Black Americans Bear the Brunt as Deaths Climb, The New York Times, Front Page, 4/8/20

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/07/us/coronavirus-race.html

"The statistics are preliminary and much remains unknown because most cities and states are not reporting race as they provide numbers of confirmed cases of and fatalities."  

"Sharrelle Barber, an assistant research professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at Drexel University, said the effects of government redlining policies that began in the 1930s linger. Many black residents live in segregated neighborhoods that lack job opportunities, stable housing, grocery stores with healthy food and more."

“These communities, structurally, they’re breeding grounds for the transmission of the disease,” Dr. Barber said. “It’s not biological. It’s really these existing structural inequalities that are going to shape the racial inequalities in this pandemic.”

Also, a letter in the Opinion column of The New York Times re: Why Black Americans Are Hit Harder by the Coronavirus (the title given to the online version of the paper's article)

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/08/opinion/letters/coronavirus-race-ineq...