores-Villalobos: Black Deaths and Black Mourning in the Time of Coronavirus.
April 20. Omar Khan: Coronavirus exposes how riddled Britain is with racial inequality.
April 21. Laura Barrón-López: Trump coronavirus response feeds distrust in black and Latino communities.
April 21. Rev. William Barber: Racism and Covid-19 Are a Lethal Combination: The Trump administration is happy to find ways to blame black and brown Americans for getting sick.
April 21. Richard Morgan: The Bronx, long a symbol of American poverty, is now New York City’s coronavirus capital.
April 21. Li Zhou: How the coronavirus is surfacing America’s deep-seated anti-Asian biases.
April 22. Megan Cerullo: Up to 90% of minority and women owners shut out of Paycheck Protection Program, experts fear.
April 22. John Cho: John Cho: Coronavirus reminds Asian Americans like me that our belonging is conditional.
April 22. Carly Goodman: President Trump’s immigration suspension has nothing to do with coronavirus. Restrictionists have long sought to cut U.S. immigration — to zero.
April 22. Deirdre Cooper Owens: COVID-19 reveals a long history of health inequities affecting African Americans.
April 22. NPR: Immigration Crackdowns Are Not Unusual In Trying Times.
April 23. Rampant: Revolutionary Politics: Black Lives Matter and COVID-19: An Activist Roundtable.
April 23. Ronald J. Daniels and Marc H. Morial: The covid-19 racial disparities could be even worse than we think.
April 23. Storm Gifford: Mexican wrestlers creating distinctive face masks for COVID-19 outbreak.
April 23. Harvard University Center for African Studies: Joint Statement on Xenophobic and Racist Actions in Response to COVID-19.
April 23. Andrew Kaczynski, Nathan McDermott, & Em Steck: New HHS spokesman made racist comments about Chinese people in now-deleted tweets.
April 23. Lolly Bowean: For journalists of color, tracking by race during COVID-19 is about equity.
April 23. Elise A. Mitchell: “If bitterness were a whetstone”: On Grief, History, and COVID-19.
April 24. Marina Fang: Advocates Collect Nearly 1,500 Reports Of Anti-Asian Racism In The U.S. Over The Past Month.
April 24. Josh Dawsey & Nick Miroff: Stephen Miller has long-term vision for Trump’s ‘temporary’ immigration order.
April 24. Rebecca Nagle: Native Americans being left out of US coronavirus data and labeled as ‘other’.
April 24. Kara Voght: “You’re Just Screwed”: Why Black-Owned Businesses Are Struggling to Get Coronavirus Relief Loans.
April 30. Natalie Kitroeff: As Workers Fall Ill, U.S. Presses Mexico to Keep American-Owned Plants Open. Multinational corporations with factories in Mexico have remained open, even after coronavirus outbreaks hit their facilities.
May. Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine: Historical Perspectives On Contemporary Issues: Perspectives on the COVID-19 Pandemic. (See especially discussions with Kathryn Olivarius and Natalia Molina.)
May 1. Colin Gordon, Walter Johnson, Jason Q. Purnell, Jamala Rogers: COVID-19 and the Color Line.
May 1. Mae Anderson, Alexandra Olson, & Angeliki Kastanis: Women, minorities shoulder front-line work during pandemic.
May 1. Alicia Garza: We Asked 30,000 Black Americans What They Need to Survive. Here’s What They Said.
May 1. Christina Farhart, Matt Motta, & Dominik Stecula: How Right-Leaning Media Coverage of COVID-19 Facilitated the Spread of Misinformation in the Early Stages of the Pandemic in the U.S.
May 4. Heather Ann Thompson: The policy mistakes from the 1990s that have made covid-19 worse: Being tough on crime and cutting benefits from the poor left millions more susceptible to disease.
May 4. Lydia Chávez & Julian Mark: Preliminary results of Mission COVID tests show 95 percent of positive cases were Latinx.
May 5. Erik Ortiz: Native American health center asked for COVID-19 supplies. It got body bags instead.
May 5. Julian Shen-Berro: NYC man tried to forcibly remove Asian nurse from subway, cops say: “Hey Chinaman, you’re infected,” the man reportedly said before threatening to physically harm the nurse.
May 5. The Brian Lehrer Show: interview with historian Peniel Joseph: How Is This Pandemic a Civil Rights ‘Reckoning’?
May 6. Code Switch (podcast): What Does ‘Hood Feminism’ Mean For A Pandemic?
May 8. Benjamin Hardy & Joshua Kaplan: Early Data Shows Black People Are Being Disproportionally Arrested for Social Distancing Violations: Crowds of mostly white protesters have defied Ohio’s stay-at-home order without arrest, while in several of the state’s biggest jurisdictions, police departments have primarily arrested black people for violating the order.
