“Thirty-five top journalism students from 17 universities conducted a major investigation this summer into the lingering impact of the pandemic as part of the Carnegie-Knight News21 program, a multimedia reporting initiative headquartered at Arizona State University.”
Medical mistreatment, inequity lead to vaccine hesitancy for Black Americans.
By Amudalat Ajasa, Amanda Paule, and Ian S. Brundige
Tuskegee: More than the study
Filmed and Edited by Amanda Paule
Co-Produced by Amudalat Ajasa and Ian S. Brundige
UNMASKING AMERICA: THE PODCAST //
“Consider the narrative of the coronavirus pandemic in the United States this past year. You’ve heard it called an unprecedented time; a nightmare; maybe even a sign of the apocalypse.
But what happens when we consider the country itself a Covid patient with preexisting conditions, with systemic weak points exposed to the onslaught of a new infection? What happens when we consider the pandemic from the perspective of those who have already been living the American Nightmare, or those to whom American life itself was already an apocalypse?”
— Amanda Paule, Host and Co-Producer, Unmasking America
