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Seven Journalists Talk About Covering a Year of National Trauma Slate 3/5/2021 Julia Craven © Provided by Slate Refrigeration trucks being used as a temporary morgue are parked outside Bellevue Hospital in New York on April 5. Bryan R. Smith/AFP via Getty Images
As the world began to shut down, the overarching sentiment was things wouldn’t go on like this: Whether it was the president’s fanciful message about a two-week lockdown or public health experts’ vision of an escalating, focused campaign to beat back the virus, the situation was definitely going to keep changing, somehow. Instead, all the different optimistic visions were replaced by open-ended stasis, immense loss, and extreme isolation. Refrigerated trucks turned into disaster morgues sat on New York street corners last spring, while U-Hauls outside of a local funeral home housed the dead who couldn’t be preserved. Neither cohort could be honored or enshrined by loved ones.
As the world began to shut down, the overarching sentiment was things wouldn’t go on like this: Whether it was the president’s fanciful message about a two-week lockdown or public health experts’ vision of an escalating, focused campaign to beat back the virus, the situation was definitely going to keep changing, somehow. Instead, all the different optimistic visions were replaced by open-ended stasis, immense loss, and extreme isolation. Refrigerated trucks turned into disaster morgues sat on New York street corners last spring, while U-Hauls outside of a local funeral home housed the dead who couldn’t be preserved. Neither cohort could be honored or enshrined by loved ones.
To My Daughter, With Love
Mother-daughter bonds within the Black community can be powerful counters against systemic oppression. We invited four moms to share their wisdom in open letters to their daughters.
A young girl during a protest on the Juneteenth Holiday in Los Angeles, last year.Credit.Christian Monterrosa/EPA, via Shutterstock
By Patrice Peck
March 2, 2021
“I thought about how I’d explain to my African baby girl that Black women are severely unprotected and unsupported.” Ten Pittmon, artist, writer, small business owner and mother
[In Her Words is available as a newsletter.
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Last September, an unfamiliar sight distracted Nala Pittmon, age 2, from the picture book she was reading. Her mother was crying.
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