One year after the murder of George Floyd, the reckoning over race in America continues. The mass protests that followed the killing of Floyd included calls for the end of policing as we know it and demanded that we reexamine systemic inequities. Sports leagues and media companies prominently joined a cascade of anti-racist commitments. Even the NFL, notorious for its resistance to social justice efforts, declared themselves allies. A year later, we look back with one of our region’s most famously frank athletes and ask the question: How much has actually changed in America?
About the speakers: Northwest Newsmakers series. She is the co-founder of The Evergrey, is a recent fellow at the Henry M. Jackson Foundation and Harvard's Nieman Foundation for Journalism, and is a former columnist at The Seattle Times and GeekWire. She is currently an advisor to Braver Angels and the author of an upcoming guide to staying curious in divided times. She lives in Seattle with her husband, Jason, and two kids.