Falling down -- and getting up again

Trust Erudite Partner to find the material meaning behind a scary label. In her latest opus for Tom Dispatch, she asks "Can making Black Lives Matter rescue a failing state?"

Sure as can be, rescue by all of us together is needed as the many plagues of the omni-crisis -- white supremacy, Trump and his GOPers, the coronavirus, and a crashed economy -- grind on. Against every possible obstacle for 400 years, Black citizens have dreamed and enfleshed visions of justice and freedom. What a time!