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When discrimination and a pandemic collide

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When discrimination and a pandemic collide

20 Apr 2020

Harvard Kennedy School Professor Cornell Brooks says America’s legacy of racial discrimination means communities of color are being hit hardest by the COVID-19 pandemic on everything from health to economics to political disenfranchisement.Brooks says historic systemic discrimination, lack of access to healthcare and healthy food, housing and employment disparities, and other issues have left communities of color uniquely vulnerable. Brooks also says the pandemic is also causing widespread disruption in the current election season, and that it has the potential to exacerbate the current trend toward minority disenfranchisement, both purposeful and unanticipated.
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Authors

Cornell Brooks, Thoko Moyo, Ralph Ranalli, Susan Hughes

Duration
30:41
Episode number
214
Published in
United States of America

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