Listen to Black American Natasha Herring, MFA, from The Lower East Side of New York City and now living in Harlem share about living in New York City during the Covid-19 pandemic and working for a part of an organization that trained homecare workers and nursing home workers. “So that was really tough and very dark.” Natasha recalls. “I was a manager. So, I was managing my team…Managing them…helping and assisting with our homecare workers and the nursing home workers and their losses…and then also my team who lost loved ones and trying to keep it together for myself and my own family. So, when I tell you it was hit after hit after hit. It was really, really though.”

Natasha Herring:

“And also, I had a friend who was working security at a hospital in Brooklyn and who, unfortunately, had to witness a lot of ...