Solutions of the Year: 3 Responses to the Nation's Reckoning on Racial Injustice – Next City
December 8, 2020 COVID-19, a deadly pandemic that has disproportionately struck Black and Brown communities. We are centuries into the equally pernicious plague of police violence toward unarmed Black Americans. Both realities are grounded in structural white supremacy. Both have made plain the pervasive inequity baked into the American Experiment. As our moderator, Andre Perry, says in his book, “Know Your Price,” “The deliberate devaluation of Blacks and their communities has had very real, far-reaching, and negative economic and social effects. … But there is nothing wrong with Bla...