Last month the national unemployment rate fell to 3.7 percent—a low it had not reached since October 1969, two months after Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon.
In December 2013, a year into his second term, Barack Obama identified“dangerous and growing inequality and lack of upward mobility” as “the defining challenge of our time.”
The latest acquittal of a white police officer in St. Louis reflects a pattern of policing that denies equal citizenship to the area’s black residents.
