Across the US, families are having tough talks about racism
One night in late May, Wendy Bohon and her mom were piecing a puzzle together at the dining room table when they heard from the living room a news anchor's somber voice, prepping his audience for what they were about to see.
Bohon knew the general details of George Floyd's death in Minneapolis, the way his neck was pinned to the concrete by a white police officer for nearly eight minutes. But she hadn't yet watched the video that would soon ignite a national uprising. And she didn't know what her mom, a fifth-generation Virginian, might say about it.
The mother and daughter got up from the table, stood behind Bohon's dad in his rocking chair, and watched.
Her mom's reaction was immediate and visceral. "They murdered that man," she said, tears filling her eyes.
"For me, that was like, OK," said Bohon, a 44-year-old geologist who lives in Washington. "I see that we're on the same page. You're seeing what I'm seeing."
That moment
