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Coronavirus-related racism seeps into U.S.

As the U.S. panics over potential coronavirus outbreaks, racism and discrimination against Asian Americans is on the rise. Restaurants and businesses with Asian or Asian American owners from California to New York report seeing drops in sales. Weijia Jiang speaks to people in New York’s Chinatown, including the owner of a popular restaurant who says he has lost over a million dollars since people began fearing coronavirus transmission.

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How to talk to kids about racism

Headlines across the country referred to Monday’s stock market plunge as "Black Monday," one of many ways racism has become entwined in American culture. CBS News contributor Ibram X. Kendi won a national book award for his book tackling America's long history with racism. Kendi is now teaming up with author Jason Reynolds to rework it for a younger audience, "Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-Winning Stamped from the Beginning." The duo joins "CBS This Morning" to preview the book, aimed at readers aged 12 and older.

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