Coronavirus: its impact cannot be explained away through the prism of race
There's no evidence COVID-19 death rates are related to the genetic differences used to racialise people.
Winston Morgan, Reader in Toxicology and Clinical Biochemistry, Director of Impact and Innovation, University of East London
• conversation
May 28, 2020 • ~8 min
May 28, 2020 • ~8 min
Tags: genetics covid-19 coronavirus race racism bame ethnic-minorities
Coronavirus: its impact cannot be explained through the prism of race
There's no evidence COVID-19 death rates are related to the genetic differences used to racialise people.
Winston Morgan, Reader in Toxicology and Clinical Biochemistry, Director of Impact and Innovation, University of East London
• conversation
May 28, 2020 • ~8 min
May 28, 2020 • ~8 min
Tags: genetics covid-19 coronavirus race racism bame ethnic-minorities
We are entering a recession – but what did we learn from the last one?
While the Great Depression reduced inequality and closed the racial wealth gap, the Great Recession of 2009 did the opposite.
Tags: finance inequality economy money united-states race wall-street great-depression recession great-recession wealth-gap racial-wealth-gap
7 lessons from 'Hidden Figures' NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson's life and career
NASA scientist Katherine Johnson was instrumental in getting people to the moon. Here are some of the lessons one mathematics professor believes she taught us all.
Della Dumbaugh, Professor of Mathematics, University of Richmond
• conversation
Feb. 26, 2020 • ~7 min
Feb. 26, 2020 • ~7 min
Tags: mathematics space feminism nasa science space-shuttle apollo-11 moon-landing race racism civil-rights segregation scientist hidden-figures katherine-johnson
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