Goodman Community Center educator grapples with inequality amid Black Lives Matter movement

At times, it’s mind-boggling to consider the things that have happened this year.

By Howard Hayes
At times, it’s mind-boggling to consider the things that have happened this year. This time last year I was listening to Bill Withers and hoping one day to see him in concert. Fast-forward to 2020 and I’m listening to the late Withers’ music to cope with a pandemic and the cruelties of racial injustice.
I am an educator at the Goodman Community Center, where we’ve been doing in-person programming four days a week (with limited youth) since June 22. I work with kids only a few years younger than 23-year-old Elijah McClain, who