Last week, as the coronavirus curve started to flatten in my home state of New York, sobering news rocked my strange new world: COVID-19, the deadly disease caused by the novel coronavirus, continues to infect black Americans at an alarmingly disproportionate rate.
Thirty percent of COVID-19 patients in the U.S. are black. When I read the latest data issued on April 17 by the Centers for Disease Control, a wave of emotions washed over me.