This week marked the one-year anniversary of the murder of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police, a time defined by a subsequent international reckoning on racial justice, a debate about overhauling police departments and an election that brought social and cultural issues violently into the foreground. Mary C. Curtis, host of the Equal Time podcast and a CQ Roll Call columnist joins us on Political Theater to discuss where we are, where we’ve been and where we might be headed. Senate confirms Clarke to lead DOJ Civil Rights DivisionWhen eminently qualified Black women get smeared (or every day that ends in ‘y’)Senators keep DC statehood hope alive, despite uncertaintySorry, but ‘Gone With the Wind’ is not a history bookHouse passes Jan. 6 commission bill but legislation faces Senate hurdles
