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ABC NEWS PRESENTS SPECIAL COVERAGE OF THE DISPARITIES IN RACE AND CLASS AMID THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC

‘Pandemic – A Nation Divided’ Begins Tomorrow, May 20, Across All ABC News

ABC News announced today it will present special coverage for three days across ABC News to examine the racial/ethnic and socioeconomic disparities amid the coronavirus pandemic. “Pandemic – A Nation Divided” kicks off on Wednesday, May 20 with new stories about how the virus has heightened racial/ethnic and socioeconomic divides coast-to-coast. The most recent statistics are troubling: in the nation’s capital, Latinos have been seven times more likely to be infected with coronavirus than white residents; black residents in Chicago are nearly three times more likely to die than white city residents and in Georgia 80% of COVID-19 hospitalizations are African Americans; in New York City African Americans are twice as likely to die of the virus than white residents and in New York State, of the 21 zip codes with the most new COVID-19 hospitalizations, 20 have greater than average black and/or Latino populations.

“As the COVID-19 global pandemic became a black, brown and working class epidemic in America, we quickly recognized there was an urgent need to tell more stories from these communities,” said Marie Nelson, SVP of Integrated Content Strategy, ABC News. “It is incredibly heartening to see every corner of ABC News think big and deeply for a cohesive examination of the many sobering stories that have made the racial and class divide, stemming from this pandemic, more apparent across this country.”

The latest ABC News reporting on COVID-19 is available here: https://abcnews.go.com/alerts/coronavirus.

MaryAlice Parks serves as Supervising Producer on “Pandemic – A Nation Divided.”

This special coverage between May 20-22 includes:

“Nightline”

Co-anchor Juju Chang will give a glimpse into the pandemic’s epicenter in the U.S. – the Bronx. As she walks neighborhood by neighborhood, Chang will connect the dots about public housing, close quarter living, food deserts and underlying health hazards. She talks to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a NYC bus driver who has lost co-workers to the virus and now works double shifts because thousands of his colleagues are out sick and a young city council member raised in public housing. “Nightline” also meets a local Latino doctor working to expand testing.

Co-anchor Byron Pitts will bring viewers to central Mississippi, where an immigrant, who was detained in massive raids that targeted local meat processing plants in early August, opens up about the hazardous conditions and outbreaks inside the area’s poultry plants and detention centers. He says he and other detainees say they asked for PPE for weeks before receiving any. “Nightline” talks to Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba and Dr. Charles Robertson, who works at one of the largest hospitals in the state and has built 170 ventilators of his own design.

Correspondent Deborah Roberts will shine a light on the suburbs of Chicago where a family with mixed immigration status live in a multi-generational home. One family member works at an Amazon warehouse, another at a meat-packing plant, and their story displays the risk of going to work and the complications and limitations of trying to social-distance at home. “Nightline” also speaks with other Amazon center employees who have been calling for safer working conditions, fearful that they could bring the virus home.

“World News Tonight with David Muir”

Chief National Correspondent Matt Gutman travels to Navajo Nation, the reservation spanning the corners of New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah, that has lost more of its citizens in the pandemic than many states with experts predicting their peak is yet to come. “World News Tonight” speaks to Native doctors who are battling the virus that has ravaged their people and distributing food and medicine. The report examines how the Navajo are fighting to keep traditions alive amidst some of the strictest lockdown measures in the country and features one hard-hit multi-generational family that lost relatives and even their home.

Correspondent Alex Perez reports from the streets of Chicago, a city facing two public health crises: COVID-19 and continued gun violence. Despite safer at home measures, the city has experienced an uptick in crime. “World News Tonight” follows an outreach worker in the Roseland area, who is part of Chicago CRED, a frontline group working to break the cycle of violence in the community and now informing the public about the seriousness of the pandemic, and visits a testing center performing approximately 100 tests a day in a mostly African American and Latino neighborhood. In addition, an emergency room physician paints a real picture of racial disparity in COVID-19 cases in city hospitals.

