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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.

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MODERATED BY PRIYA FREMERMAN, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF GLOBEMED

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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

INTERESTING READS

Hospital Corridor

Stop Blaming Black People for Dying of the Coronavirus

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Earth

COVID-19: Reimagining the political economy of planetary health

BY RENZO GUINTO, MD

Business People Mingling

Society after Pandemic

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BY ALONDRA NELSON

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