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Last May and into June, a movement — not a new movement — could not be ignored any longer. Following the murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, at the hands of law enforcement, the US erupted in protest and calls to end the systemic racism and inequality that has plagued the country for far too long. Ahead of Juneteenth<\/a>, a holiday celebrating the emancipation of African-Americans who had been enslaved in the United States in 1862, Black mixed media artist Morgan Harper Nichols spoke to HollywoodLife about the “small areas of progress” made in the last year, while also commenting on the continued need for more conversations and work to be done.<\/p>\n “It’s definitely a mixture of feelings… I definitely feel like a lot of good conversations have happened, but also just simultaneously feel like we should be much further along by now,” the poet told HollywoodLife in an EXCLUSIVE interview. “I definitely live with that tension all the time. And, I think that is a tension that a lot of Black people and marginalized people in general deal with. You’re grateful to see small areas of progress, but at the same time, it’s like, this should not take this long. It should not be that complicated.”<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n A post shared by Morgan Harper Nichols (@morganharpernichols)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n