A Black-led COVID Recovery: Black leaders on their work tackling the dual crises of COVID and racism — and building a better world for all of us
Date: July 08, 2020
This roundtable connected the media to the Black leaders guiding us through COVID response and recovery while reimagining the Bay Area to protect people of color’s health. These leaders included youth organizing for Black Lives and defunding the police in Vallejo, teachers dismantling the school-to-prison pipeline, Black community development leaders working to stave off the next foreclosure crises in Richmond, bus drivers organizing to protect residents and essential workers, Black entrepreneurs trying to keep small businesses afloat during the state of emergency, and formerly incarcerated people fighting to eliminate discrimination against inmates released during COVID. Reporters joined to hear these untold stories.
Listen to all of the speakers at via San Francisco Public Press and read more in the business section of the San Francisco Chronicle: Oakland Group Keeps Focus on Black-Owned Business.
