How The Crisis Is Making Racial Inequality Worse
Among the bottom fifth of income earners, who are more likely to be black and Latino, about 35% of them lost their jobs.
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André Leon Talley Writes About Wintour, Lagerfeld In 'Chiffon Trenches'
Longtime Vogue editor André Leon Talley has a new memoir out called: The Chiffon Trenches. In it, he describes rifts with Vogue editor Anna Wintour and the late designer Karl Lagerfeld.
ProPublica Report On Chicago's Dramatic COVID-19 Health Disparities
NPR's Michel Martin speaks with ProPublica's Duaa Eldeib about her report, "The First 100," which looks at the reasons why 70 of the first 100 COVID-19 deaths in Chicago were African Americans.
Teaching Kids To Hide From Gunfire: Safety Drills At Day Care And At Home
Sheltering in place isn't new for children who live in neighborhoods plagued by gun violence, and shootings haven't eased during the pandemic. St. Louis families improvise to keep kids safe.
Biden Pulls Back On 'Cavalier' Remarks About Black Voters
In an at-times tense exchange on the radio show Breakfast Club, former Vice President Joe Biden said, "If you have a problem figuring out whether you're for me or Trump, then you ain't black."
Harvard Researchers Find 'Inequality On Top Of Inequality' In COVID-19 Deaths
By studying the number of all current deaths compared to those in previous years, researchers have found that high-poverty, crowded areas where people of color live have been hard hit by the pandemic.
'Brown Album' Centers On The Erasure Of Race In American Culture
Porochista Khakpour's work is strongest when she turns the lens on herself to examine how she, too, is complicit; many essays here are just too tantalizingly brief to allow space for deep analysis.
The Smithsonian Is Collecting Coronavirus 'Artifacts' To Document The Pandemic
As part of the effort, curators at the National Museum of African American History and Culture plan to collect objects that tell the stories of black Americans during the pandemic.
NFL Announces New Rules To Tackle Lack Of Diversity In Its Coaching, Executive Ranks
The NFL expanded the Rooney Rule on the same day teams were allowed to reopen practice facilities if area regulations allowed. Team facilities were shut in late March out of COVID-19 concerns.
In Virtual Speech To Black Graduates, Obama Says U.S. Lacks Leadership On Coronavirus
"This pandemic has fully, finally torn back the curtain on the idea that so many of the folks in charge know what they're doing," Obama told students from historically black colleges and universities.