The World Health Organization officially declared the coronavirus outbreak a pandemic. Host Alex Cohen shares how COVID-19 is affecting members of her family and life in Los Angeles. 

Later, Alex speaks with someone who paved an unknown road—Representative Yvonne Brathwaite Burke. In 1972, she became the first black woman from California elected to the House and the first member of congress to give birth. Rep. Burke joins the podcast with her daughter, Assemblymember Autumn Burke, who remembers seeing her mom's picture in her school textbook.

Lastly, producer Esther Lee gives her take on the coronavirus outbreak and a xenophobic encounter she had in Mexico.

 

IN THIS EPISODE

- Alex's Twitter handle: @alexcoheninla
- Washyourlyrics.com

 

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