It Will Take Years for People of Color to Recover From the Covid-19 Fallout

The pandemic lays bare structural inequities that need fixing across all aspect of American society

Robert Roy Britt
GEN
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10 min readAug 19, 2020

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A healthcare worker gives a Covid-19 test to a patient in the Covid-19 Unit at United Memorial Medical Center in Houston, Texas on July 2, 2020. Photo: Mark Felix/Getty Images

Kimora “Kimmie” Lynum was “the type of kid that would brighten your day,” her cousin, Dejeon Cain, told a local news outlet in Florida. “She loved her mom, dad, grandma…

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Robert Roy Britt
GEN
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