Correspondent Adrienne Bankert visits the Bronx to report on how community groups like East Side House Settlement are helping families find solutions to the challenges they’re facing during the COVID-19 crisis including remote learning, food shortages, and job insecurity. Bankert interviews Daniel Diaz, Executive Director of East Side House Settlement, about how the organization has given out free hotspots as well as more than 230 tablets to students in its community so they can continue their learning. Diaz also shares the various other ways the nonprofit has pivoted from workforce/education development to filling even the most basic needs for residents including distributing food weekly, making remote health and safety check-ins on families and students and helping pay some residents’ bills. “World News Tonight” also highlights some Bronx families willing to give an inside look at how they’re tackling distance learning and their plans for the summer and concerns as the fall 2020 school year quickly approaches.

“Good Morning America”

Senior National Correspondent Paula Faris will report on the role that The Boys and Girls Club has played in offering child care to essential workers.

Multi-Platform Reporter Rachel Scott will interview leaders at Howard University who are offering free coronavirus tests in especially hard-hit communities in the nation’s capital.

“The View”

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) will discuss the racial disparity in COVID-19 cases plaguing communities across the country when he joins the co-hosts on Thursday.

“Pandemic: What You Need to Know”

Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves will address the deep racial divide in cases and the explosion of cases near detention centers, prisons and meat-packing plants.

Jonathan Nez, President of Navajo Nation, will discuss how the virus has threatened their communities, and Birmingham, Alabama Mayor Randall Woodfin will highlight his economic plan for bringing his city back.

Dr. Monica Goldston, CEO of Prince George's County Schools, will add her thoughts on how to make sure no low-income and minority children in Maryland get left behind.

A profile of Fawn Weaver, an inspiring African American woman owner of a whiskey distillery, will feature how she pivoted her company to respond to the crisis.

“ABC News Live Prime” with Linsey Davis

Anchor Linsey Davis will explore how the virus has set back residents of disadvantaged neighborhoods struggling to get out. She looks closely at one Brooklyn neighborhood where a child mourns the loss of his mother who died in a hospital struggling to stay open. This child who will now have to be raised by his grandmother now faces a future uncertain because the school he attends doesn’t know if it will reopen in the fall.

Correspondent Diane Macedo will profile the struggles of an Illinois and Texas family with mixed immigration status who are trying to wade through COVID-19 benefits that appear to have left many of them out.

Scott will examine the COVID-19 experience on one of the wealthiest and poorest neighborhoods in our nation’s capital.

Roberts will spotlight black leaders who have stepped up as the cavalry to save their own neighborhoods.

ABC News and GMA Digital

ABCNews.com will pay tribute to thought leaders and pioneers who have been lost to COVID-19, offer a look at how the black church in America will rebuild after losing so many members of clergy and provide a close examination of how minority-small businesses are struggling to get federal economic relief.

A feature on Asian American-owned small businesses will give an inside look into the unique economic realities and hardships they’re facing.

Original produced video pieces will feature experts offering reasons for long-standing health and economic disparities in the country and next steps.

GoodMorningAmerica.com will feature and profile graduating seniors, extraordinary young men and women of color, who overcame incredible odds.

FiveThirtyEight

A new investigative project will launch that analyzes testing site availability and breaks down how access to COVID-19 testing varies by race, income and more.

“This Week with George Stephanopoulos”

The Powerhouse roundtable will discuss voting and voting access, as well as new polling about the uneven toll of the virus and anxieties about getting back to work.

ABC Audio

“Start Here” podcast hosted by Brad Mielke will explore the intersection of COVID-19 and race through health and the pre-existing conditions that lead to greater sickness, the lack of resources for vulnerable populations and the potential for skepticism of medical care in general; the economic impact on families; and how this crisis has shaped communities for the long term and could exacerbate historic inequities and where things could land a generation from now.

