The White House opioid summit was very white

The White House convened a summit on the opioid epidemic Thursday, where drug addiction experts and victims asked Trump administration officials about what was being done to curb a crisis that kills an average of 115 people nationwide every day. People harmed in some capacity by the epidemic spoke directly with cabinet secretaries, but there was a noticeably absent voice: those of people of color.

The lack of racial diversity is an increasingly obvious trend in the Trump administrat...