[031720] duty calls: the HRDlist returns
we are in this together
after a long hiatus, we’re back. some curated news and culture from the team that brought you HRDCVR. in these wild times, we are trying to do something — as our colleague Andrew says — creative and useful. when we started this newsletter, way back when, one of our earliest newsletters was a #Ferguson special edition. this quarantine lockdown has us feeling a familiar fear and strength and commitment to a better future. please be safe and careful and creative and well. point us in great directions. send us your work. send us links. send us your challenges, and your joys. and if you have not, please register to vote immediately. not sure if you’re set up? go here ✌🏾
19 TOUGH COVID-19 THINGS
We are so addicted to the concept of individual responsibility that we have a fragmented health-care system, a weak social safety net, and a culture of averting our eyes from other people’s physical vulnerability. — Meghan O’Rourke
[coronavirus resource center] at Johns Hopkins
[Bay Area] “shelter in place” — five counties shut down all but completely
[Miami] similar to Bay Area
[beware false information] “misleading messages (are) spreading on cellphone networks, among friends and colleagues”
[running list] of cancelled/postponed cultural events
[a dozen black on-screen characters] who survived the worst of the worst
[monitoring situation] Essence Fest as of now proceeding as scheduled; “also identifying and securing alternate dates”
[what Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez aka AOC is feeling] about all of this right now
[most scary + depressing] “the grim math of a coronavirus future”
[Italy] “We live as if a predator roams outside.”
[every coronavirus case in the U.S.] full map
[🙏🏾] workers who face greatest COVID-19 risk
[more work] “If they quarantine us where are we going to get money?”
[interactive map] state by state responses to vulnerable populations
[“complete list”] of Trump’s attempts to play down coronavirus
[Los Angeles] new takeout + delivery options
[one set of possibilities] for a simpler world ahead
[how did we get here?] hollowing out the government has endangered America.
artists: Dario Canul and Cosijoesa Cernas
sittin’ up in our rooms, so anxious
boo’d up, wanting to dance with somebody, yet also having one a ‘dem days
a playlist created by Elliott Wilson
screen
[The Plot Against America] “These six hours should freak you out”
[worth your time] the newish High Fidelity and the newish Party of Five
@gank_pansuay, oil, 60x90
newish reads + looks + listens
[Gabrielle Emanuel] on The Cruel Story Behind The 'Reverse Freedom Rides' [audio, too]
[Lang Whittaker] on The Grizz’ Ja Morant
[Darian Harvin] on “Black College Students Using An Age Old Tradition To Pay For School”
[Danyel Smith] on Lizzo’s “Truth Hurts”
throwback longish reads + looks + listens
[Jamaica Kincaid] “Girl” — and she reads it herself, here
[powerful women] talk about power
[Reginald Betts] on if a a felon can become an lawyer, or have a real second chance, period
it has been 25 years since Tupac’s Me Against The World
*Yung Joc voice* WE LOOOOOOVE TO SEE IT