The nation and Nashville have come through a horrific weekend of social outrage. Like many American citizens, we all are outraged over the recent police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Breonna Taylor’s murder by Louisville police, and the vigilante killing of Ahmaud Abery in Georgia. The egregious images of these killings are not a new reality for black communities; nonetheless, they are shockingly regressive to a history of public lynchings of black people fueling the current uprising in American cities as protesters call for justice.