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This is a watershed moment in history that could change everything. How could we consider writing about leadership programmes, workforce, educational levels, clinical hours, or the like, at a time like this? We are almost half-way through the 2020 ‘International Year of the Nurse and Midwife’(IYNM) and already what might once have been the solid ground of an IYNM editorial is now shifting sands under our feet.

Nurses from diverse backgrounds, countries, and structural positions, but with a shared global concern, have come together here to call for an immediate challenging and dismantling of the views, behaviours, and organizational structures that have supported, perpetuated, and enabled the racism, injustices, and inequities that still pervade much of nursing and health care. Such racism has often made services and organizations unwelcoming and unsafe places for Black Asian and Minority Ethnic/Black …