Special editions of the daily radio special and podcast “COVID-19: What You Need to Know,” hosted by Correspondent Aaron Katersky, will be released each day. In addition to answering questions about the virus itself, the special editions will examine how COVID-19 affects different communities unevenly.

This Friday ABC Audio will also release a special edition of the radio newsmagazine and podcast “Perspective,” hosted by ABC News Radio Anchor Cheri Preston. The hour-long program will focus entirely on issues of race and ethnicity, and how some groups have been more at risk during the pandemic.

ABC NewsOne

The affiliate news service of ABC News will offer stations a report from Multi-Platform Reporter Alex Presha on the challenges minority-owned small businesses are facing in the time of the pandemic and his interview with NAACP President Derrick Johnson. NewsOne will also provide resources for ABC stations to support their coverage of this issue. NewsOne provides news content and services for more than 200 ABC affiliates and international news partners.

ABC Owned Television Stations

On Wednesday, 6abc/WPVI-TV Philadelphia will contribute to the Pandemic: A Nation Divided special with anchor Nydia Han airing a report on the racial discrimination faced by the Asian American community and the support to extinguish racism, and reporter George Solis presenting a digital reporter’s notebook from the perspective of a Hispanic American reporter and the impact on his community. And, on Thursday, WLS-TV Chicago will air an investigative report on Cook County to examine the health complications more likely experienced by African Americans and the increased likelihood of Latinx communities to contract the disease.

On Wednesday, ABC7/KABC-TV Los Angeles will host a virtual town hall, “Race and Coronavirus: A SoCal Conversation,” featuring Veronica Miracle and Los Angeles-based doctors and leaders to discuss how the virus has affected the health and finances of racial and ethnic groups and contributed to the rise of discrimination.

On Thursday, ABC13/KTRK-TV Houston will host its second virtual Town Hall to discuss the racial impact of COVID-19, focusing on the Asian American Community. Hosted by ABC13’s Eyewitness News reporter Miya Shay, the town hall coincides with the observance of Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month to discuss the disparate challenges of COVID-19 faced by the 7% of Houstonians that identify as AAPI. KTRK-TV Houston’s first virtual town hall (5/7/20) featured Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner and Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee.

The virtual town halls are the latest in a series of community offerings across the owned markets: WABC-TV New York hosted an Instagram Live Town Hall ‘Coronavirus Pandemic Impact on African Americans: Mortality, Messaging and Money’ (4/29/20); KABC-TV Los Angeles exclusively streamed the Minority Health Institute Virtual Town Hall on the Impact of COVID-19 in African American Communities (4/30/20); WPVI-TV Philadelphia hosted a Town Hall about The Virus of Hate (5/14/20), and KGO-TV San Francisco hosted three-part “Bay Area Conversation about Race & Coronavirus.” All town halls are available for streaming on digital and the stations’ connected TV apps across Amazon FireTV, Android TV, Roku, and tvOS.

Additionally, stations continue to report the disparate impacts from COVID-19 that exist within communities with previous notable coverage including WTVD-TV Raleigh-Durham's broadcast of a half hour report called The Racial Divide on the financial, health, and educational disparities resulting from the pandemic (5/7/20), WABC-TV New York’s “Upclose with Bill Ritter” that recently featured New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy, “Tiempo” and “Here and Now” public affairs programs, and WPVI-TV Raleigh-Durham's story on uncovering the challenges in the Latinx community.

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How LGBTQ people are breaking down barriers to take on the great outdoors

Up until approximately, mmm, yesterday, there's been a enduring stereotype of "outdoorsy" people: They're white, cis, straight, and love granola and/or semi-automatic rifles.

Of course, there have always been people who love nature and don't fall into any of those categories. And over the past few years, opportunities for LGBTQ people who want to camp, hike, and otherwise spend time with *real plants in nature* — not aloe plants in apartments — have grown exponentially.

Between summer camps for adult trans folks and stripper-heels-wearing backpacking queens, there's a growing outdoors community on Instagram and even in real life.

It's a quiet change, but it's one that matters.

