The devastating impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on African Americans cannot be understood without comprehending how anti-Blackness continues to shape the contours of their life chances. The legacy of connecting…
Introduction In early April 2020, the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene reported that Latinos—people of Latin American ancestry living in the United States—were the hardest hit…
On January 21, 2020, the first case of the novel coronavirus renamed COVID-19 was confirmed in the United States (ABCNews, n.d.). On February 26, 2020, the CDC confirmed the first…
The story of the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 among Asian New Yorkers highlights how much we still do not know about this population and why we need a comparative lens…
COVID-19’s arrival in the United States has made it impossible to ignore that Black Americans are disproportionately burdened by disease and death. Yet, there is still a lack of understanding…
Posted on December 9th, 2019 · Posted in Student Forum
Worldwide, there have been improvements and innovations in healthcare around the world which have led to a decline in the number of women dying from childbirth over the last 30…
Posted on December 9th, 2019 · Posted in Student Forum
There is a lack of disaggregated data on Asian poverty in New York City. Asians in poverty are hidden behind the veil of the “model minority” stereotype, which masks the…
Posted on December 2nd, 2019 · Posted in Student Forum
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo believes one of the pivotal social problems beseeching New York City is public transit fare evasion. With Mayor Bill de Blasio’s support, the city employed…
Posted on October 30th, 2019 · Posted in Student Forum
On August 3 2019, Patrick Crusius, a 21-year-old from Allen, Texas, drove roughly 11 hours across the state to El Paso, where he opened fired in a Walmart, killing 22…
After Barack Obama was elected as the first African American president in a historic election in 2008, several pundits asserted that the country was entering a post-racial era where race…