At a time when divide-and-conquer politics are exacerbating racial strife and economic inequality, there is hard evidence of an embryonic "Third Reconstruction" in America. The first Reconstruction briefly flourished after Emancipation, and the second Reconstruction ushered in meaningful progress in the civil rights era. But both were met by ferocious reactionary measures that severely curtailed, and in many cases rolled back, racial and economic progress. This Third Reconstruction is a profoundly moral awakening of justice-loving people united in a fusion coalition powerful enough to reclaim the possibility of democracy—even in the face of corporate-financed extremism.
AD: Tracy Matsue Loeffelholz