Ike Bailey ’95: ‘George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and One Journalist’s Painfully Honest Self-Examination on Racism’

Protests in response to George Floyd’s death roil the country; at the same time, the coronavirus pandemic continues to disproportionately affect black communities. Journalists working to cover these events face a longstanding question—how can they effectively navigate the complexities of race? Journalist Ike Bailey ’95 starts with the acknowledgement of his own complex relationship with race and cautions that no one in the United States is immune to white supremacy.