In a Latino community near Chicago, too many victims of COVID are identified as white, Black or other.
Race and Equity
The coalition, said co-founder Lamikia Castillo, demanded “that the LA County Board of Supervisors change its practices,” so that “families are not pulled apart.”
The project's investigative journalism has made an impact. Bexar County, for example, is using maps created for the series to change its approach.
In the southern part of the city, options for hospitals, medical specialists and surgical centers are limited. Those in the industry say there’s little motivation to change that.
A reporter goes home to L.A.’s ‘industrial dumping ground’ to find residents dying at alarming rates
Deaths spiked in Wilmington during the pandemic — but a reporter finds it wasn't because of COVID as much as pollution-driven illnesses.
About 400 unhoused people stay at Hotel Whitcomb, and many deal with substance use disorders. That means staff who work at the hotel are fighting to keep guests alive.
Building on Express-News Reporter Laura Garcia's in-depth series on health care disparities in San Antonio, she will engage a panel of experts in a frank discussion about such inequities on the South Side, as well as solutions.
The achievement gap has long been a public education concern. Now the pandemic has widened it even more.
How policy decisions in Virginia led Latinos to being among the most likely to get infected, hospitalized and die in the first two years of the pandemic.
The San Antonio Express-News analyzed historical census data between 1970 and 2020 that covered three topics: education atainment, Hispanic ethnicity and median family income.