Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) in the US Capitol on January 30, 2020, in Washington, DC. | Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images

It would allocate $1.5 billion to organizations focused on this work, but it faces an uphill battle for passage.

Across the country, the coronavirus pandemic has disproportionately hit communities of color, specifically affecting black, Native, and Latino Americans at higher rates than whites.

In Mississippi, for example, while black people comprise 37 percent of the population, they make up 52 percent of Covid-19 deaths. And in multiple Southwestern states, the Navajo Nation has seen one of the highest rates of coronavirus cases in the country.

These disparities are the result of ongoing discrimination within the health care system and longstanding inequities around access to vital resources such as housing and even water. A new bill from Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Rep.