Anti-Racist Resource List (Haverford College)

Bearing Witness is an effort to document and interpret the events associated with the novel coronavirus epidemic in the United States as it pertains to racialized minorities.

As the US climbed to more than 10,000 coronavirus deaths on Monday state health officials grappled with its disproportionate impact on black Americans. The disparity is especially stark in cities like New Orleans, Chicago and Detroit, where high concentrations of African Americans live.

In Philadelphia, black patients are dying of coronavirus at a rate of 4.1 for every 10,000 people — more than 30% higher than the death rate among white patients, according to city data.

Racism, inequality, and the coronavirus have combined to cause an alarming number of COVID-19 cases and deaths among African-American and Latinx populations.

Some scientists and politicians have invoked baseless ideas about unknown genes, ignoring systemic inequality and oppression

Public health specialist and physician Camara Phyllis Jones talks about ways that jobs, communities and health care leave Black Americans more exposed and less protected