May 10. Audra D. S. Burch & John Eligon: Questions of Bias in Covid-19 Treatment Add to the Mourning for Black Families: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have advised health professionals to be on the lookout for medical bias.
May 11. Elizabeth Hoover: Native food systems impacted by COVID.
May 11. Christina Capatides: Doctors Without Borders dispatches team to the Navajo Nation.
May 11. Marjorie Childress: Native Americans make up 50% of COVID-19 deaths in New Mexico.
May 12. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor: Cancel the Rent.
May 12. Anthony N. Morgan: Why we need a culturally responsive — not a colourblind — approach to COVID-19. Anthony N. Morgan, one of Canada’s leading racial justice lawyers, on how to achieve social reform in the face of COVID-19.
May 13. Code Switch (podcast): Ask Code Switch: The Coronavirus Edition.
May 14. Nina Lakhani: South Dakota governor threatens to sue over Sioux’s coronavirus roadblocks: Two Native American tribes are restricting entry to their territory to prevent a major outbreak but Republican Kristi Noem objects.
May 14. Evan Lieberman: Risk for “Us,” or for “Them”? The Comparative Politics of Diversity and Responses to AIDS and Covid-19.
May 14. Gabriella Onikoro-Arkell: Confinement and Disease from Slavery to the COVID-19 Pandemic.
May 14. Lizzie Wade: From Black Death to fatal flu, past pandemics show why people on the margins suffer most.
May 14. Adia Harvey Wingfield: The Disproportionate Impact of Covid-19 on Black Health Care Workers in the U.S.
May 15. Brandi T. Summers: What Black America Knows About Quarantine: White people are protesting against being trapped at home. Black people know what it feels like to really be trapped.
May 16. Kim Bellware & Hannah Knowles: Fear sent her Chinatown restaurant spiraling. The challenges to reopening feel ‘just impossible.’
May 16. Yessenia Funes: ‘I’m Scared’: Study Links Cancer Alley Air Pollution to Higher Death Rates From Covid-19.
May 16. Nick Graetz: Racial Capitalism and the COVID-19 Crisis.
March 16. Ezelle Sanford III: Hospital Shortage? Segregated Medicine has Something to do with It.
May 18. Lindsey Rogers Cook & Michael Schwirtz: These N.Y.C. Neighborhoods Have the Highest Rates of Virus Deaths: Race and income are the key factors that decide who dies from Covid-19 and who survives, city data shows.
May 18. Indian Country Today: Our graphs show it: COVID-19 is deeply and disproportionately impacting Indigenous communities.
May 19. Anti Defamation League: Reports of Anti-Asian Assaults, Harassment and Hate Crimes Rise as Coronavirus Spreads.
May 19. N. Jamiyla Chisholm: Black and Latinx New Yorkers Are Dying From COVID-19 at Twice the Rate of Whites.
May 19. Joe Brizzolara and Chelsea Kirk: Before ‘Chinese Virus,’ There Was ‘Mexican Disease’ in L.A.: Remembering the Burning of the City’s ‘Mexican Village’ in 1924.
May 19. Tracy Jan: Asian American doctors and nurses are fighting racism and the coronavirus: Across the country, Asian Americans have reported a sharp increase in verbal abuse and physical attacks.
May 19. Interview with historian of Asian America Ericka Lee, Bo Thao-Urabe, executive director of the Coalition of Asian American Leaders, and others: How to be an ally for Asian Americans facing racism amid COVID-19.
May 20. Armand Gutierrez: Commentary: In the age of coronavirus, Asian Americans face two threats — the virus and discrimination.
May 20. Ed Pilkington: Black Americans dying of Covid-19 at three times the rate of white people: New figures from non-partisan APM Research Lab show staggering racial divide in coronavirus death rate across US.
May 21. Lois Beckett: ‘All the psychoses of US history’: how America is victim-blaming the coronavirus dead.
May 21. Afua Hirsch: Why are Africa’s coronavirus successes being overlooked?
May 21. Michele L. Norris: The ‘us and them’ pandemic shows America is still impervious to black pain.
May 22. Deborah Roberts & Jon Schlosberg: Anonymous African American donors step up to tackle food insecurity during COVID-19 pandemic.
May 22. Yeganeh Torbati & Derek Willis: The Feds Gave a Former White House Official $3 Million to Supply Masks to Navajo Hospitals. Some May Not Work. Zach Fuentes, former deputy chief of staff to President Trump, won the contract just days after registering his company. He sold Chinese masks to the government just as federal regulators were scrutinizing foreign-made equipment.
May 22. Kendall Karson & Quinn Scanlan: Black Americans and Latinos nearly 3 times as likely to know someone who died of COVID-19.
