[042120] dearly beloved, can we *not* gather...
together to get thru this thing called life?
COVID19.CULTURE:
black music culture breaks instagram during pandemic: Babyface and Teddy Riley’s epic battle [BET]
black sports culture boosts sports television during pandemic: the Jordan documentary aka The Last Dance nearly doubles the network’s previous record for original programming [Jason Owens]
hip hop and R&B rule pop charts during pandemic ⤵️: DaBaby Projected to Dethrone The Weeknd on Billboard 200 Album chart [Sophie Caraan]
No Puerto Rican Day parade, no Pride, no Celebrate Israel parade [Associated Press]
music + design: Westside Gunn + Virgil Abloh talk shared history, coming back from coronavirus, and being ‘best in class’ [Corban Goble]
context: San Francisco’s Mission District hit hardest of all SF neighborhoods [Dominic Fracassa]
coronavirus retail: the massive fundraising effort that saved the oldest black bookstore in America [Morgan Jenkins]
😷🥴: state of Georgia at odds with city of Atlanta ⤵️
a 100-minute Zoom: Common on a group call with 130,000 California prisoners in their cells [Rebecca Keegan, Peter Kiefer]
digital memory: books, mixtapes, videos — the In Their Honor Project supports those who have lost loved ones to COVID-19 [Denayja Reese]
work: these places are still hiring [Eri Miyagi]
Apple and Google’s coronavirus app: it will trace your contacts with others [Will Oremus]
🤔and on that note: wth is an “immunity passport”? [Andrew Joseph]
loneliness: how some black and brown folks are navigating it right now ⤵️ [@queerquarantine]
cancelled games looming: the NBA holds back more players’ pay [Bryan Toporek]
recent reads + looks + listens
‘welcome to ballroom… DJ, pump the beat’ ⤵️
renegade dance creator Jalaiah Harmon: the renegade teen queen on her future + dreams [Jewel Wicker]
a predicament of the Asian-American writer: ‘to fear that both your existence and your interpretation of that existence will always be read the wrong way.’ [Jia Tolentino]
‘the most reliable hitmaker in America’: how Post Malone became pop’s king of heartbreak [Kelefa Sanneh]
sing along: on her way to going solo, the lead singer of Alabama Shakes experimented with genre and figured out living without shame [Amanda Petrusich]
it ain’t just for the 1%: clean beauty and “green” beauty have roots in Black and Brown communities [Jessica DeFino]
sokkoritang 소꼬리탕: Korean style oxtail soup! [Maangchi]
read Stephanie Jones-Rogers: she shuts down the notion that white women were passive witnesses of slavery in her award-winning book [Nathan Deuel]
watch archivist/HRDteam member Syreeta Gates: there’s a new documentary about NYC’s book world ⤵️
throwback reads + looks + listens
Prince and Spike Lee: their friendship and shared defiance [Julian Kimble]
the art of decision-making: ‘life choices aren’t just about what you want to do; they’re about who you want to be’ [Joshua Rothman]
oh + also
Sugarcane magazine is curating ‘artists [who] document our new life, creative masks, and techniques to survive a brand new world'.’ it’s wild amazing at their insta
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this is your newsletter. diverse work curated by a diverse team for a diverse readership during this wild era known as #quarantinelife. in this mix you see work from writers you know (and some you don’t). work from creators of color. from women writers. and LGBQTI creators. basically storytelling curated with the idea that the many segments of our multiverse are equally interesting and important.…after a long hiatus, we’re back. 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.
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Danyel Smith || Elliott Wilson || Darian Harvin
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