Community leaders and health officials point to distrust, an incompetent early pandemic response and the predictable results of longstanding systemic inequities Black and Indigenous Oregonians have been infected, hospitalized and killed by COVID-19 at rat ...
26 Jan 2022 - Henry Brannan
The pandemic has illuminated long-standing inequities in the American health care system, and it will take a nation to fix them Structural racism in the U.S. seeps into many aspects of Black Americans’ lives. As we’re witnessing with the coronavirus pande ...
7 Jul 2020 - Rupal Ramesh Shah
The city's Healthy Business permit was intended to prioritize minority-owned restaurants and bars during COVID-19, but gentrification has made that difficult With a temporary permit from the city, more than 200 restaurants and bars in Portland are ex ...
1 Jul 2020 - Henry Latourett...
Dennis Parker at National Center for Law and Economic Justice tells Street Roots how the pandemic is highlighting existing inequities — and what can be done about it For the second time in less than two decades, the United States is facing a devastating e ...
14 May 2020 - Joanne Zuhl