Seeing the Social Justice Forest for the Trees: National Reparations Agenda Advances Through Local Initiatives
Have you ever heard the term "You cannot see the forest for the trees"? It's an idiom rooted in the challenge of not seeing the whole of a situation because one is only considering a part of it. In the context of reparations for African Americans, this means that we cannot focus solely on the national conversation and ignore the important work being done at the local level.