May 22. Mollie Belt: African American educators are impacted dramatically by COVID-19 and districts need to address it.
May 22. Ana Sandoiu: ‘A no-win situation’ — Expert weighs in on COVID-19 racial disparities.
May 22. Dax-Devlon Ross: ‘Inundated and overwhelmed’: black undertakers struggle amid pandemic: Black-owned funeral homes were already in decline. Can they survive Covid-19?
May 22. Reverend William Barber: Essential or Expendable? Rev. William Barber on Poverty and the Political Response to COVID-19.
May 25. Gwen Aviles: The coronavirus is threatening diversity in academia: Colleges are laying off their adjunct faculty, which mostly consists of women and people of color.
May 25. Ed Pilkington. ‘Turn back this wave of hate’: 100 writers call for an end to anti-Asian hostility. Reports of hate crimes and violence against the Asian and Asian American community have surged since early in the pandemic.
May 25. Adam Gabbatt: Latino workers face discrimination over spread of coronavirus in meat plants: Reports of Latinos being refused service after more than 10,000 meatpacking workers, many Latino, contract Covid-19 in the US.
May 26. Nina Lakhani. Why Native Americans took Covid-19 seriously: ‘It’s our reality’.
May 29. Kriston Capps: What Happens When the Eviction Bans End?
May 30. Nicholas Kristof: The top U.S. Coronavirus Hotspots are all Indian Lands.
June 1. Stephanie Malin, Joshua Sbicca, & Lindsey Schneider: Native American tribes’ pandemic response is hamstrung by many inequities.
June 4. Rob Stein: Race, Ethnicity Data To Be Required With Coronavirus Tests In U.S.
June 4. Heather Long & Andrew Van Dam: The black-white economic divide is as wide as it was in 1968: 14 charts show how deep the economic gap is and how little it has changed in decades. The covid-19 recession is also hitting black families and business owners far harder than whites.
June 4. John Gramlich & Cary Funk: Black Americans face higher COVID-19 risks, are more hesitant to trust medical scientists, get vaccinated.
June 5. The Associated Press: Study: Black Americans most interested in COVID-19 news.
June 5. Taylor Avery & Margot Roosevelt. There’s a black jobs crisis. Coronavirus is making it worse.
June 5. Lisa A. Cooper, Lakshmi Krishnan, & S. Michelle Ogunwole: Historical Insights on Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), the 1918 Influenza Pandemic, and Racial Disparities: Illuminating a Path Forward.
June 10. C. Brandon Ogbunu: The Pandemic and the Protests Are Mirror Images: The debate over Covid-19 and the uprisings against police brutality share perilous pasts and uncertain futures. Together, they can teach us where to go next.
June 12. Katy O’Donnell: Black community braces for next threat: Mass evictions. A federal moratorium on evictions — which only applies to the 1 in 4 rental units that are backed by the government — expires in a matter of weeks.
June 12. Steven W. Thrasher: An Uprising Comes From the Viral Underclass: And the Black Lives Matter movement could be the vaccine the country needs.
June 15. Antoine S. Johnson: From HIV-AIDS to COVID-19: Black Vulnerability and Medical Uncertainty.
June 24. Charles M. Blow: Can We Call Trump a Killer? There is no way to remove his culpability in the neglectful handling of the coronavirus.
June 25. Christopher Ingraham: New research explores how conservative media misinformation may have intensified the severity of the pandemic: The three studies paint a picture of a media ecosystem that entertains conspiracy theories and discourages audiences from taking steps to protect themselves and others.
June 25. Lisa Levenstein: With schools and daycare closed, the coronavirus is worsening women’s inequality: The pandemic has left women especially vulnerable and the lack of child care may erode decades of progress.
June 25. David Helps: Covid-19 outbreaks at jails and prisons should make us rethink incarceration: The case for reducing the number of people in jail.
June 27. Daniella Cheslow: Black Doctors Say Pandemic Reveals Enduring Racial Inequity Medicine Alone Cannot Fix.
June 27. Rong-Gong Lin II: California Latino, Black residents hit even harder by coronavirus as white people see less danger.
July 1. Morning Edition: Why COVID-19 Disproportionately Impacts Latino Communities.
July 5. Anh Do: ‘You started the corona!’ As anti-Asian hate incidents explode, climbing past 800, activists push for aid.
July 13. Alyssa Ribeiro: Lessons for sustaining black businesses after a crisis: Private coalitions alone aren’t enough to address racial wealth gaps.
July 13. Elizabeth Wrigley-Field: US racial inequality may be as deadly as COVID-19.
July 15. Rogelio Sáenz: The COVID-19 Rising Toll on Latinos: A Look at the Beginning of July 2020.
