These are not the best of times. It is 2021 and the world is living, surviving, and dying through a pandemic. Most of us have been touched directly or indirectly by the COVID-19 virus. Many people have suffered a punishing blow. In the United States, millions of people have been diagnosed with the coronavirus and hundreds of thousands of people have died of complications from the virus. COVID-19 has wreaked a particular havoc against African American and Latino communities. Members of these groups are disproportionately front-line workers—as food service workers, meatpacking plant employees, health-care aides, and service industry workers. In some cities and states, Black Americans have been more than twice as likely to contract and die from the virus. The racial disparity highlights entrenched racial fault lines that meet at the intersections of race, socioeconomic status, gender, neighborhood, and health care. The racial toll has been particularly stark for people awaiting bail, awaiting trial, and serving time.