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EDITOR'S NOTE
In this issue of C2Change Magazine C2CHANGE IS AN ONLINE RACIAL JUSTICE PUBLICATION CHANNELING CREATIVE CHANGE.
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e've said goodbye to an unforgettable year called 2020—and was it not a year! A year which saw asylum seekers separated from their families and children placed into cages. ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) rounding up brown-colored individuals and detaining them for deportation. Divisiveness and hate rhetoric prompting racially motivated attacks and mass shootings. And a global pandemic which ravaged and wreaked havoc on American communities of color as it sickened and killed hundreds-of-thousands of Americans via a poorly implemented government response. Today, April 2, 2021, C2Change relaunched with a year of comparison: 1962 vs. 2020. Paying tribute to publications like the Chicago Defender, JET, EBONY, and the NAACP’s The CRISIS that informed, entertained, and documented Black life through our eyes—their reporting on the lives and struggles of every-day Black Americans proving to be both profound and immeasurable.
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In this “Soul of America” issue, we compare Black life, Black struggles, Black injustices, and the Black hope of 1962 to that of 2020. Readers will find the pressing issues of today—civil rights, voting rights, education, employment, housing, police brutality, and judicial justice (or injustice)—not too dissimilar from those of 1962. We also honor the lives of a Supreme, Mary Wilson; an actress icon, Cicely Tyson; and the lives lost in 2020 that contributed to our community in profound ways. And from the publisher, after receiving messages of hate from launching the magazine—including many using religion to mask their hate—the publisher penned the provocative article “The White Church and Civil Rights" as told from events in 1962 and today. (By the way, have you ever heard of hate messages, or protests, from launching a cooking, teen, or maternity magazine?) And as always, as we strive to channel creative change, I’ll end my so-called rant with: Each generation should push for the continual change and betterment of our communities for the next generation. C2Change strives to provide information for communities of color to use in that push.
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