July 21. Michael Ness & Stephen Wilson: In the Dark: COVID-19 has Illustrated the Stakes of a Lack of Access to Information in Prisons.
July 21. Tiffany Wong: Little noticed, Filipino Americans are dying of COVID-19 at an alarming rate.
July 22. Akemi Tamanaha: UCLA Report Shows Major Effects of COVID-19 on Asian American Work Force.
July 22 – Jacob Reems: Covid-19 in a Border Nation.
July 23. Valerie Strauss: The racist effects of school reopening during the pandemic — by a teacher.
July 26. Carolyn Y. Johnson: A trial for coronavirus vaccine researchers: Making sure black and Hispanic communities are included in studies.
July 28. NPR: Navajo Nation Sees Farming Renaissance During Coronavirus Pandemic.
July 31. Caitlin Yoshiko Kandil & Kimmy Yam: Asian Americans face dual challenges: Surging unemployment and racism. “This is why racializing COVID-19 as ‘the China virus’ has profound societal repercussions,” one researcher said.
August 5. Amy Moran-Thomas: How a Popular Medical Device Encodes Racial Bias: Pulse oximeters give biased results for people with darker skin. The consequences could be serious.
August 7. Erick Galindo: Mis Ángeles: They Raised $1 Million in COVID-19 Relief To Help LA’s Indigenous Communities. Here’s Why It’s Not Nearly Enough.
August 7. Alejandra Rajal: Mexican families mourn workers claimed by Covid in the US – photo essay.
August 11. Andrew Curley: Contested water settlements inflamed the Navajo Nation’s health crisis: Colonial laws and federal neglect created a worse-case scenario during a global pandemic.
August 13. Jewel Wicker: How the pandemic will affect Black Women’s Equal Pay Day for years to come: Today is Black Women’s Equal Pay Day. Here’s how the recession will affect the pay gap even further.
August 15. Eli Saslow: ‘May rent. June rent. Late fees. Penalties.’ Tusdae Barr, on being evicted from her home during the coronavirus crisis.
August 19. Emma K. Atwood & Sarah Williamson: Plague and Protest Go Hand in Hand: Scholars of early modern England have shown how plague and protest are often correlated. The Black Death of 1348 laid the groundwork for the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381, for example.
August 21. Mae Ngai: Who Is “Essential”? US Immigration Policy in Historical Context.
August 21. The Marshall Project. COVID-19’s Toll on People of Color Is Worse Than We Knew: New data shows deaths from all causes—COVID and otherwise—have gone up 9 percent among White Americans, but more than 30 percent in communities of color.
August 23. Vivian Ho: ‘An impossible choice’: farmworkers pick a paycheck over health despite smoke-filled air.
August 24. Kiese Makeba Laymon: Mississippi: A Poem, in Days. The author, on book tour when the pandemic set in, reflects on what could have been worse—and what could be better.
August 28. Kalen Goodluck: The Navajo Nation and White Mountain Apache Tribe chase down a virus: Contact-tracing programs in two areas hit hardest by COVID-19 are working.
August 29. Matthew Desmond: The Rent Eats First, Even During a Pandemic: Threatening to turn families out of their homes during the coronavirus fight isn’t just morally suspect; it’s dangerous.
September 1. Jesmyn Ward: On Witness and Respair: A Personal Tragedy Followed by Pandemic. The acclaimed novelist lost her beloved husband—the father of her children—as COVID-19 swept across the country. She writes through their story, and her grief.
September 2. E. James West: African American newspapers are a vital source of public health information: But covid-19 could kill them.
September 4. Brandi Jackson & Aderonke B. Pederson: Facing both covid-19 and racism, Black women are carrying a particularly heavy burden.
September 9. NPR: Economic Pain From Pandemic Is Much Worse Than Expected, NPR Poll Finds.
September 11. NPR: How The Pandemic Has Affected The Latino Community In L.A.
September 15. William Wan: Coronavirus kills far more Hispanic and Black children than White youths, CDC study finds: More than 75 percent of children dying from covid-19 are minorities, a finding that echoes disproportionate death rates among adults.
September 16. George Aumoithe: The racist history that explains why some communities don’t have enough ICU beds: Our struggles with covid-19 stem from decades of policy choices.
September 18. NPR: COVID-19 May Have A More Serious Impact On Formerly Redlined Communities.
September 18. David Segal: Housekeepers Face a Disaster Generations in the Making: Ghosted by their employers, members of the profession are facing “a full-blown humanitarian crisis — a Depression-level situation.”
Sepetmebr 21. NPR: Remembering People Of Color Lost To COVID-19.
September 22. Arelis R. Hernández: ‘It’s just too much to handle’: In Texas, the burden of coronavirus on Latinos is diverse, with an impact that is almost certainly underestimated.
