Every year for the last six, we’ve commemorated the key dates of the COVID-19 saga.
March 11, when the World Health Organization officially declared the novel coronavirus to be a global pandemic.
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March 13, when the US government declared a nationwide emergency and we started hearing about “two weeks to flatten the curve.”
March 16, the day New York City closed its schools and locked down most businesses.
The standard timeline, though, obscures some of the anniversaries that we urgently must remember.
On May 26, with New York City and many states still in lockdown mode, the protests sparked by the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis began in earnest.
The protests swelled and many descended into riots, spreading throughout the country.
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