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RACIAL CAPITALISM AND THE COVID-19 CATASTROPHE

In the second Right to Health Web-In "Racial Capitalism and the COVID-19 Catastrophe,” we unpack what’s led to the appalling inequalities in COVID-19 outcomes across many social fault lines, but perhaps most glaringly along the lines of race in America.

MODERATED BY PRIYA FREMERMAN, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF GLOBEMED

We hear from the following academic and social movement leaders:

  • Dr. Mary Bassett - Director of FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard

  • Luz Zambrano - Coordinadora General, El Centro Cooperativo de Desarrollo y Solidaridad (CCDS) East Boston

  • Jaron Benjamin - VP Community Mobilization and National Advocacy, Housing Works

  • Professor Ruha Benjamin - Associate Professor of African American Studies, Princeton University

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