July 8, 2016

AERA continues to mourn the senseless killings in our nation. The most recent loss of innocent lives—two black men killed within days of each other in Baton Rouge and Minnesota, followed by a violent rampage directed against law enforcement officials in Dallas—is a horrifying message that we must confront as educators, leaders, and citizens of goodwill. The above drawing by Bill Mauldin of President Lincoln weeping at the time of President Kennedy’s assassination in 1963 is as sadly compelling today as it was then. —Felice J. Levine, Executive Director