Here in New Jersey, on this Martin Luther King Day 2021 we are forced to process two contradictory narratives born of our enduring ambivalence about race that has haunted our nation and our state from when it was a colony that relied heavily on slavery.
On Jan. 20, with President-elect Joe Biden and Senator Kamala Harris expected to be sworn in as President and Vice President, we will see the unprecedented elevation of a woman of color to the second highest office of the land.
Yet,…
