This image from surveillance video shows a suspect walking toward a midtown Manhattan office building on July 28, 2025. Four people were shot and killed before the suspect took his own life.

In July of 1967, when I was 10 years old and race riots were breaking out in cities across the U.S., I saw a Life magazine cover photograph of a young Black boy lying in a Newark, New Jersey, street. He had been shot, caught in police crossfire, and a stream of blood ran from his body onto the street.

I didn’t understand why there were race riots at all back then. I recall only being scared and thinking, “Could this........

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