Heather Heyer
Three years ago, 32-year-old paralegal Heather Heyer died. Not from an illness or accident. Instead, she paid the ultimate price while representing America’s best virtues, in a manner worthy of remembrance during this year’s alarming headlines, as our country struggles to reconcile its flawed racist past with its demographic future.
Heather, the great-granddaughter of coal miners, grew up in a working-class but resilient environment with her mother and brother in a trailer in rural, predominantly white Ruckersville, Virginia. After struggling to graduate from high school, she continued living at home, drifting into waitressing and bartending jobs. She and her family led, as famed journalist Joan Didion once aptly described in “Political Fictions,” “lives on that social and economic edge referred to, in Washington and among those whose preferred locus is Washington, as ‘out there.’”
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