In the two months since George Floyd`s death at the hands of police, Americans have marched, protested, rallied, and spoken out about the need for systemic change. It`s the type of activism that the late U.S. Representative John Lewis, a key figure in the civil rights movement who died last month of pancreatic cancer, described as “good trouble.” Lewis sensed that this time — with the massive scale, global impact, and inclusivity of the Black Lives Matter movement — we are on the precipice of change. “There will be no turning back,” he told CBS This Morning in June. What Lewis understood, having marched down the road for justice himself, was that it`s long past time for the United States to...
|
