Author: Tammy Baldwin

Systemic racism has plagued our country for far too long and those that deny it can do so no longer. Despite the best intentions of many who work within our institutions of public service, education, economic, health care and criminal justice, the outcomes produced by these systems are too often plagued by racial inequalities that we need to confront and fix. These inequalities existed long before the current public health and economic crisis we face, but the coronavirus pandemic has laid bare health and economic disparities that have contributed to higher rates of coronavirus cases and deaths in communities...