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Economic Relief and Equity
Heather McGhee, chair of Color of Change board of directors, former president of the liberal think tank Demos and the author of The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together (One World, 2021), talks about her new book and how the Biden COVID-19 relief bill would address issues of equity.