"Where Do We Go From Here?" the title of MLK's last book, describes how Black Americans felt about 2020, a year with COVID-19; job losses; the police-involved deaths of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd and others; and racist rhetoric coming from the highest places in the nation. But 2021 brings hope, with vaccines and the promise of more equitable policies with a new administration. This edition examines the unease from last year and in years past and lays out a vision as we move forward.
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Why Black History Month feels a little different in 2021 staff video, USA TODAY It’s an understatement to say that 2020 got on Black folks’ collective last nerve. We began the year with a COVID-19 pandemic that hit us harder than any other group of Americans and exposed the systemic inequities still …
I do not think it is possible to look back on our recent national elections and subsequent events and not conclude that our country is at a crossroads. That could be an alarming prospect but for the fact that it is not unfamiliar terrain. Without going too far back in history, I find the turbulent …