SEE ALSO: Watch Pattie Gonia, the world's first backpacking queen, strut

Perry Cohen is the founder and executive director of The Venture Out Project, which takes queer and trans people out into the wilderness for short day hikes and longer wilderness trips. Cohen, a trans man, grew up with friends who spent their summers with Outward Bound and other camps. His friends described camp as a "life-changing experience" where they could go and "be with people who didn't know them ... and have a new identity."

Cohen was intrigued. He knew he was queer and was excited to be in a space where he could explore a new identity. But when he arrived at camp, "the group was already divided between boys and girls. I thought, 'I don't think this is going to be any different. I probably shouldn't tell them I listen to the Indigo Girls.'"

Cohen learned plenty of outdoor skills at camp. He just didn't get to do it while being his true self.

Fast forward 20 years, though, and throw in two of the most powerful social movements of the 21st century. Cohen, together with a diverse group of LGBTQ activists and performers, is helping to reduce the "nature gap" and ensure that queer and trans youth have better experiences than he did.

Here's how the barriers are being broken.

LGBTQ activists are making rural America a safer, queerer place

Queer culture has always been concentrated in cities — on paper, at least. Even in 2018, most people who identify as queer continue to live in large metropolitan areas like San Francisco and New York City. Big and typically progressive, these urban areas have become home to bustling queer communities and their culture, often defined just by nightlife.

That doesn't mean queer culture is confined to cities, or that there aren't members of the community who want to venture into the great outdoors.

Pattie Gonia, "the world's first backpacking queen," knows this well. Artist and photographer Wyn Wiley, who lives in Nebraska, plays Pattie. Wiley grew up in the cornfields near Colorado, an area not exactly known for its queer community. Nonetheless, he's found a loving home in this part of the country and in nature. It's a home he loves to share on his Instagram as Pattie.

In her first month on Instagram, Pattie has already gained over 18,000 followers.

"I'm pretty vastly loved and accepted for who I am back home," Wiley says. "There's a really big queer queer community in the Midwest in its own little fissures."

Pattie in her element

Image: courtesy of wyn wiley

Not all queer and trans people feel quite as comfortable as Wiley does in rural spaces.

Elyse Rylander is the Executive Director of Out There Adventures, which takes queer and trans youth and adults on wilderness adventures. Some of her clients experience real anxiety about rural areas and the people they might encounter there.

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The interpretive sweep stroke dance. #kayaking #getoutthere #rainbowcrew

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"There's a historical trauma of being out in rural spaces," Rylander says. She mentions Matthew Shepard, who was murdered in 1998 in Laramie, Wyoming, for being gay. "They want to know, "What am I going to experience out there in the back country?.. I'd much rather encounter a black or brown bear than somebody whose motives I don't know."

Rylander works hard to mitigate young people's anxiety in rural areas. And people are more accepting of queer and trans people in 2018 than they were in 1998, even in rural areas and even as violence persists. Young queer and trans people who want to safely explore nature now can, thanks to programs like Rylander's.

LGBTQ adults are making up for lost time at camp

For many queer and trans adults, summer camp remains a lost part of their childhood. Plenty of LGBTQ people went to camp, but they often weren't out there. It was supposed to be a refuge from school and a place to explore new identities; instead, it became a confining experience.

Cohen initially set out to create an Outward Bound for queer youth. Venture Out's earliest programming was dedicated exclusively to this population. Over time, Cohen began to field more and more requests from adults who wanted to make up for the experiences they never got in their youth.

"They'd tell me "I never got to do this as a kid. I never got to backpack in this identity. I want to do it as me."

A few years ago, Cohen started leading trips for adults. The trips sold out their very first season.

Venture Out trips are for more than just the kids.

Image: courtesy of venture out

Nowadays, Venture Out offers multiple options for people in the queer community: youth trips, POC trips, adult trips, trans trips, and family trips, where at least one person in the family is queer or trans identified.

