Six feet apart or six feet under: The impact of COVID-19 on the Black community

Sharon E. Moore · Sharon D. Jones-Eversley · Willie F. Tolliver · Betty L. Wilson · Christopher Allen Jones

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Death, Funerary Practices, and Mourning Race, History, and American Society Racial and Ethnic Identity Research

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To date, 110,000+ people in the United States have died from the COVID-19 pandemic. In this paper, the authors will discuss COVID-19 relative to Black people and their overrepresentation among those who are infected and died from the disease. Their dying, death, and grief experiences are explored through a cultural and spiritual lens. The physical distancing, social isolation, misinformation, and restrictive burials and cremations now elicited by this unprecedented pandemic have had diminished familial, cultural, emotional, and economic impacts on the Black community. Implications for public health and Black peoples' involvement in the political process are also addressed.

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