“Black lives matter.” “Hands up, don’t shoot.” And of course, those three words that encapsulate so much: “I can’t breathe.” Just a week ago, Fred Shapiro, editor of the Yale Book ...

We are asking for breath. “I can’t breathe!” cried Eric Garner before dying on July 10, 2014 at the hands of the police in Staten Island, New York. “I can’t breathe!” cried Freddy Gray ...