Black Voices

Fall 2020

It seems safe to say our country is nearing peak polarization. Of course, we ought to be careful about making these kinds of judgments, because it seemed we were near the peak a year ago—and then we found out it could get much worse. The pandemic forced most of us to stay inside our homes throughout the spring and part of the summer, and during those months, most of our contact with other people was mediated by screens and by social-media algorithms designed to make us angry. At this point, most every subject, no matter how banal it once seemed, is now charged with political tension, including health data, the postal service, and school calendars. For a time this was even true about the act of grocery shopping.

Nowhere is the polarization more intense than on the subject of race. Polling data now tells us that June’s Black Lives Matter protests constituted the largest wave of demonstrations in American history, with somewhere between 15 million and 26 million participants…

Editorial

• Across the Great Divide, By Nick Tabor

Interviews

• Fr. Samuel Davis

• Matushka Julitssa Davis

• Ahmad Williams

• Ronald Rosaliere

• Femi Outlade

• Doybin Teriba

• Brandon Dawson