1. ‘The ‘Ongoingness' of the Work Is Really What Matters'
Novelist and poet Julia Alvarez talks about her work, meditation, and ‘home.’
2. ‘We Are Not Essential. We Are Sacrificial.’
I’m a New York City subway conductor who had Covid-19. Now I’m going back to work.
3. Individual Heroism Won’t Save Us
We shouldn’t have to be heroes to survive in this country.
4. A Pastor in The Bronx Thought He Knew Hardship. Then His Church Saw 13 Coronavirus Deaths
Pastors are trying to help members of their congregation while dealing with losses of their own.
5. Black Bodies Are Devalued and Overlooked in Georgia
Governor Kemp's COVID-19 response, and the killing of Ahmaud Arbery, replay a longer history.
Some of the nation's biggest COVID-19 outbreaks have been in prisons and jails, and they can quickly spread to surrounding communities.
7. Spiritual Care at the Front Lines of the Pandemic
“We joke that chaplains don’t run. Part of what we do is offer that calm and compassionate presence.”
8. Normal Wasn't Working: Economic Justice in a Post-COVID Reality
Though the virus may not discriminate, our humanmade systems and structures do.
9. The Woman Who Finds Peace in Productivity
Far from being burned out, some of us are fired up by keeping busy.
10. How to Cope With COVID-19 Grief This Mother’s Day
Whether it’s last year’s Mother’s Day or last century’s Mother’s Day, none of us imagined we’d spend this spring helplessly taming a pandemic.
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