Juneteenth: Changing local politics, not just protests, vital for racial progress

ON a day meant to commemorate the end of slavery in Texas, consider this: Right now, there are more Black men under the control of the American criminal justice system than the number of those in bondage before the Civil War.

Chattel slavery may have ended, but the racial injustice underpinning the country’s history is ever present, most dramatically in the systems we rely on for safety.