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May 19, 2020

Janelle Monae: her new roles — on Amazon’s Homecoming and in the summer horror movie Antebellum are perfect for our unsettled moment [Yohana Desta]
🍑🍑🍑 is it safe to have sex right now? sexual + reproductive health resources guide [LOOM]
the undocumented restaurant workers who feed us are being forgotten: this is their struggle [Patricia Escárcega]
‘Bennett means everything to me’ — HBCUs have it even harder during the pandemic [Travis Loller]
how, sway? face masks went from necessity to personal style item overnight [Cam Wolf]
map: see which states are reopening and which are still shut down [the New York Times]
COVID-19 forcing us to fix racial health disparities: a convo with Dr. Clyde Yancy [Maya Dukmasova] ++ that’s Dr. Yancy ⤵️

Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine @NUFeinbergMed

🎧#COVID19 cases and deaths are disproportionately harming minority populations. @NMHheartdoc speaks to reasons for these outcomes and hope not for a new normal but a better one: tinyurl.com/y9osgp9h #healthequity #PublicHealthMatters

due to the pandemic: Hamilton — the film — is coming to your screens in July, more than a year early ⤵️

what I want the woman behind the counter to know: remember this the next time you order takeout [Min Jin Lee]
so many precursors to this pandemic: so many professionals shouted down [Mike Davis] ⬇️

recent reads + looks + listens

Black Voices, MySpace, Insta — blackness has defined social media from the start: the rich history behind #BlackTwitter [David J. Dennis Jr.]

Kehlani: she gets real about social media and celebrity culture [Danielle Kwateng-Clark] 🔻

Insecure Episode 6 recap: when it’s all said and done, you can go back to the family member who always held you down [Danielle Young]

because we really needed it? why the music of Michael Jordan’s Last Dance hit so hard [Julian Kimble]

#BEAUTYHEADLINES: Beautycon update + NY Governor Andrew Cuomo says salons re-open in Phase 2 + Meagan Good addresses skin-bleaching allegations [Darian Harvin, Dyana Larios] ⤵

where are Meghan + Harry? enjoying Tyler Perry’s art collection [Erin Vanderhoof]

taking transit while Black. hiking while Black. jogging while Black: we exist in a painful reality where it took almost 3 months for Ahmaud Arbery’s killers to be arrested [Ariel Ward]

saxophonist Kamasi Washington: on writing a score worthy of Michelle Obama [David Browne]

[from Steven Kurutz] ⬇️

New York Times Music @nytimesmusic

Other recordings followed throughout the 1960s, as did tours. But Millie Small was soon to become “one of the most elusive performers in pop history,” as the music magazine Goldmine said in a 2016 feature.

nyti.msMillie Small, ‘My Boy Lollipop’ Singer, Is Dead at 73Her 1964 smash hit was a breakthrough for Jamaican music. But she later became “one of the most elusive performers in pop history.”

folks are saying: Sesame Street led to hip hop? [Patrick J. Sauer]

hip hop, of course: over the past six weeks, no leader in pop culture has evolved more rapidly, or radically [Jon Caramanica]

⤴️⤴️ it’s time to take California back from Joan Didion: the first lady of West Coast letters needs to share that honor with the Mexican diaspora [Myriam Gurba]

India has an increasingly global perspective on beauty: but does the patriarchy still loom large? [Elton Fernandez]

shouldn’t need to be said but: André Leon Talley is the star of his own memoir ⏬ [Rebecca Carroll]