Some camps are a little more targeted. Rocco Kayiatos is a founder and camp director at Camp Lost Boys, which is exclusively for men who have had trans experiences. Rocco transitioned 20 years ago, during the "dark ages for trans representation." Having grown up with almost no trans male role models, he believes in the power of creating a space for men of trans experience to be with each other as men.

"We have people who identify as men in all stages of their transition, including those who visibly don't read as male. But no one is going to ask them what their PGP [personal gender pronoun] is here. They're fortified that weekend as their true male self."

The camp provides a unique opportunity, Kaviatos says. "As a trans people, the things offered to us are bars, nightclubs or academic causes and health conferences ... There's no real spaces to gather and have fun and ... not have these academic conversations or engage in this politicized way."

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Look at all at all that land! Can’t wait... . . . . #camplostboys #transmenofig #ftmtransgender #guyslikeus #transmen #transmenofcolor #thisiswhattranslookslike

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With Camp Lost Boys, Kaviatos hopes to provide an intergenerational camp where trans men "get to be men, and recapture and reclaim this piece of childhood they didn't get."

Camp Lost Boys exclusively serves men of trans experience but prioritizes men of color and older generations who are even less likely to have access to services like Lost Boys.

Both camps work hard to pull people away from their phones and toward nature and the people around them. In 2018, there are dozens of other operations just like them.

Even social media is breaking barriers

It's an awkward relationship. If if weren't for digital media, some of these camps that resist technology probably wouldn't exist.

As much as I hate giving the platforms credit for anything, it's hard to ignore the spike in representation of LGBTQ hikers on Instagram. A few years ago, Jenny Bruso started the Instagram account Unlikely Hikers, which features LGTBQ, POC, and people with disabilities out in nature. The account has since grown to 49 thousand followers. It's a beautiful thing.

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“When I tell people that I hike and where I travel to do so, often the response is ‘Oh really, YOU hike?’ Or ‘Oh wow, YOU have been there?’ People are shocked and surprised especially at all the facts I know about National parks. I know I do not look like the average hiker, camper or outdoor adventurist but I am.” -Brandi / @brandihikes #BrandiOnATrail ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Location: Bryce Canyon National Park. Ancestral lands of the Southern Paiute, Ute+ #brycecanyon ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Tag #unlikelyhikers or #unlikelyhiker to be featured! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ [image description: person stands above a breathtaking canyon of rock spires and sparse tree foliage. Could be another planet.]

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“Be your own star. Don't try and follow anyone, you will never catch up.” -Nye / @nyearmstrong ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Pronouns: she/her ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Location: Grand Canyon, Arizona. Ancestral land of the Havasupai, Ute, Hopi & Navajo. #grandcanyon ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Tag #unlikelyhikers or #unlikelyhiker to be featured! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ [Image description: smiling person with head covered, standing with arms outstretched at scenic viewpoint of Grand Canyon during dusk or dawn. Canyon consists of many layers and formations of rock with sparse vegetation.]

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Cohen credits Instagram for a spike of interest in his camp and LGBTQ outdoor recreation in general.

"There's been an explosion in social media of diverse representation of people in the outdoors, that's inspired lots of people to think, 'Oh, I can do this.' As our participant group has become more diverse, it's helped attract more and more people to our trips."

Pattie's account, which features her in heels downing Cheetos in the wilderness, has a quiet social mission as well.

"I am the worst at doing my own makeup and doing everything that a normal queen can do. So I decided to break the mold and do whatever I do ... I put on this pair of heels and took it up to the mountains."

Pattie knows that representation matters, and can even make a difference in the smallest of ways:

"I just think that comes from the lens of seeing a lot of my activist friends do incredible shit. [But] it's not engaging online so it's hard to get eyes on it. Pattie Gonia is my way of challenging people and creating a fun and open space online."

LGBTQ people have a long way to go when it comes to equal representation in just about ... anything. Still, they're slowly making their way up the mountain, one summer camp, Instagram post, and one viral music video at a time.

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