Volcanoes and Americans Dealing with Race

“The Kilauea Volcano in Hawaii erupted on May 17, 2018, at 4:17 a.m., spewing lava more than a thousand feet in the air. Homes and other structures in the wake of the lava flow and the eruption’s related ongoing events were destroyed. But geologists say that the volcano has been erupting almost continuously since 1983.1 One eruption is followed by a period of calm … maybe another year or so of quiet that allows people to relax and forget … and then another eruption.

Because volcanoes are formed when a tectonic plate shifts over a hot spot in the layers of earth beneath the surface, we…