Civil rights era

COMMENTARY

After the civil rights era, white Americans failed to support systemic change to end racism. Will they now?

BY: - August 27, 2020

The first wave of the Black Lives Matter movement, which crested after the 2014 police killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, had the support of less than half of white Americans. Given that Americans tend to have a very narrow definition of racism, many at that time were likely confused by the juxtaposition of Black-led […]