Black Lives Matter, George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Rayshard Brooks . . . .

Ibram X. Kendi, “Who Gets to Be Afraid in America?” and “American Nightmare.”

Cornel West, “A Boot Is Crushing American Democracy.”

Democracy Now, “Uprising and Abolition: Angela Davis on Movement Building, ‘Defund the Police,’ and Where We Go from Here.”

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, “Of Course There Are Protests. The State Is Failing Black People.”

Roxane Gay, “Remember, No One Is Coming to Save Us.”

Jeet Heer, “The Fire This Time.”

Melvin Rogers, “We Should Be Afraid, But Not of Protesters.”

Matthew Dessem, “Police Erupt in Violence Nationwide.”

Jamelle Bouie, “The Police Are Rioting. We Need to Talk About It.”

Adam Gabbatt, “Protests about Police Brutality Are Met with Wave of Police Brutality across US.”

Joshua Clover, “66 Days.”

Barbara Ehrenreich, “A Journalist Marked by Police Violence.”

Greg Afinogenov, “Everything Could Be Free.”

Jamilah King, “The Summer of 2020 Is Going to Be Long, Violent, and Necessary.”

Mara Gay, photographs by Jordan Gale, “The Nation’s Largest Police Force Is Treating Us as an Enemy.”

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