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By Mark Gruenberg
CHICAGO—One of every seven Illinoisans is an African-American. One of every three Chicagoans is an African-American. And 72% of the deaths in the Windy City from the coronavirus pandemic are of African-Americans.
It’s horrifying contrasts like that, duplicated—though not to such an extreme—in cities from New York to Milwaukee to Detroit to D.C., that has motivated the Congressional Black Caucus to start campaigning hard for targeted economic aid to hard-hit communities of color nationwide.
After all, it’s their constituents who are, in outsize numbers, dying.
“We are the lifeline of the nation, and we are disproportionately impacted,” says Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee, D-Texas, who represents center-city Houston. “We are trying to save lives, and the federal government has to get in line” to help....
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