September 23. NPR: Black, Latino Households Struggle To Pay Rent, Mortgages.
September 25. NPR: Group Of Black Doctors Want To Vet Any New COVID-19 Vaccines.
October 1. NPR: ‘Overlooked’: Asian American Jobless Rate Surges But Few Take Notice.
October 6. NPR: To Tackle Racial Disparities In COVID-19, California Enacts New Metric For Reopening.
October 13. Khadhazha Welch: Pandemic Deepens Food Inequality in Brooklyn.
October 16. NPR: Poverty Levels In Minority Communities On The Rise.
October 28. Melinda D. Anderson: ‘You’re Out of Your Mind if You Think I’m Ever Going Back to School’: When learning is virtual, Black parents can watch for unfair treatment.
November 1. NPR: Coronavirus Adds To Voting Challenges For Native American Community.
November 2. NPR: LA Latinos Mark El Día De Los Muertos In ‘A Nightmare Year’ Of Loss.
November 17. NPR: Lack Of Communication Between States And Native Tribes Hinders Contact Tracing.
November 17: Yarimar Bonilla. Pandemic Déjà Vu. The COVID-19 global pandemic has been described as an unprecedented global event. Yet for some, the virus arrives with uncanny familiarity.
November 19. Julie Livingston: To Heal the Body, Heal the Body Politic.
November 19. Maria Godoy: In U.S. Cities, The Health Effects Of Past Housing Discrimination Are Plain To See.
November 20. Natalia Molina: The Enduring Disposability of Latinx Workers: When employers fail to provide PPE, testing, sick pay, or job protection, the message is clear: Latinx laborers are “not us.”
November 23. Ariana Eunjung Cha, Gabriel Florit, & Dan Keating: ‘I just pray God will help me’: Racial, ethnic minorities reel from higher covid-19 death rates: A Post analysis shows that communities of color continue to die from the coronavirus at much higher rates than Whites.
November 23. William Wan: Coronavirus vaccines face trust gap in Black and Latino communities, study finds.
November 24. NPR: ANA President On Why People Of Color Should Be Involved In Vaccine Trials.
November 25: Quentin Ravelli: COVID Blindness: Withholding accurate information obscures both the impact of the pandemic on the most vulnerable and the resurgence of institutional violence.
November 26. Camilo José Vergara: Picturing the Lost: In segregated neighborhoods throughout New York, memorials to those claimed by COVID-19 have appeared and evolved.
November 27. Eric Klinenberg: Rebuilding Solidarity in a Broken World.
November 27. Adam Tooze: Global Inequality and the Corona Shock.
December 1. Pamela Ballinger: The struggle to document covid-19 for future generations: How to avoid mistakes as we commemorate the vast suffering of today.
December 2. Vivian Ho: Covid and California’s farmworkers: study lays bare disproportionate risks. Primarily Latino workforce has contracted Covid-19 at nearly three times the rate of other residents.
December 9. Gina Kolata: Social Inequities Explain Racial Gaps in Pandemic, Studies Find: Higher rates of infection and mortality among Black and Hispanic Americans are explained by exposure on the job and at home, experts said.
December 10. NPR: New Studies Show The Pandemic Highlights Inequality In U.S. Education System.
December 15. Dan Royles: Years of medical abuse make Black Americans less likely to trust the coronavirus vaccine: Reckoning with our past is crucial to getting buy-in for the vaccine.
December 15. NPR: Why Many Latinos Are Wary Of Getting The COVID-19 Vaccine.
December 19. NPR: Fighting COVID-19 Vaccine Mistrust In The Black Community.
December 20. NPR: Race And The Roots Of Vaccine Skepticism.
December 21. Chabeli Carrazana, Ko Bragg: Americans were told to stay home. Black women are most at risk of losing theirs. Despite federal eviction moratoriums, Black women are most at risk of losing their housing during the pandemic.
December 22. Akilah Johnson and Nina Martin: How COVID-19 Hollowed Out a Generation of Young Black Men.
December 24. Nolan D. McCaskill & Shia Kapos: Census armies pivot to vaccine outreach with minorities.
December 24. Fenit Nirappil: A Black doctor alleged racist treatment before dying of covid-19: ‘This is how Black people get killed’. In a Facebook video, Susan Moore says the response to her request for pain medication made her ‘feel like a drug addict.’
December 29. NPR: Outreach Teams Help Miami’s Communities Of Color Find COVID-19 Testing.
December 30. NPR: Health Equity Advocate On Black Doctor’s Video Of Her Treatment For COVID-19.
December 31. David Kroman: Revered doctor steps down, accusing Seattle Children’s Hospital of racism.
December 31. Chris Serres: Our People Are Scared: As deaths mount, Standing Rock Sioux Tribe charts its own path fighting COVID-19.
