COVID-19 has changed everything, halting life as we know it in its tracks.

To respond to this global pandemic and to adapt to this new way of life,

we're doing things a bit more DIY than usual.

We're not in the studio and we're dispersed all over the country, but we did want to respond to the urgent need for information,

bringing to you the voices of some of the leading experts to help us grapple with the new and not so new dimensions of this crisis.

It's in this vein that we're calling the series Under the Black Light to uncover the conditions

that pre-existed the virus and the cracks in our social structure that the virus can now exploit

to wreak maximum havoc. In the coming weeks, we'll be producing live conversations that

bring together artists, activists, thought

leaders, scholars, service providers, and others on the front lines of the fight against COVID-19.

Each Wednesday will bring you a virtual conversation over Zoom, which will then be released

as an episode of intersectionalitys in the following week.

In this part six of Under the Black Light, we take up the topic COVID in confinement. So measured in terms of constraints on agency and movement, in terms of the prevailing conditions of segregation, incarceration, dependency, and economic

marginality. All of these create geographies of confinement that provide the roadmap for COVID's

most devastating trajectories. So reversing the scripts that were drawn from the armed protest in Michigan and elsewhere,

we want to look at how this disease is giving us a legible text that reveals how different

populations face the consequences of confinement, literally, figuratively, and historically.

Our guests for this episode are Mark Lamont Hill, the New York Times bestselling author,

host of BET News and Black Coffee and professor at Temple University.

Nina Cohn, visiting professor at Yale Law School and advocate for elder rights.

Ravi Ragbear, immigrant rights activist and executive director of the New Sanctuary Coalition

of New York.

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