Collected Item: “African Americans and COVID-19”
Give your story a title.
African Americans and COVID-19
What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?
Photograph; It was retrieved from an news article from The Guardian
Tell us a story; share your experience. Describe what the object or story you've uploaded says about the pandemic, and/or why what you've submitted is important to you.
The uploaded picture is African Americans waiting in line for distributions of food and mask in New York. It is just one of the many pictures and art forms describing the disproportions effects of COVID-19 on communities of color. It has been stated that people of color are becoming infected and dying of COVID-19 at high rates than those that are white. It is important to be made aware of this as it could be the result of systematic racism that is embedded in the access to healthcare and resources as well as the living conditions compared to white folks.
Use one-word hashtags (separated by commas) to describe your story. For example: Where did it originate? How does this object make you feel? How does this object relate to the pandemic?
#COVID-19, #healthcare #NewYork
Enter a URL associated with this object, if relevant.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/20/black-americans-death-rate-covid-19-coronavirus
Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)
Bebeto Mathews
Give this story a date.
2020-05-20