Decades of racist zoning and housing practices cast a long shadow in Seattle, sometimes literally. Wealthy white areas like those surrounding Discovery Park and the Arboretum enjoy ample tree cover and shade, while less-affluent neighborhoods are gray with concrete, trapping heat and extending high summer temperatures into the night.

President Joe Biden will award 19 individuals the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor. Civil rights icon Medgar Wiley Evers and South Carolina Democratic Rep. James Clyburn lead the list of recipients whose legacy of bravery and activism inspires generations.

Arguably, had Marilyn Mosby not had the courage to indict officers in the death of Freddy Gray, there would have been no precedent in indicting Derek Chauvin and his gang of thugs for killing Freddy Gray. Mosby, in other words, is a trailblazer.