In the wake of the largest workplace roundup of immigrants in a decade, a conservative Tennessee town sees a shift in its residents’ attitude toward undocumented immigrants.
Each killing is a local story that roils with a strange potential: Will it find a place in the city’s consciousness, or the nation’s? Or will it be passed over?
The outcry against violence was delivered with a mix of pop sentiment, corporate coöperation, and an awareness of the socioeconomic privilege that allows certain voices to be heard louder than others.
In the days leading up to the Stoneman Douglas students’ return to school, the movement for gun control they had started had grown far beyond Florida, out in the world.