The Coronavirus in ‘the Other DC’

The Coronavirus in ‘the Other DC’

Serve Your City Executive Director Maurice Cook joins the show to talk the coronavirus’s impact on people of color in Washington, DC.

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This week we take a sidestep from sports and talk to Maurice Cook from the Ward 6 Mutual Aid Network. We talk about the the coronavirus’s impact on DC, how it’s affected people of color in the city, and what can be done about it.

We also have some Choice Words about the dystopian plans to reopen the sports world that are floating around right now. In addition, we have Just Stand Up and Just Sit Down awards to Jalen Rose on the anniversary of his shellacking of Skip Bayless and Maven Media for their decision to fire friend of the show Grant Wahl and their pathetic decision to slander him on his way out. All that and more on this week’s Edge of Sports!

Maurice Cook
Serve Your City
Twitter: @mcSYCdc

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Dave ZirinDave Zirin is the sports editor at The Nation. He is the author of 11 books on the politics of sports. He is the author of a new book, The People’s Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn.


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