Collectively scientists can again Black Lives Matter and enhance race justice

This yr, scientists took motion to help Black Lives Matter. Let 2021 be your yr to advance race justice, says Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

By Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

ON MY desk in my house workplace I’ve a number of objects that preserve me targeted and impressed. I’ve an autographed photograph of myself with Star Trek: Discovery star Sonequa Martin-Inexperienced, the primary Black girl to helm a Star Trek sequence. Subsequent to that, I’ve a Barbie Uhura within the field, autographed by Nichelle Nichols, the Black girl who performed the primary Black Star Trek character, together with an autographed, black-and-white image of Nichols in costume. I even have a woodcarving of a well-known Toni Morrison quote, “The operate of freedom is to free somebody …