African-American Resistance to the COVID-19 Vaccine Reflects a Broader Problem

Plus, the G.O.P. power play blocking pandemic relief, the influence of the anti-vaccine movement, a musical top ten for an unmusical year, and more. View in browser | Update your preferences Daily Comment African-American Resistance to the COVID-19 Vaccine Reflects a Broader Problem For Black Americans, the story extends far beyond distrust of Donald Trump—it goes back to the Tuskegee experiment and the medical exploitation of Henrietta Lacks. By Jelani Cobb Our Columnists A Republican Power Play Is Blocking Essential COVID-19 Relief A group of G.O.P. senators appears less interested in helping people than it is in hobbling the incoming Biden Administration. By John Cassidy Q. & A. The Influence of the Anti-Vaccine Movement The virologist Peter Hotez discusses the spread of misinformation about the COVID-19 vaccine. By Isaac Chotiner 2020 in Review A Musical Top Ten for an Unmusical Year In 2020, any list of the best recordings doubles as a sonic life raft. Here are the songs that sustained me during the plague. By John Schaefer Culture Fiction “Our Lady of the Quarry” “Once, the bus driver said something strange to us: that we should watch out for wild dogs on the loose.” By Mariana Enriquez This Week in Fiction Mariana Enriquez on Teen-Age Desire The author discusses “Our Lady of the Quarry,” her story from this week’s issue of the magazine. By David Wallace The Front Row A Treasure Trove of Jazz and Soul Concerts Incredible live-performance footage is newly available on Quincy Jones’s streaming site, Qwest TV, amplifying the music with a cinematic dimension. By Richard Brody Profiles Arthur Jafa’s Radical Alienation The filmmaker left an art world he found too white; years later, he made a triumphant return with “Love Is the Message, the Message Is Death.” By Calvin Tomkins Humor from The New Yorker Daily Shouts Dreaming of My Vaccination Day What will I wear? What year will it be? Will all my friends get vaccinated before me? By Kate Flanagan Crossword The Weekend Puzzle The “it” of George Mallory’s “Because it’s there”: seven letters. By Patrick Berry This e-mail was sent to you by The New Yorker. To insure delivery, we recommend adding newyorker@newsletters.newyorker.com, to your contacts, while noting that it is a no-reply address. Please send all newsletter feedback to tnyinbox@newyorker.com. For more from The New Yorker, sign up for our newsletters, shop the store, and sign in to newyorker.com, where subscribers always have unlimited access. Contact us with questions. View our Privacy Policy Unsubscribe Copyright © Condé Nast 2020. One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.