How do we change America?

[vc_empty_space height=”10px”][vc_media_type_category]The quest to transform this country cannot be limited to challenging its brutal police.

The national uprising in response to the brutal murder of George Floyd, a forty-six-year-old black man, by four Minneapolis police officers, has been met with shock, elation, concern, fear, and gestures of solidarity. Its sheer scale has been surprising.

Across the United States, in cities large and small, streets have filled with young, multiracial crowds who have had enough. In the largest uprisings since the Los Angeles rebellion of 1992, anger and bitterness at racist and unrestrained police violence, abuse, and even murder have finally spilled over in every corner of the United States.

Read How do we change America?, published in The New Yorker on June 8, 2020

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