Wondering If Radical Movements Work? Look to the Arab Spring.

I fled to the Middle East to escape racism, but now I see that our oppression is forever linked to those oppressed abroad. Here’s why.

Artist Aziz Asmar paints a mural depicting George Floyd in the Binnish district in Idlib province, Syria on June 2, 2020. Photo: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

As a Black woman born and raised in Brooklyn, the experience of having police regularly invade my neighborhood was part of the reason I…