"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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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 at the root of the nation’s institutions despite the gains of the civil rights …
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 …
