[052620] 😩 'sanitizer makes me ashy'
👋🏾we have answers
COVID19.CULTURE:
🗝 😷 where you live: it’s either reopening, regionally reopening, reopening soon, or still shut down — find out what’s what by clicking on your state, here (the New York Times, constantly updated)
even before the pandemic shuttered strip clubs: dancers were fighting exploitation and moving online [Natalya Carrico]
⏩ in case what you have makes you ashy: where to buy bomb hand sanitizer right now [Daniel Varghese]
⤵️ ‘…a week’s worth of observations, hoping to capture, with no attempt at being comprehensive, a time when my feelings were as raw as my understanding of what was happening…’ ⬇️
‘journalists of color are particularly susceptible to layoffs’: and that can distort coverage of the crisis [Marian Liu]
rethinking mass incarceration in the age of coronavirus: community groups have pointed out the social costs of the prison system for decades — the pandemic exposes even more risks [Sarah Stillman]
he’s been ‘leading the charge’ to get actors/crews back to work: Tyler Perry Reveals details of his ‘Camp Quarantine’ production protocols [Bryn Elise Sandberg]
higher ed in the age of coronavirus: teaching African-American literature during COVID-19 [Farah Jasmine Griffin]
‘…in 3-5 years we're going to be getting Oscar screenplay acceptance speeches like: I wrote this in five days in April 2020. What do you think?’ [Pete Keeley]
Destiny’s dorm closed for the quarantine, and in a month she ages out of foster care: what happens when there is no safety net? [Ginia Bellafante]
podcast 📻: At The House is sharing stories of how life is changing for folks [You Had Me At Black]
recent reads + looks + listens
hip hop stays dominating: Future reaches No. 1 with High Off Life, the seventh time in the last three months a rap album has held the top spot ⏬ [Ben Sisario]
⤴️ Tiwa Savage + Davido + Mr Eazi talk it out [Gail Mitchell]
[⤴️ interview conducted by Ayana Contreras ⤴️]
is capitalism racist? new book depicts white supremacy as the economic engine of American history [Nicholas Lemann]
🌺 Hawai’i’s own Willie K is gone from cancer — below the bluesman performs with his daughter 🔽 [Wendy Osher]
turmeric, tahini, gochujang: they’re are a part of the “new” global pantry — but it’s white cooking personalities who have had viral success using them [Navneet Alang]
Mary Jane’s lil sis: the OG story of how CBD entered the mainstream [Amanda Chicago Lewis]
Hanifa just changed the fashion game: step into their 3-D fashion show [Asia Milia Ware]
choreographer Charm La’Donna: ‘…music is so important. It’s a universal language that allows people to connect. When I share my story, I know so many people will be able to relate in one way or another’ ⏬
🗝unions are essential: “If I didn’t have a union, I probably wouldn’t have spoken up.” [Dave Jamieson]
what you need to know about TikTok’s ad situation👇🏿
throwback reads + looks + listens
since we’re all cooking so much: who owns Southern food? [John T. Edge, Tunde Wey, 2016] and another on shared history, appropriation, Gullah cuisine, and Charleston restaurants [Hillary Dixler Canavan]
that time in the 1960s when Martin Luther King Jr. was interviewed by Playboy [Alex Haley, 1965]
Danyel Smith writes a story about Foxy Brown in 1998: and talks through the story of its aftermath, here 🔽
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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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