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The reflection began with a difficult year and turned toward the energy of a new activist moment. It asked whether public outrage would become a sustained movement for civil rights and a more humane public life.
The entry belongs to the Community's member writing archive because it shows how members connected personal hope to public events. It is preserved as a historical reflection, not as a current forecast.