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theGrio Dear Culture podcast’s fifth episode, ‘Hell No, We Won’t Go…Outside’ explores the challenges Black people face in trusting the U.S. government.
— Read on thegrio.com/2020/05/01/why-should-black-business-owners-trust-governors-call-to-reopen-during-covid-19/amp/

COVID-19 and the Color Line from Boston Review. Black Americans are dying of COVID-19 at much higher rates than whites, and nowhere more so than in St. Louis. This is the result of racist policies which collapsed the social safety net while setting blacks in the path of danger.
— Read on bostonreview.net/race/colin-gordon-walter-johnson-jason-q-purnell-jamala-rogers-covid-19-and-color-line

From Ruth Glass to Spike Lee: 50 years of gentrification | Urbanisation | The Guardian
— Read on www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/cities/2014/feb/27/ruth-glass-spike-lee-gentrification-50-years

The term “gentrification” turned 50 in 2014. Originally coined to describe organic population shifts witnessed in London’s inner neighborhoods, it has come to encapsulate cultural trends, economic cycles and discrete public policies.
— Read on nextcity.org/gentrificationtimeline

Ruth Glass: Beyond ‘Gentrification’ | The New York Review of Books | Daily
— Read on www.nybooks.com/daily/2020/01/20/ruth-glass-beyond-gentrification/

How the marketing of blackness as a prized aesthetic often leaves the city’s Black residents behind.
— Read on nextcity.org/features/view/authenticity-and-post-chocolate-cool-in-rapidly-gentrifying-washington-dc

A high number of essential workers and long-standing health disparities make Prince George’s County, Md., especially vulnerable.
— Read on www.washingtonpost.com/local/prince-georges-maryland-coronavirus-health-disparities/2020/04/26/0f120788-82f9-11ea-ae26-989cfce1c7c7_story.html

The tech industry can play a pivotal role in shaping our post-pandemic world.
— Read on www.nytimes.com/2020/04/23/opinion/economy-coronavirus.html

Surgo Foundation is leveraging behavioral science, data science, and artificial intelligence to uncover new insights that policymakers, government officials, and the general public can incorporate into their response, from the national right down to the local level.
— Read on precisionforcovid.org/

News from Google.

Across the web, there are millions of datasets about nearly any subject that interests you. If you’re looking to buy a puppy, you could find…
— Read on www.datasciencecentral.com/profiles/blogs/finding-millions-of-datasets-with-new-google-search-feature