2021
January 1. NPR: Black Doctors Use Social Media To Share Accurate Information About COVID-19 Vaccine.
January 6. The Guardian: The data is in. People of color are punished more harshly for Covid violations in the US.
January 10. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor: Black America Has Reason to Question Authorities.
January 12. Jack Healy: Tribal Elders Are Dying From the Pandemic, Causing a Cultural Crisis for American Indians.
January 14. Rong-Gong Lin II & Luke Money: Deaths among Latinos in L.A. County from COVID-19 rising at astonishing levels.
January 15. Luca Powell: ‘It’s Starting Again’: Why Filipino Nurses Dread the Second Wave. Indispensable to New York City hospitals, health care workers from the Philippines died in shocking numbers last spring. Will things be different this winter?
January 18. Federico Finchelstein & Jason Stanley: A COVID Genocide in the Americas?
January 18. NPR: Coronavirus Victims: Keeper Of Hmong Culture Pang Xiong Sirirathasuk Sikoun.
January 19. NPR: ‘You Can’t Treat If You Can’t Empathize’: Black Doctors Tackle Vaccine Hesitancy.
January 21. NPR: ‘The Separate and Unequal Health System’ Highlighted By COVID-19.
January 25. Allison Salerno: Here’s Why the People Who Pick Our Food Are Going Hungry During Covid: Historic discrimination has left farmworkers with fewer protections than other workers, a practice known as agricultural exceptionalism.
February 1. NPR: Many Latinos Are Hesitant To Get A COVID-19 Vaccine.
February 4. Nina Lakhani: Exclusive: indigenous Americans dying from Covid at twice the rate of white Americans.
February 4. NPR: Should Calif. Farmworkers Be Next In Line To Get COVID-19 Vaccine?
February 5. NPR: Rep. Ruiz: Vaccinating Food And Farm Workers Requires An ‘Active, Concerted Effort’.
February 5. NPR: Chair Of The Congressional Hispanic Caucus On Distributing Vaccines Equitably.
February 5. NPR: Across The South COVID-19 Vaccine Sites Missing From Black And Hispanic Neighborhoods.
February 6. NPR: Few COVID Vaccination Clinics Are Placed In Hardest-Hit Communities.
February 8. Bettina Makalintal: Asian Americans Are Calling on Allies in Response to a Wave of Violence: Three recent attacks of senior citizens show the continued rise of anti-Asian racism during the COVID-19 pandemic.
February 10. NPR: Unpacking The Surge In Violence Against Asian Americans.
February 11. NPR: New Surge Of Violent Attacks Against Asian Americans In Bay Area.
February 12. Michelle Wiley: 700 Anti-Asian Hate Incidents Reported in Bay Area During Pandemic – True Figures Might Be Even Worse.
February 14. NPR: As California Expands Vaccination, Some Worry Farm Workers Will Lose Out.
February 15. NPR: New York’s Chinatown Sees Economic Challenges, 1 Year Into The COVID-19 Pandemic.
February 16. NPR: In Tuskegee, Painful History Shadows Efforts To Vaccinate African Americans.
February 18. Mina Kim & Michelle Wiley: ‘Tip of the Iceberg’: How Effects of Anti-Asian Attacks Run Deep.
February 19. Oni Blackstock & Uché Blackstock: Black Americans should face lower age cutoffs to qualify for a vaccine.
February 19. NPR: Why Native Americans Are Getting COVID-19 Vaccines Faster.
February 22. Eric Spillman: Vaccine access codes intended for Black, Latino communities being misused by wealthier L.A. areas.
February 23. NPR: Race Versus Time: Targeting Vaccine To The Most Vulnerable Is No Speedy Task.
February 24. Video by Alexander Stockton and Lucy King: Death, Through a Nurse’s Eyes: A short film offering a firsthand perspective of the brutality of the pandemic inside a Covid-19 I.C.U.
February 24. Code Switch: A Shot in the Dark.
February 25. Margaret Newkirk: A Black Neighborhood in Alabama Has Yet to Get a Single Vaccine: In a nearby wealthy White suburb, the doses flow.
March issue, Smithsonian Magazine: How Navajo Physicians Are Battling the Covid-19 Pandemic: Combining traditional medicine and modern science, these courageous doctors have risen to the challenge.
March 1. NPR: To Help Farmworkers Get COVID-19 Tests And Vaccine, Build Trust And A Safety Net.
March 3. NPR: Drug Overdose Deaths Surge Among Black Americans During Pandemic.
March 4. NPR: Vaccine Disparity Hits Home For Many Foreign-Born Doctors.
March 6: Andrew Jacobs: ‘At Your Age, It’s the Vaccine or the Grave’: A nurse in Baton Rouge has been on a crusade to overcome resistance among older African-Americans unwilling to take the coronavirus vaccine.
