Jackson talks about Black women's experiences with COVID-19 in GenForward

March 16, 2021

GenForward

Jenn M. Jackson

Political Science Department

Campbell Public Affairs Institute

Civil Rights

COVID-19

Health Policy

Race & Ethnicity

United States

GenForward

Jenn M. Jackson

In their article, "This Women’s History Month, Recognize Black Women’s Efforts To Save Ourselves," published by the GenForward Survey, Assistant Professor of Political Science Jenn Jackson discusses Black women's experiences with COVID-19. "This Women’s History Month, as we celebrate our wins it’s critical that we acknowledge how Black women continue to struggle against the disproportionate impacts of health precarity and how that struggle has only been compounded during the pandemic," writes Jackson. "For many of these women, it isn’t just the health institutions and systemic racism that shape their experiences during the pandemic. It has also been the proliferation of unreliable information sources since the start of the global health crisis."