The Black woman on the train did not look away. How much longer will we?

According to The 19th, a single image from the Fourth of July has struck a nerve: a lone young Black woman seated on a train crowded with White nationalists traveling to the nation's capital to mark America's two hundred fiftieth birthday. In a column for The Amendment, editor-at-large Errin Haines uses the photo as a starting point to reflect on what it captures about the country at this moment, and on how long the rest of us will keep looking away.

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