In A Post-Pandemic World: Ending Black inequality and promoting public policy equity, in pursuit of the American Dream

The following is testimony given by Dr. John Louis Flateau to the New York State Assembly and New York State Senate Joint Legislative Hearing on Solutions to the Disproportionate Impacts Of COVID-19 On Minority Communities, May 18, 2020,

Local, state and national research has definitively established that Black Brooklyn and Queens are the epicenter of the national coronavirus pandemic. Not by coincidence, do African Americans and their diaspora, have a tragic historical relationship to the present catastrophe. My own ancestry includes a great grandmother, Sarah Flateau, killed by the 1918 pandemic in Ascension Parish . . .