This is Democracy – Episode 96: Race and Coronavirus

Jeremi meets with Dr. Peniel Joseph to discuss the effects of the coronavirus pandemic on minority communities and how the virus exposes the racial disparities that society has yet to face. Zachary sets the scene with his poem, “Since ’65.” Peniel Joseph holds a joint professorship appointment at the LBJ School of Public Affairs and the History Department in the College of Liberal Arts and is Barbara Jordan Chair in Ethics and Political Values at the University of Texas at Austin. He is also the founding director of the LBJ School’s Center for the Study of Race and Democracy.