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PROLOGUE
Navin Ramalingam and Hillary Richardt
The Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality (JL1) co-hosted
the 2020 Summit for Civil Rights in partnership with the Institute
on Metropolitan Opportunity and Georgetown University Law
Center's Workers' Rights Institute.I The 2020 Summit for Civil
Rights took place virtually on July 30 and 31, 2020.2
The 2020 Summit occurred amidst profound social, political,
and economic strife. At the time of the Summit, the COVID-19
pandemic was already responsible for over 100,000 deaths in the
U.S. alone.3 At the time of publication, over 1.9 million people have
died from COVID-19 globally.4 America's deeply entrenched health
inequities and disparities put racial and ethnic minority groups at
an increased risk of contracting and dying from COVID-19.5 Black
Americans are more than twice as likely to die from COVID-19 as
White Americans.6
t. Navin Ramalingam is the Editor-in-Chief, and Hillary Richard is a Staff
Member, of Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, Volume 39.
1. See 2020 Summit for Civil Rights - Opening Statements, MINN. J. OF L. &
INEQ., (Nov. 16, 2020), https://lawandinequality.org/2020/11/16/2020-summit-for-
civil-rights-opening-statements/. JLI and the Institute on Metropolitan Opportunity
co-hosted the first Summit in 2017. For more information on and links to streams of
the 2017 Summit, see The Summit for Civil Rights: Law & Inequality: A Journal of
Theory and Practice Symposium, UNIV. OF MINN. L. SCH.,
https://www.law.umn.edu/events/summit-civil-rights.
2. See SUMMIT FOR CIVIL RIGHTS, https://summitforcivilrights.org/
[https://perma.cc/P2WQ-39P6].
3. Dan Barry, Larry Buchanan, Clinton Cargill, Annie Daniel, Alain
Delaqu6riere, et al., Remembering the 100,000 Lives Lost to Coronavirus in America,
N.Y. TIMES (May 24, 2020), https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/05/24/us/us-
coronavirus-deaths-100000.html [https://perma.cc/J3D5-TH6S].
4. Ensheng Dong, Hongru Du & Lauren Gardner, An Interactive Web-Based
Dashboard to Track COVID-19 in Real Time, 20 LANCET INFECT. DIS. 533, published
online at COVID-19 Dashboard by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering
(CSSE), JOHNS HOPKINS UNIV. & MED.: CORONAVIRUS RES. CTR.,
https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html.
5. Health Equity Considerations and Racial and Ethnic Minority Groups, CDC
(July 24, 2020), https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/community/health-
equity/race-ethnicity.html [https://perma.cc/J4GY-RPSC] ('Long-standing systemic
health and social inequities have put many people from racial and ethnic minority
groups at increased risk of getting sick and dying from COVID-19.).
6. Nat'l Ctr. For Health Stat., Deaths Involving Coronavirus Disease 2019
(COVID-19) by Race and Hispanic Origin Group and Age, by State, CDC,
https://data.cdc. gov/NCHS/Deaths-involving-coronavirus-disease-2019-COVID-](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.journals/lieq39&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)
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