For generations, the federal government sanctioned housing policies that allowed racial inequity to fester like an open wound and infect our systems. 

From the brutal lynching of Emmett Till to the heinous dragging death of James Byrd to the violent shooting of Ahmaud Arbery, racially-motivated hate violence remains a long-standing and persistent threat in our country.

More than three and an half years after the mass shooting in El Paso, the perpetrator pled guilty in February 2023 to the murder of 23 people who were shopping at a Walmart on the morning of Saturday, August 4.