Time - USA (2020-12-21)

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medicine and democracy: equality. By their example, health care

workers this year guarded more than lives.

The shared experience of watching George Floyd die was proof,

if anyone needed it, that Black lives are still not treated as equal in

America. In the wake of Floyd’s killing surged a wave of outrage that

was harnessed by organizers, both veteran and newly energized, to

bring millions to the streets and spotlight the inequities in a world

that claims to be far better than it is. The movement for racial justice

found its voice in multitudes: a mother in Kenosha delivering her

frank report to Joe Biden; a sister in Paris calling for police account-

ability in her brother’s death. If the truth they guard—lived truth—

can bolster the structures of the society that emerges from the trauma

of this extraordinary year, it might also redeem it. —karl vick

RACIAL-JUSTICE ORGANIZERS

of the Year