‘Track the Problem.’ Ibram X. Kendi on Using Data to Dismantle Structural Racism

 

“It’s not enough that every American has access to free healthcare … it must be high quality.”

In an interview with TIME, Ibram X. Kendi, award-winning author of How To Be An Antiracist and a Phil Lind Initiative speaker for our 2020 series Thinking While Black, outlines the relationship between healthcare and racism during the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as his findings from his spearheaded project, the COVID Racial Tracker, a joint project between the COVID Tracking Project and the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research.

 

Watch the full interview here.