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 Division
• When eminently qualified Black women get smeared (or every day that ends in ‘y’)
• Senators keep DC statehood hope alive, despite uncertainty
• Sorry, but ‘Gone With the Wind’ is not a history book
• House passes Jan. 6 commission bill but legislation faces Senate hurdles