Black Americans Face Alarming Rates of Coronavirus Infection in Some States
Data on race and the coronavirus is too limited to draw sweeping conclusions, experts say, but disparate rates of sickness — and death — have emerged in some places. The…
Bubby Locked Her Memories Away. One Passover Released Them.
JERUSALEM — By the time I married into the family, Bubby Bella’s reticence was pronounced. A survivor of Nazi genocide, Bubby had resolutely overcome it, posturing under large-brimmed hats while…
‘That Is What We Do’: The Power of Passover and Tradition Across Generations
Jewish families on Wednesday will again recount the 10 plagues from the Book of Exodus. Only this year will be a little different. Religious ritual holds power not only because…
A Billion People Live in Slums. Can They Survive the Virus?
The most important factor in enabling the spread of pandemics in slums is the neglect of these marginalized populations by governing elites. Although the Covid-19 pandemic was spread around the…
The Pandemic’s Missing Data
On Tuesday, Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the nation’s leading expert on infectious diseases, acknowledged at a news conference that he expects black people will continue to die of the coronavirus at…
Coronavirus, a black plague: Early evidence is that the pandemic is hitting African Americans especially hard
There is an old saying that when white America catches a cold, African Americans catch pneumonia. Whether it was the Great Depression, Hurricane Katrina or the Great Recession, entrenched racial discrimination causes black communities…
Why black Americans are at higher risk for coronavirus
Black Americans have more existing medical issues, less access to health care, and are more likely to work in unstable jobs — all factors that have made the coronavirus pandemic…
NBC New York anchor says his father died from coronavirus ‘with a stranger holding his hand’
Kuperstein said his father, the son of Holocaust survivors, came to the United States with nothing and achieved so much. NBC New York anchor Adam Kuperstein announced in an emotional…
How a Chinese-American Novelist Wrote Herself Into the Wild West
C Pam Zhang’s debut, “How Much of These Hills Is Gold,” is one of several new or forthcoming books by Asian-American writers set in a period that historically hasn’t recognized…
Coronavirus wreaks havoc in African American neighborhoods
Stark statistics from Chicago health officials have underscored the heavy toll of coronavirus on black Americans. Black Chicagoans account for half of all coronavirus cases in the city and more…