Five Questions
In class we talked about the big questions we want the Bronx Covid Economy Reporting project to engage with. These are the meta questions: Why was Covid so bad here?
Why did more Latinos than other race/ethnic groups die from Covid?
How did the legacies of redlining and structural racism shape what happened in Covid?
How/Did communities come together in crisis to support each other?
How can the economy be rebuilt in a way that works for more people?
Those are the big, almost philosophical questions. In order to get listeners thinking about those questions in the piece we produce, we need to first ask smaller, more concrete and specific questions of the people we are interviewing.
So now in this assignment want you to write those smaller questions.
What are the five questions we should ask each of the people we interview in order to get them talking?
The people will be interviewing are, Home daycare providers and homehealth aides, senior citizens and DACA students, people who work as supers and people who work in restaurants, people who get housing vouchers and people who applied for unemployment, etc.
All these voices in a series will be a symphony of witnesses to the story of Covid’s economy in the Bronx.