Ayanna Pressley on anti-Blackness

In this Q&A, the Boston congresswoman talks about the pendulum swinging back since 2020, and how the movement for equity and justice can press forward

Below you’ll find an edited interview I conducted with Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley, who was speaking to me from Boston earlier this month. She recognizes that the pendulum of popular support for racial equity and justice is swinging backwards. But she doesn’t see that as a reason to demand less. “For people to say ‘it's too much, it's too much’; this …