Can Biden fulfill his pledge to advance racial justice?

In his inaugural address, President Biden pledged to make racial equality a central focus of his presidency. “A cry for racial justice some 400 years in the making moves us,” he said. “The dream of justice for all will be deferred no longer.”

Racial equality has been at the forefront of the nation’s attention duuring the past year as the country has lived through a global pandemic that has disproportionately affected people of color, a massive protest movement against police violence and an insurrection at the Capitol carried out by...