[032420] everything must change
we have a different way of living now
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COVID19.CULTURE:
people are creating, providing, scratching and surviving during quarantine
what to do if you get an eviction notice [in Los Angeles] during coronavirus outbreak [Bianca Barragan]
a million masks initiative [GoFundMe]
D-Nice’s Club Quarantine is the personification of last-night-a-dj saved my life, and the resilience of black creativity [Jelani Cobb, Justin Tinsley]
‘If I’m going to get the coronavirus, I’m going to get it from an officer before I get it from an inmate.’ [Felipe De La Hoz]
how rich people are acting during the #COVID-19 quarantine [Beth Landman]
in our self-iso, video has replaced social life, and television grapples with a new reality [Doreen St. Félix]
a playlist for your WFH life, from Paris with love [Samira Cadasse]
newish reads + looks + listens
Netflix's Self-Made is inspired by the life of Madam C.J. Walker (and Annie Malone). keyword: inspired. [Nadra Nittle]
the remarkable sameness of The Weeknd [Amani Bin Shikhan]
does the dream of turning Texas blue depend on Latinx voters? [Stephania Taladrid]
Law & Order, Blacklist, Blue Bloods: how scripted crime shows exclude writers of color and miseducate the public about criminal justice [Color of Change]
the teen pundits and hype houses of TikTok [Taylor Lorenz]
Spike Lee’s Bamboozled is still sharp, stinging, and utterly vital [K. Austin Collins]
Gentefied explores queer brown love as well as anti-blackness in the Latinx community [Manuel Betancourt]
throwback reads + looks + listens
how Blac Chyna beat the Kardashians at their own game [Sylvia Obell]
that time in 2013 when Wax Poetics interviewed Mac Miller [Kyle Eustice]
‘To stave off depression and anxiety, I began binge-watching TV. But I could only elude the pressures of the real world for so long.’ [Julian Kimble]
boogie fever
bonus: THEEEE 15-hour club quarantine playlist — relive the epic moment
oh + also
subscribe to reporter Darian Harvin’s necessary Beauty IRL newsletter here. you’ll learn something new and valuable about the complicated world of beauty
read Danyel Smith on Queen & Slim director Melina Matsoukas
watch Elliott Wilson interview Drake
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…after a long hiatus, we’re back: curated news and culture from the team that brought you HRDCVR. in these wild times, we are trying to do something creative and useful. when we started this newsletter, way back when, one of our earliest issues was a #Ferguson special edition. this quarantine lockdown has us feeling a familiar fear and strength and commitment to a better future.
team HRDlist
Danyel Smith || Elliott Wilson || Darian Harvin
special thanks this issue to
and many others!