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Race and the Pandemic
Peniel Joseph, professor of history and director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy at the University of Texas at Austin and the author of The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. (Basic Books, 2020) talks about his new book, plus the racial disparities in the impact of the coronavirus pandemic.