March 7. NPR: Stories Shed Light On Recent Attacks On Asian Americans.
March 7. NPR: Misinformation And Mistrust Among The Obstacles Latinos Face In Getting Vaccinated.
March 10. NPR: Racism In Medicine Casts A Pall Over COVID-19 Vaccinations.
March 11. NPR: Asian Americans Experience ‘Far More’ Hate Incidents Than Numbers Indicate.
March 11. NPR: ‘We Don’t Have The Luxury To Fall Apart’: Black Businesses Get Creative To Survive.
March 17. The Washington Post: Asian Americans see shooting as a culmination of a year of racism.
March 18. NPR: Hit Hard By Pandemic, Farmworkers Receive COVID-19 Vaccines.
March 18. NPR: What Statistics Tell Us About Anti-Asian Bias Crimes.
March 18. NPR: The Racial Disparities, Systemic Racism Behind Who Has Received Vaccines.
March 20. NPR: More Black And Latinx Americans Are Embracing COVID-19 Vaccination.
March 20. NPR: ‘Soul Of The City’ Black-Owned Food Establishments Struggle In Nation’s Capital.
March 21. NPR: The Long History Of Sexual And Physical Violence Asian Women Face In The U.S.
March 22. NPR: Activists Say Anti-Asian Attacks Go Unreported Due To Stereotypes, Language Barriers.
March 24. NPR: Mass Shootings Rose In The Pandemic, Disproportionately Hurting Black Neighborhoods.
March 26. KQED: Fueled by Volunteers, ‘Japantown Prepared’ Strives to Keep San Jose’s Asian Seniors Safe.
March 27. NPR: Indigenous-Language Radio Show In Oakland Promotes Vaccine Effort.
March 29. NPR: The Blackfeet Reservation Is Reopening Its Roads After Vaccination Success.
March 30. KQED: California’s Working-Age Latinos Are Disproportionately Dying of COVID-19.
March 30: NPR: Racial Equity In Vaccination? Dialysis Centers Can Help With That.
March 31. NPR: COVID-19 Was 3rd-Leading Cause Of Death In 2020, People Of Color Hit Hardest.
April 1. NPR: Native Americans Living In Urban Areas Search For COVID-19 Vaccines.
April 6. NPR: African Immigrant Health Groups Battle Trans-Atlantic Tide Of Vaccine Disinformation.
April 6. NPR: Biden Economist Plans To Tackle Economic Disparities Caused By COVID-19.
April 8. CBS News: Black women 3 times more likely to die from COVID-19 than White men.
April 8. NPR: ‘Lost On The Front Line’: Tracks Health Workers Who Died Of COVID-19.
April 9. NPR: The CDC Says Racism Is A Public Health Threat. Here’s What It Means.
April 10. NPR: Study Shows Pandemic Tied To Spike In Suicide Among Black People.
April 10. NPR: Coronavirus Vaccine Distribution Reveals Global Public Health Inequities.
April 16. NPR: What The Johnson & Johnson Pause May Mean For Vaccine Equity.
April 16. NPR: Federally Unrecognized Tribes Haven’t Been Provided Resources To Vaccinate Members.
April 19. NPR: Philadelphia’s Imbalanced Vaccination Rates Fueled By Lack Of Access.
April 23. Paul Adler: Activism is the key to getting vaccines to the world: Patent protections are thwarting global vaccination efforts. Here’s how to break through.
April 23. NPR: The Pandemic Imperiled Non-English Speakers In A Hospital.
April 26. NPR: Why Black And Latino People Still Lag On COVID Vaccines — And How To Fix It.
April 26. NPR: Outpacing The U.S., Hard-Hit Navajo Nation Has Vaccinated More Than Half Of Adults.
April 26. Mark Kreidler: Why California’s Undocumented Immigrants Remain Vaccine-Resistant: Some workers fear revealing their undocumented status at vaccination sites. It takes the spread of only a few stories to stoke those fears.
April 27. Alice Driver: Their Lives on the Line: The meatpacking industry lobbied Trump to declare its workers “essential,” to keep up production in the pandemic. Unless they got sick—then they were expendable.
April 27. NPR: ‘It Taps Into A Lot Of Trauma’: Local Indigenous People Say Vaccines Came Too Late.
April 29. The Associated Press: Black and Latino Covid-related nursing home deaths linked to overcrowding: A high percentage of Covid-related deaths at Illinois nursing homes were linked to facilities that had more residents sharing a room.
April 29. Kim Bojórquez: Did US Census undercount Latinos? Here’s how California found hard-to-reach residents.
May 1. Prachi Gupta: Indian Americans Don’t Know What to Feel Right Now: The pandemic is ravaging India at the same moment that it is relenting in the United States.
