This time last year, the world as we knew it looked quite different than it does today. And although issues like police violence against people of color aren’t new, the murder of George Floyd, Breyona Taylor and so many other Black Americans jolted our country in new ways last summer.
Stateside wanted to spend some time thinking about the activism that has shaped the past few decades, and the many parallels and differences between the civil rights movement of the 1960s and today’s movement for black lives.