Scholar Robin D.G. Kelley on How Today’s Abolitionist Movement Can Fundamentally Change the Country

We are living in a moment of change and upheaval, a time of immense pain and suffering, but also a time of hope and tremendous possibility. We are nearing four years of an incompetent but dangerous authoritarian — Donald Trump — occupying the most powerful office in the land. We are in the midst of the deadly coronavirus pandemic. And we are just four months away from presidential and congressional elections.

But we are also in a moment of great reckoning, because of the courage and determinati...