May 2. Ibram X. Kendi: We Still Don’t Know Who the Coronavirus’s Victims Were: One year into a racial pandemic within a viral one, the gaps in our collective knowledge are still startling.
May 30. NPR: Black Entrepreneurship Booms During Pandemic.
May 31. NPR: Corporate Landlord Evicts Blacks At Higher Rates Than Whites, Research Shows.
June 6. NPR: How Virginia Improved Vaccination Rates Among Latinx Residents.
June 8. Howard Blume & Laura Newberry: Some Black parents see less bullying, racism with online learning and are keeping kids home.
June 8. NPR: An Anti-Vaccine Film Targeted To Black Americans Spreads False Information.
June 11. Dareh Gregorian: Judge orders temporary halt to $4B federal loan relief program for farmers of color.
June 14. Roni Caryn Rabin: How the Virus Unraveled Hispanic American Families: Deaths in Santa Clara County, Calif., highlight a terrible disparity of the pandemic: Covid-19 killed many Hispanic Americans at younger ages.
June 22. NPR: Blackfeet Nation Welcomes Back Tourists After Risky Shutdown Pays Off.
July 6. NPR: Health Promoters Help Latinos Get Vaccinated Against COVID-19.
July 23. NPR: Drastic Drop In Life Expectancy Is Far Steeper For Black And Latino Populations.
August 12. NPR: Black Church’s Street Team Encourages Residents To Get Vaccinated.
August 12. Joseph Goldstein and Matthew Sedacca: Why Only 28 Percent of Young Black New Yorkers Are Vaccinated: As the Delta variant courses through New York City, many young Black New Yorkers remain distrustful of the vaccine.
August 13. Chase Hunter: Shawnee language classes move online during COVID-19 pandemic.
August 13. NPR: COVID Cases Are Rising In ICE Facilities, Putting Detainees And The Public At Risk.
August 28. Ally Mauch: Coronavirus Is The Third Leading Cause of Death Among Black Americans, Report Says.
September 14. The Takeaway: Black Homebuyers Are Being Left Out of Pandemic Housing Boom.
September 10. NPR: Black Opioid Deaths Increase Faster Than Whites, Spurring Calls For Treatment Equity.
September 15. The Washington Post: The pandemic marks another grim milestone: 1 in 500 Americans have died of covid-19.
September 16. Julie Mazziotta: Black, Hispanic and American Indian Children Make Up 78 Percent of All Youth Coronavirus Deaths: While children are significantly less likely to die from COVID-19, minority children make up a disproportionate amount of fatalities.
September 22. NPR: Methamphetamine Deaths Soar, Hitting Black And Native Americans Especially Hard.
October 3. NPR: How the demographics of COVID-19 deaths has changed since vaccinations became available.
October 3. Rishika Dugyala & Beatrice Jin: Trauma and Trump make Asian American voters a more cohesive bloc, new poll reveals: Ahead of the 2022 midterms, the POLITICO/Morning Consult poll found that Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders are significantly more likely to be mobilized by a shared fear of violence and discrimination than before the pandemic.
October 7. NPR: COVID deaths leave thousands of U.S. kids grieving parents or primary caregivers.
October 18. NPR: Anti-Asian violence creates a void for non-Asian parents of Asian adoptees.
October 19. NPR: Black and Latino families are bearing the weight of the pandemic’s economic toll.
October 25. NPR: Puerto Rico is the most vaccinated place in the U.S.
October 29. NPR: American Indians and Alaska Natives are disproportionately affected by the pandemic.
November 22. Chloe Veltman: The Bay Area Art Scene Lost So Many in 2021, This Altar-Maker Could Barely Keep Up.
November 22. Gabrielle Lombard: “Immigrants in COVID America” project launches new research spotlight on vaccine accessibility. The spotlight focuses on the barriers to vaccine accessibility impacting immigrants and people of color in the U.S.
December 15. Gary Younge: What Covid taught us about racism – and what we need to do now.
December 17. Alexia Fernández Campbell: Black women are still dropping out of the workforce. Here’s why.
December 20. IntelBrief: IntelBrief: Concern Growing Over Violent Extremism Related to COVID-19 Lockdowns and Vaccines.
December 24. Lauren Aratani: Black Americans continue to see higher jobless rate despite market recovery.
December 28. NPR: Black-owned hospice seeks to bring greater ease in dying to Black families.
December 31. NPR: The Gulf South remains highly undervaccinated.
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January 9. NPR: Death rituals in Black communities have been altered or forgone in the pandemic.
January 19. Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins: Learning From Decades of Public Health Failure: A conversation with George Aumoithe on the history of disease prevention, the economic roots of the crisis American hospitals face, and why we need to do better.
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