Crisis Conversations: Anti-Blackness in America
Podcast
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June 9, 2020
The coronavirus pandemic is completely upending the way we work, live, connect with one another and what we expect from our government, communities and each other. It’s all happening so fast that stress levels and anxiety are sky high. That’s why the Better Life Lab is hosting a weekly interactive conversation for people to come together, share stories and begin to make sense of what’s unfolding and what it could mean for the future of gender equity, health, how we work and how we live.
Crisis Conversations–Live from Better Life Lab is hosted by Brigid Schulte and produced by David Schulman.
Since May 25, tumultuous protests have engulfed the country — touched off by the murder of George Floyd, another black man who died at the hands of a white police officer. And as protests have transfixed the nation, data continues to show the coronavirus pandemic also is disproportionately affecting communities of color, On this essential episode of Crisis Conversations, host Brigid Schulte asks: What needs to change to end our country's entrenched structural racism,? And how do we create a better, fairer America?
To take on these questions, Better Life Lab's Brigid Schulte is joined by:
- Angela Hanks, Deputy Executive Director of the Groundwork Collaborative, and author of Structural Racism is Exacerbating the Coronavirus Pandemic for Black People - Especially Black Women
- Autumn McDonald, Senior fellow and head of New America California. She has been hosting COVID and the Black Community online conversations
- Dr. Nicole Mason, President and CEO of the Institute for Women’s Policy Research
- Kemi Role, Director of Work Equity at the National Employment Law Project
To hear more of this episode including stories and questions from callers, click here. You can also find this episode wherever you listen to your podcasts. The video of the conversation is down below.