Las grietas de América

Two hundred and fifty kilometers, just three hours by road, is the distance that separates two graves: one in Baltimore and the other in Charlottesville. Freddie, a young black man from the poorest neighborhood in Baltimore, is killed by the police a year and a half before Donald Trump comes to power. Months after his inauguration, hundreds of white supremacists march with torches through the streets of Charlottesville and Heather is murdered by a neo-Nazi. Not even three years have passed between the two deaths, but in that time the country - and probably the entire Western world - has changed forever. Amid the turmoil leading to George Floyd's death throes under the knee of a white police officer and the subsequent riots in Minneapolis, journalist Mikel Reparaz travels the United States in search of stories to help understand a society divided by racial conflict and the wounds of the past. A country in which racism continues to be a systemic problem and in which violence and the death of young blacks have become a recurring news item. Donald Trump's years in the White House have intensified the conflict to a point of social tension that seems to have no turning back. In this tour of the United States, the author delves into the roots of the problem and gives an account of the events and social movements that explain how the cracks that today crack the country opened.