Juneteenth Day celebrations (commemorating the day the last slaves in Texas learned they were free, two years after Emancipation) - Isabel Wilkerson

And more than that, it was the first big step the nation's servant class ever took without asking.

80 percent of white Americans hold unconscious bias against black Americans, bias so automatic that it kicks in before a person can process it, according to the Harvard sociologist David R. Williams.

unless people are willing to transcend their fears, endure discomfort and derision, suffer the scorn of loved ones and neighbors and co-workers and friends, fall into disfavor of perhaps everyone they know, face exclusion and even banishment, it would be numerically impossible, humanly impossible, for everyone to be that man.