Isabel Wilkerson

Continuing its mission of creating a sense of belonging, Embrace Boston brought an array of events and panels to the city last week as part of the latest installment of its Embrace Ideas Festival.

Amid the tensions that brewed following the murder of George Floyd in 2020, Ava DuVernay read journalist Isabel Wilkerson’s book, “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents,” published that summer. The book, DuVernay admitted, had been sitting on her coffee table for a while before she decided to read it.