LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
weeks just before the team started producing this issue, the world was reeling from video footage of three different acts of physical and mental violence committed against Black men in different parts of America: Ahmaud Arbery, gunned down by private citizens while jogging in southern Georgia; George Floyd, killed by a Minneapolis police officer after being pinned to the ground with a knee have been enough) to spark a national conversation about the massive stress and the daily, enduring dangers of being Black in America—how to “live free in [a] black body,” as writer Ta-Nehisi Coates once put it. But considered together—and considered along with COVID-19’s devastatingly high toll on communities of color and the March killing of a Black woman named Breonna Taylor by the Louisville police—they lit a fire so bright and furious that nobody with eyes to see could look at the world in quite the same way.
