“History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.” — Maya Angelou

The Carver community is living through history. Right now.

Founded in 1938, named after George Washington Carver, always led by Black leaders, we trust our community will have the courage to face this painful time in our history, remember it, and support those who are protesting peacefully to help ensure we need not live it again.

We all have a responsibility to be the leaders we hoped we could be and to continue to strive for the justice, respect, and equality that every one of us deserves.

With the coronavirus crisis still placing a magnifying lens over the deep inequities in American society, we possess an opportunity to face longstanding injustices that could allow us to go beyond just mourning our collective failures or patching over them with emergency measures.

Long after COVID-19, American society will continue to be diverse, but it doesn’t have to be divided or unequal. This pandemic will continue to force us to change, adapt, and rebuild. As we do so, we need to transform our world with racial equity at its center.