Natasha S. Alford, a CNN political analyst, is VP of Digital Content and a senior correspondent at theGrio. (CNN) When my mother was diagnosed with Covid-19, I was shocked to see her lesson planning instead of resting. A 27-year veteran of the Syracuse school district where she teaches, my mother, like many dedicated educators virtually teaching through the pandemic, was thinking of her kids first. The city where my mother teaches -- and where I grew up-- has one of the highest concentrations of Black and Latino poverty in the nation. This is what my mother contended with when deciding to either recover or log on.

Source: The Nation February 12, 2021 13:05 UTC