An unprecedented year What a year, right? Over the last 12 months, we have watched the COVID-19 pandemic ravage not just our country, but our world.
To date, more than 2.7 million people have died worldwide, and more than 540,000 here in the United States. It is a pandemic unprecedented in more than a century.
But that wasn’t the only upheaval in 2020. The May 25 death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man, at the hands of Minneapolis police who knelt on his neck and back as he struggled and begged for breath, was streamed live on social media.
It set off unprecedented waves of protest against racism, led by Black Lives Matter and other social justice activists in cities across the country — including here in North Texas — that lasted