Photograph by Nathaniel St. ClairWhat do you call a crisis that kills a hundred thousand Americans? It all depends on who does the dying.At first, it seemed like it was mostly white people infected and/or killed by the coronavirus.As the scale of the coronavirus pandemic dawned on Americans during the month of March, most of the media attention was given to white people like Tom Hanks, while the of coronavirus to people went largely by American media. It was around this time when both the media and the White House it a national emergency.The early cases that made the news and caught...…Photograph by Nathaniel St. ClairWhat do you call a crisis that kills a hundred thousand Americans? It all depends on who does the dying.At first, it seemed like it was mostly white people infected and/or killed by the coronavirus.As the scale of the coronavirus pandemic dawned on Americans during the month of March, most of the media attention was given to white people like Tom Hanks, while the of coronavirus to people went largely by American media. It was around this time when both the media and the White House it a national emergency.The early cases that made the news and caught...WW…

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