At the same time, the heart-wrenching loss of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and countless other Black lives at the hands of current and former police officers galvanized a massive movement for systemic criminal justice reform. These health and economic crises were compounded by climate disasters that intensified long-standing racial and environmental injustices harming communities of color. The COVID-19 pandemic and accompanying economic downturn magnified deeply entrenched, structural racial inequalities in America’s health and economic systems that left too many of the most underserved even further behind. President Joe Biden entered the oval office during a critical moment in the enduring struggle for racial justice in America.
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