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    ENDING THE EPIDEMIC

    May 21, 2019 4 minutes
    By Tre’vell Anderson

    BY THE TIME ACTIVIST Phill Wilson stood in front of the International AIDS Conference in 2012 as an opening plenary speaker—immediately preceding then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton—he hoped the reason behind his founding the Black AIDS Institute had finally changed. Maybe by now, 13 years later, he thought, the amount of effort and resources put into ending the epidemic in Black communities would mirror that invested into white ones. But it was, unfortunately, still “a tale of two cities,” he said: the best of times for some, and the worst for others.

    Seven years after that address, as Wilson’s Los Angeles-based advocacy group celebrates its 20th anniversary, this

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