July Was the Cruelest Month | Sojourners

July Was the Cruelest Month

By Angela Denker
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Aug 3, 2015
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July is the cruelest month, with apologies to T.S. Eliot. ... 

A movement has arisen in the past year to protest police brutality and the unjust killing of African Americans — an uncomfortable realization that the dream of civil rights has gone unrealized in a still-racist America. It's called Black Lives Matter, but in the summer of 2015, life seems cheap.

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