Isaiah Rashad, The House is Burning, and Black Consciousness

*This piece was originally published on Rock the Bells in June of 2021.

“I have come to believe that we’re integrating into a burning house.”

-Dr. Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.

This time last summer black people were collectively mourning the loss of another victim of police violence. The murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor — and later, Nina Pop — sparked the heat of a summer that seemed to drag on as name after name of those slain were listed on our twitter feeds, never…