The protests continue and the virus hasn't gone anywhere.

I worry that the virus is going to spread back exactly to the communities where a lot

of this police violence already happens and so this will only make things worse.

A sheesh jaw of Harvard's Global Health Institute.

We're in the middle of a pandemic, the country is opening up and then civil unrest from long

standing racial injustices, put it all together and it's a very perilous moment for our nation.

Coming up by almost every economic measure, black Americans have a harder time getting

ahead and that is in a healthy economy.

The pandemic is only making things worse.

This is coronavirus daily from NPR, I'm Kelly McEvers, it's Tuesday, June 2.

The more we learn about this virus, the clearer it is that it is disproportionately

affecting communities of color.

Of course, so many things in American life already do that.

Black folk live in communities where a single economic shop can really send the entire

economic hopes astray.

Andre Perry studies race and inequality at the Brookings Institution and he says black

Americans who are more likely to work quote unquote essential jobs are more vulnerable to

any economic downturn.

Take for instance, Minnesota, the median black family in the Twin Cities makes $38,000 a year.

The median white family, $84,000.

Nationwide, you can only find worse income inequality in one city, Milwaukee.

In 2019, the state of Minnesota ranked 50th when it comes to racial disparities in high

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