"The Year That Was and Wasn’t"

"People, largely, remained terrible…but this time around, people, now more than ever, refused to stand for it. The hunger stirred up by the #BlackLivesMatter movement refused to be satiated with crumbs of presidential candidate promises. Meetings were made, rallies were attended, and the cause is now impossible to ignore, especially for the next POTUS. The women violated by Bill Cosby got the attention they deserved on the cover of New York magazine—35 faces and hearts ripped open for us to consume, each story basking in the light of the truth, Cosby’s fate near-sealed. Answerability isn’t novel, of course, but the swell of social media—a sea of justice and care—has fortified its power like never before."

http://www.themorningnews.org/article/2015-the-year-that-was-and-wasnt 

I loveee this summary: people are still terrible, but we aren't apathetic about it anymore.