What does liberty actually mean when the ground beneath us still feels so fundamentally unstable? If you are looking for an instrumental soundtrack to help untangle that very question, look no further than the Washington, D.C.-based string trio, The String Queens.
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a viral photo of a lone Black woman surrounded by members of the white supremacist group Patriot Front, while riding on a Metro train in Washington, D.C., captures the full regressive and divisive scope of America's current zeitgeist.