Editor’s Note

s I am writing these words, we are still in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, and parts of the United States are, unfortunately, heading in the wrong direction. Over the past several months, our lives have changed in ways that we could scarcely have imagined even a short time ago. As we all started coming to terms with the new normal of COVID, the brutal killing of George Floyd ignited the eversmoldering embers of racial injustice in our