Step 3 Resources

The documentary series, Unnatural Causes, addresses the root of socio-economic and racial inequities in health.

You can expect to find more in-depth descriptions of each episode followed by a short video clip, related resources and a discussion guide to accompany the documentary. These are the short video films available in this seven-part series:

• In Sickness and In Wealth
• When the Bough Breaks
• Becoming American
• Bad Sugar
• Place Matters
• Collateral Damage
• Not Just a Paycheck

Alexis Madrigal’s Tracking Race and Ethnicity in the COVID-19 Pandemic explains that the COVID-19 pandemic isn’t affecting all communities in the same way.

Topics highlighted in this article include:

• States not reporting racial data.
• Where states do report racial data, “unknown” remains a huge category.
• Collapsing ethnicity into race, obscuring uneven outcomes across distinct communities.

For a continuation of Dr. Kendi’s talk, visit The COVID Racial Data Tracker to learn more about how Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOCare being disproportionately affected by COVID-19.

Jamila Taylor, director of health care reform and senior fellow, The Century Foundation, discusses Racism, Inequity and Health Care for African Americans in a 2019 report.

The Society for Research in Child Development addresses inequities in education in its report, Considerations for LGBTQ+ Children and Youth in the Era of COVID-19.