Why are Black Americans more likely to die from COVID-19?
Podcast |
The Current
Media Type |
audio
Podknife tags |
News & Politics
Publication Date |
Apr 16, 2020
Episode Duration |
00:13:54

In this episode, Rashawn Ray attributes the huge racial gap in coronavirus death rates to the over-representation of Black workers in essential jobs and the structural inequities that have long affected Black neighborhoods, and calls for policies to empower the disenfranchised people and places being hit hardest by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Full show notes and transcript: https://brook.gs/2VbVSAJ 

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