Heather McGhee Is Telling Untold Stories About Solidarity in a New Podcast

If you know anything about Heather McGhee, the former leader of progressive think tank Demos, and her 2021 best seller, The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together, you might know that the book takes a great interest in swimming pools. In McGhee’s telling, the fact that in the 1960s many communities decided to fill in their public swimming pools rather than integrate them is a reminder that racism sometimes makes people do illogical things. Ultimately, it’s a metaphor for the power of cross-racial solidarity—and what happens in its absence. “Racism is a really… Read Full Article