[042820] strength + guidance 🙏🏾
⏩all that we're wishin' for our friends
COVID19.CULTURE:
instagram’s on-quarantine twerkathon: it’s getting sexy after dark — the experience is virtual, but the spectacle and the moneymaking is very real [Bonsu Thompson]
trend continues: younger blacks and Latinos still dying of COVID-19 at higher rates in California [Alejandra Reyes-Velarde, Ben Poston, Tony Barboza]
👋🏾: ‘don't call my co-workers heroes as you wait for them to bag your carrot-cake muffins and face serum. they would trade places with you if they could’ [Karleigh Frisbie Brogan]
comic Sarah Cooper: she finds the funny in the dumb sh*t dude says 😵⤵️ [Regina R. Robertson]
😷: photo essay of Atlanta, Georgia during the coronavirus lockdown ⤵️ [Josiah Rundles]
this year’s Ramadan: extra complicated for Muslim healthcare workers on the coronavirus frontlines [Kevin Baxter]
‘the politics of the occult’: is that what we are witnessing and participating in? [John Stoehr]
with some restrictions: NBA players will be allowed to return to team training facilities starting Friday [Associated Press]
praise and worship: at a social distance ⤵️ [Casey Cep]
dare we hope: in race for a coronavirus vaccine, a University of Oxford group leaps ahead [David D. Kirkpatrick]
North Carolina: scenes from a coronavirus Easter ⤵️ [Kennedi Carter]
Kylie Jenner, makeup-free: her coronavirus outing brings ‘blackfishing’ chatter back [Ian Spiegelman]
a conversation about challenges: how the pandemic is affecting the Navajo Nation [Sharon Nelson, Amy Horowitz]
zoom university: why the reopening of college campuses in the fall is a national priority [Christina Paxson]
seventeen tips: fighting climate change at home [Megan Barber]
family, community, school: for low income students, troubles mount during distance learning [Nidia Bautista]
recent reads + looks + listens
#blackAF: “the kind of thing an artist or a businessman might say about his work or his behavior in order to foreclose critique” [Doreen St. Felix]
new Michelle Obama documentary: premieres May 6 ⤵️
history: a mob of whites burn down an African-American newspaper — more than a hundred black townspeople are killed in aftermath [Caleb Crain]
history + migration: “Between 1945 and 1986, the proportion of Māori living in New Zealand cities grew from 26 percent to nearly 80 percent [Photo District News] ⤵️
more than just a vegan TikTok star: Allow Tabitha Brown to formally introduce herself [Michael Blackmon]
throwback reads + looks + listens
from 2017: Rihanna arguably brought the du-rag back to the fashion world [Antwaun Sargent, 2017]
podcast: Pulitzer Prize winning essayist Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah [Longform]
“daaaamnnnnnnnn, 25 years went fast”: Friday was released in April 1995 [Tamantha Gunn] ⤵️
oh + also
Travis and Cudi connect: a playlist:
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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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