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We have begun to see progress against racial injustice. But even as we march, we must fight – and vote – for our very lives
The slow-motion execution of George Floyd has ignited an incandescent social movement. In every state and around the world, people of all colors, genders, and ages are coming together to march in fury and in hope, to renounce the past and redeem the future.
The animating cry of “Black Lives Matter!” was created by three Black female organizers in 2013, enraged and heartsick over the acquittal of the man who had murdered the 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. They and many other organizations and activists built a movement. The anger and optimism behind this movement echo similar seasons of protest against state-sanctioned brutality toward Black people, from Jimmie Lee Jackson, whose 1965 murder by Alabama state troopers inspired the Selma to Montgomery march, to the long list of unarmed Black women and men who have died at the hands of law enforcement and white vigilantes. Continue reading...