Cries for justice — for American power systems to make even the most basic concession that Black lives matter — are not in any way new.
Over the past couple weeks, however, those cries have rung out with a long-overdue collective ferocity that has rarely been seen in this country. But to truly join the voices who’ve been demanding a safer future for Black Americans, we must also look back and fully reckon with the countless times non-Black Americans failed them.
That’s why HBO’s Atlanta’s Missing and Murdered: The Lost Children, a documentary released this past April about an infamous string of child murders in the ’80s, feels especially pertinent right now. It’s not only a timely reminder of how far back these conversations around race, injustice, and policing go. The documentary highlights exactly how the American law and order system enables and protects those who murder Black people, even when they’re children. Read more…
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