In my previous post in this series, I took a deep dive into Newark, New Jersey and the COVID-19 and poverty related challenges face by African-American and Latina women. This week we look at Baltimore, Maryland, “Charm City”, home of the Orioles and site of some of the worst environmental…

We read the death toll numbers, infection rates and hear politicians, academics and business leaders speak generally about disparate impacts. However, I questioned the extent to which any have looked deeply into BIPOC communities’ losses during COVID-19. …

This year was one of awakening for many of us. We realized that America is not built for all of us, never was and never will be unless we start the difficult process of rethinking this society. I think about redlining and the vestiges which still haunt urban communities via…

Just under a year ago, I wrote an article “The things we don’t say and the people we don’t see: Hurricane Dorian and the Bahamas as the weeks go on…” expressing my shock and sadness at the casual neglect of communities of color in post-disaster distress. I was reminded of…

COVID-19, Black Women and Why Equitable Recovery Matters By: Monica Sanders, J.D., LL.M Lecturer Georgetown University, Associate Professor, University of Delaware Among the many lessons coming from this pandemic, for frontline communities, social inequality is the most prevalent. Resilience or survivability to this event is tied to wealth, privilege and…