TIME Magazine’s 2025 Impact Dinner spotlighted scholars, activists, and artists who spoke about what it means to remember, to tell the truth, and to the defend hard-won progress of the racial justice movement despite mounting political and cultural backlash. Center for Policing Equity co-founder and CEO Dr. Phillip Atiba Solomon was a featured speaker at this year’s event, which was themed “The Road to Justice” and coincided with the five-year anniversary of George Floyd’s murder. His killing by a Minneapolis police officer in 2020 sparked global protests and what many hoped would be a long-awaited reckoning with racism and police violence.
During his speech, Dr. Solomon noted that while the conviction of the involved officers offered a measure of accountability, it fell short of the deeper, systemic justice that protesters had called for. The goal, he suggested, was never to just see a few individuals imprisoned but to transform the conditions that allowed such violence in the first place.
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