Race and Coronavirus

This podcast features an interview with Kristin Urquiza, pictured here with her dad, Mark Anthony Urquiza, in 2016. Her dad died of COVID-19 last month, and her obituary for him — in which she blamed politicians for contributing to his death — went viral. And because this is our last podcast, we also talk about what we learned from this project, and our concerns for the future as this pandemic rages on.

For more on our conversation with Urquiza, plus a perspective about gun violence amid this pandemic, please read our last newsletter. Thanks for reading and listening.

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In this podcast, we interviewed Maria Lemus, executive director of Vision y Compromiso, an organization dedicated to the health and well-being of underrepresented people, especially by training promotores — who are liaisons trusted by the Latino community — and community health workers.

For more on our conversation with Lemus, plus a new campaign on behalf of essential workers, please read this week’s newsletter. Thanks for reading and listening.

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In this podcast, we interviewed Aimee Allison, founder of She the People, about the political impact of the coronavirus crisis. She the People is a national organization dedicated to boosting women of color in politics.

For more on our conversation with her, plus other political players, please read this week’s newsletter, which is all about politics. Thanks for reading and listening.

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In this podcast, we interviewed Dr. Elisha Smith Arrillaga and Cole Margen about the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on education. Smith Arrillaga is executive director of The Education Trust-West, and Margen is a history teacher at Oakland High School.

For more on our conversation with them, plus other teachers, students and parents, please read this week’s newsletter, which is all about education. Thanks for reading and listening.

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In this podcast, we interviewed Rashad Robinson, president of Color of Change, a national group that uses online activism to advocate for African Americans. We talked about technology and its role in the response to the COVID-19 crisis and to the widespread protests over racism.

For more on our conversation with Robinson, please read our story on technology, the coronavirus and race in this week’s newsletter. It also includes quotes from an Edward Snowden talk this week, plus updates on immigration news and anti-Asian sentiment. Thanks for reading and listening.

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In this podcast, we interviewed Luz Urrutia, Alicia Villanueva and Mikkoh Chen about how small businesses are dealing with the coronavirus crisis. Urrutia, left, is CEO of Opportunity Fund, a nonprofit microfinance organization. Villanueva, center, is owner of Alicia’s Tamales Los Mayas. Chen, right, is venture director for Gold Rush, an accelerator for Asian-led businesses.

For more on our conversation with Luz, Alicia and Mikkoh, please read our in-depth story on small businesses in this week’s newsletter, which includes a separate story about a Bay Area business accelerator’s COVID-19 initiative, #FilipinosFeedtheFrontlines. Thanks for reading and listening.

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In this podcast, we interviewed Dion Lim, news anchor and reporter at KGO-TV/ABC7 News in San Francisco, about covering racism and the COVID-19 crisis as an Asian American woman.

For more on our conversation with Lim, please read our story on media coverage of this pandemic in this week’s newsletter, which also includes a perspective on the importance of diversity in journalism and an update about former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick. Thanks for reading and listening.

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In this podcast, we interviewed Drs. Fatima Cody Stanford and David Carlisle about African American health and coronavirus, plus bias and racism. Stanford is a doctor at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, and Carlisle is president and CEO of Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science in South Los Angeles.

For more on our conversation with Drs. Stanford and Carlisle, please read our in-depth story on African American health in this week’s newsletter. Thanks for reading and listening.

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In this podcast, we interviewed Alida Garcia, vice president of advocacy at advocacy group FWD.us, about how the coronavirus crisis is affecting U.S. immigration policy and practices.

For more on our conversation with Garcia, please read our in-depth story on immigration in this week’s newsletter. Also, check out our Q&A with immigration activist Jose Antonio Vargas, plus our recommendation of a new podcast series called “Homeland Insecurity.” Thanks for reading and listening.

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This podcast includes two interviews, one with Congressman Ro Khanna and the other with gig workers Vanessa Bain and Jon Wong. In the first interview, U.S. Rep. Khanna, who represents parts of Santa Clara County and Alameda County, spoke with us about his Essential Workers Bill of Rights, which he introduced with Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts. In the second, Bain and Wong talked about their experiences working for delivery services Instacart and Caviar.

Please read our in-depth story about essential workers — which includes more from our conversations with Khanna, Bain and Wong, plus statistics and other voices who weighed in about essential work — in this week’s newsletter. (The newsletter and the podcast complement each other, but we’ve had to split them into two parts for technical reasons.) Thanks for reading and listening.

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