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February 22, 2022
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Trudy Palmer
Cover Story Editor

This year, instead of featuring a slew of pieces celebrating Black people and their accomplishments during February, which is Black History Month in the United States, the Monitor redoubled its commitment to making Black perspectives a regular part of our coverage throughout the year – and not only for Black Americans but for all people of color in the U.S. and beyond.  

That approach seemed truest to the guidance Mary Baker Eddy gave when she founded the Monitor in 1908, writing in its first editorial, “The object of the Monitor is to injure no man, but to bless all mankind.” 

Striving to bless all mankind is, after all, a daily endeavor, not a monthlong one. It’s a state of being, really, a heart seeking – and finding – others’ humanity.

I found a description of this in the 2019 documentary “Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am,” which debuted seven months before the Nobel- and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist died.

Morrison describes her experience at an art fair in Vienna. Standing in a dark room with her hand touching a special mirror, she sees a woman approaching on the other side of it who puts her hand up and touches Morrison’s. 

“Neither one of us said a word,” Morrison explains. “Just interest, curiosity, and human connection.” 

She continues, “That experience says more and much about what I think I’m doing when I write. I know I’m not you. I know I don’t know you. But I know this,” she says, holding up her hand as if touching another’s. 

We hope you find in our pages opportunities year-round to touch hands with a wide range of people, to find in their perspectives “interest, curiosity, and human connection.”


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Pro-Russian activists react on a street as fireworks explode in the sky in the separatist-controlled city of Donetsk, Ukraine, after Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree recognizing two Russian-backed breakaway regions in eastern Ukraine as independent entities, Feb. 21, 2022.
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A deeper look

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The Wabanaki-Acadian Forest, made up of 32 species of hardwood and coniferous trees, is one of the most diverse temperate forests in the world.

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General view of The Museum of the Future in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on Feb. 22, 2022. The museum opened to the public on Tuesday.
( The illustrations in today’s Monitor Daily are by Jacob Turcotte. )

A look ahead

Thanks for joining us today. Come back tomorrow for a wide range of articles, including on-the-ground reporting from the Donbass region of Ukraine and a look at the guilty verdict on hate crimes for all three of the men convicted in the murder of Ahmaud Arbery.

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