Black Americans have died from COVID at a much higher rate than other populations. This is how some of their stories will be told.
, the engagement director for The City and one of the leaders of the project. “We’re not trying to come out with the final product immediately.”
Parris, along with his coleader, Derek Kravitz, an instructor at the Columbia Journalism School, is working with a handful of City staff members, about 20 students from the Columbia Journalism School and the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York, and volunteer journalists to register, catalog, and, eventually, memorialize, victims.
particularly in reaching distinct populations within New York City. “This post is in English,” Parris points out, referring to the initial callout. “We know that we need to post it in Spanish. We need to post it in Yiddish.” Kravtiz describes the work they have done with a Bangladeshi doctor, who, in response to a Facebook post, collected 170 names of people whose deaths had been reported primarily or only in Bangla media and then shared that list with The City.
When I spoke to Parris and Kravitz, it was toward the end of a week of protests, and I asked them if their thinking about the project had changed in recent days. “From the beginning,” says Kravitz, “the focus was: How do we make sure that people are not just counted as statistics? One might look at the number and not really feel what that number means to New York and to families.”
“Post-COVID,” Parris adds, “there’s going to be a lot of people who are forgotten. We want to offer an opportunity for those people to not be forgotten. There are 21,000 challenges to this project, but there is one reason to pursue it, and that’s to remember the New Yorkers who have died. That’s the most important reason, and it supersedes all the challenges.”
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