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How Black immigrant Mainers are fighting COVID-19
S2020 E242 - 10m 56s
Despite low rates of COVID-19 infections, Maine has the largest racial disparity of infection rates in the country. Special Correspondent Kira Kay reports that Black immigrant Mainers have been disproportionately affected and that state aid needed to fight the virus has been slow to reach them. The story is part of our ongoing series, “Chasing The Dream: Poverty and Opportunity in America.”
100 years after 19th Amendment, work on equality remains
S2020 E242 - 5m 5s
This week it will be 100 years since the 19th Amendment was passed, giving women in America the hard-fought right to vote. With COVID-19 disproportionately affecting women, especially women of color, progress on several fronts including wage equality has been lost. Amanda Zamora, a co-founder and publisher of The 19th, a digital newsroom dedicated to covering gender rights, joins to discuss.
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