Hey there --

As coronavirus continues to wreak havoc across the United States, another virus is also killing people at an alarming rate: anti-Black racism.

Police brutality in the United States, fueled by anti-Blackness, has taken countless Black lives over the course of centuries, and most recently George Floyd in Minnesota and Breonna Taylor in Kentucky. It's critical to see the protests happening across the country against the backdrop of the coronavirus outbreak, which has disproportionately impacted Black communities, another symptom of systemic racism that has allowed Black Americans to die.

It is a powerful reminder and call to action to continue to lift up the voices of the marginalized, not just today, but all days, as we fight for an economy and a democracy that works for all people.

We cannot -- and will not -- be silent. Share these stories right now:

→ "We have to think transformatively about what kind of America we want when this crisis is over," says Vanita Gupta, President of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, explaining how systemic racism in America has allowed the coronavirus crisis to have a disproportionate impact on communities of color:
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→ "We cannot let this be another news story," says Gwen Carr, the mother of Eric Garner, a Black man killed by police in 2014. "We all have to get out and stand together:"
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→ "I am sick, and you guys are still keeping me in here, I don't have the proper PPE to work with now, and I just don't want to die," says Tanya Beckford, a certified nursing assistant who was worried about contracting coronavirus and dying because of the conditions in her Connecticut nursing home. She tested positive for coronavirus mere days after expressing her fears:
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→ "We are at a boiling point," Rashad Robinson, president of Color of Change, calls on leaders to change the rules that allow police to take Black lives with impunity:
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→ "What was unveiled last week with the unfortunate death of Mr. Floyd is what many of us in the African American community have always known," says NAACP president and CEO Derrick Johnson. "Absent the videotape, there's a level of police violence against our community that must be addressed:"
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Thanks for fighting alongside us.

In solidarity --

Emi and the PeopleGreater Team

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