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COVID-19
COVID-19 has disproportionately impacted Black, Indigenous and Immigrant communities as a result of racism, xenophobia and inequality. Support movements and organizations taking action to protect people of color during the pandemic
Black Lives Matter
Access resources and sign petitions
C19 Help Squad
A community of volunteers helping each other through peer-to-peer support through COVID
Tracking in real time how COVID is affecting people of color the most.
t : @COVID19Tracking
Know Your Rights Camp COVID Relief Fund
Learn about how COVID is impacting Black and Brown people. Donate to help provide PPE, relief to food and shelter insecurity, and support for those incarcerated
t : @yourrightscamp
ig : @yourrightscamp
Providing extensive resources for COVID youth justice advocacy (Team: Minority Black and Latinx)
The National Bail Fund Network
Donate to the COVID Rapid Response Fund
The Marshall Project
Covering the impact of COVID in prisons (Board and Editorial Board: Black Minority, Publishes annual diversity report here)
The Sentencing Project
Tracking COVID-19 cases amongst incarcerated youth
t : @SentencingProj
An event series of the AAPF that explores the intersectionality of the vulnerabilities that COVID lay bare
COVID resource for the immigrant community. Calling on full COVID testing independent of immigration status (Leadership Team: Predominantly Latinx)
Take Action
Call a governor to demand for COVID testing independent of immigration status
Contact your congressional representative through NAACP about securing voting systems that are COVID secure
Demand racial data on COVID
Explore current COVID and the criminal justice system reporting
Learn how COVID is impacting those incarcerated
Listen to Ask Code Switch: The Corona Virus Edition
Listen to The News Behind the COVID Numbers
Read about decolonizing parenting during COVID
Read about how race changed the urgency of the COVID response
Support the ACLU in protecting for mail-in voting and fighting vulnerable populations in prisons and immigration detention centers
Watch Black Women on the Politics of COVID
Read & Listen
As Coronavirus Spreads Through Prisons, We Must Release Those We Can, Kandist Mallett
As School Moves Online, Many Students Stay Logged Out, Nikole Hannah-Jones
Covid-19 Fueling Anti-Asian Racism and Xenophobia Worldwide, Human Rights Watch
Hate Groups and Racist Pundits Spew COVID-19 Misinformation, Hannah Gais (white author)
How the Coronavirus is Surfacing America’s Deep-Seated Anti-Asian Biases, Li Zhou
Let Our People Go, Michelle Alexander
For Families Already Stretched to the Limit, the Pandemic Is a Disaster, Nikole Hannah-Jones
We're finally recognizing the workers who have always been "essential", Recode Decode (podcast episode)
When Xenophobia Spreads Like A Virus, Code Switch (podcast episode)
Why the Coronavirus is Hitting Black Communities Hardest, Code Switch (podcast episode)
Why Is the Pandemic Killing So Many Black Americans?, The Daily (podcast episode)