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Tracy Jan, reporter for the Washington Post (bottom left), moderates the April 27 webinar “Racism in America: Economy” with Cornell faculty panelists, from top left, Lawrence Glickman, the Stephen and Evalyn Milman Professor of American Studies in the Department of History; Erica Groshen, senior economics advisor in the ILR Labor Dynamics Institute; Riché Richardson, associate professor of Africana studies; and Tejasvi Nagaraja, assistant professor of history in the ILR School.
Panel: Pandemic and protests laid economic injustices bare
April 29, 2021
As the COVID-19 pandemic and social justice protests rocked American society, Washington Post reporter Tracy Jan and her colleagues spent months reporting on systemic racism through the life of George Floyd, a Black man killed in police custody in May 2020.