Interview 069 with Kia Barbee

Black America and Covid by Sonja J Killebrew

Episode notes

Listen to Black American Kia Barbee from Queens, New York share about living and working during the Covid-19 pandemic. She shares how her great-great grandmother on her maternal side was a slave and her grandmother’s dad was Indigenous American. She memorializes the life of a relative who was hospitalized in April of 2020 for a non-Covid-related ailment and then sadly passed away in November of 2020.

On working from home:

“I loved it. I thought it was great, because I felt secure that I still had an income and I didn’t have to go out and transport to work.” Kia says.