As I write this post, it’s been one year since George Floyd was killed, sparking all kinds of protests nationwide and bringing attention to racist police brutality, systemic racism, and the importance of recognizing how Black lives have been devalued. And those protests were on a scale we really hadn’t seen before. It was a …
After George Floyd’s murder, thousands and thousands of people protested across the country, many demanding changes in policing. Similar to what happened after Michael Brown Jr. was killed in Ferguson, Missouri, by a police officer, a lot of white people opened their eyes to the fact that the police endanger the lives of Black people …
Despite still being trapped in a pandemic, the world is clearly coming back to life, because we have decided that after 13 months, we are done with COVID. Never mind that COVID hasn’t quite signaled that it’s ready to exit. Or that it’s done with us. And, in America, a return to normal means two …