Black IN the Pandemic: A PERSONAL REFLECTION OF COVID-19

Raegan K. Johnson

Black in the Pandemic: A Personal Reflection of COVID-19 utilizes audio, recordings, photographs and interviews to highlight the various ways in which the virus has impacted the mental health of different members of the Black community.

The subjects of this project include a multigenerational group to document the complex effects of COVID-19, from quarantine to present day. The underlying theme of “connectivity” is critical to the execution of the project and reveals a shared plight among the group interviewed.

Raegan Kelly Johnson is a native of Gulfport, Mississippi residing in Oxford, Mississippi. She is a second-year MA student in the ARCH Dalrymple III Department of History at The University of Mississippi where she serves as a Graduate Assistant with the Department of Archives and Special Collections.

Raegan is a 2019 alumna of Tougaloo College where she graduated Summa Cum Laude with a Bachelor’s in History. She is a proud member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated, a Mellon Mays Fellow and business owner of graphiX Designs LLC.

Her research interests include Black women in the Academy and the “Disneyfication” of society.