[060220] ✊🏾 ✅ protest *and* politics
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the uprisings + COVID
contrary to much of the uprising imagery: it def wasn’t all looting — there’s a street-level photo essay of Angelenos protesting in the name of George Floyd, here [Kemal Cilengir]
historic curfews in Los Angeles and New York: the harshest in decades
on the ground in Atlanta: a story [Charles Bethea], and photos ⤵️ [Jaquan Cummings]
the officer who stood by as George Floyd died is Asian American: we need to talk about that [Kimmy Yam]
Floyd Mayweather: set to pay for George Floyd’s funeral services [Timothy Rapp]
“Can We Live?” The daughter of civil rights activists on the question that’s haunted her for decades [Tananarive Due]
on the need for cross-racial solidarity: in the Latinx community [Ecleen Luzmila Caraballo] ⏬
white people: are far less likely to die from the coronavirus than blacks, Latinos in L.A. County [Rong-Gong Lin II]
dude is in custody, but: what the murder and manslaughter charges brought against the man arrested for killing George Floyd actually mean [Jay Willis]
“buttery basmati…chicken tikka masala”: the pandemic has devastated one of the greatest lunch pastimes in Los Angeles — all-you-can-eat Indian buffets [Aahoo Pourang]
George Floyd + Houston’s protests: living without the benefit of the doubt [Bryan Washington]
in the beauty marketplace: black consumers spend a total of $473M in a $4.2B industry — here’s how beauty brands are responding in these historic times [Darian S. Harvin]
for Democratic city leaders across the country: the unrest in their streets is testing their campaign promises and principles [Astead W. Herndon, Jennifer Medina]
out of Buffalo, NY: Chef Darian Bryan creates a healthy cookbook during quarantine [Melanie Orlins]
recent reads + looks + listens
as a teenager: ‘no one instructed me to read Flannery O’Connor or Zadie Smith or Isabel Wilkerson or Jhumpa Lahiri or Edith Wharton’ [Kiley Bense]
when Jamaica rolled out its 50-dollar note in 1988: it picked an enslaved man who went to a criminal’s death on the gallows [Tom Zoellner]
wait: is this the end of stan culture? [Craig Jenkins]
⤴️drawing by Jim Fitzpatrick
Maxine Hong Kingston’s genre-defying life and work: ‘The Woman Warrior became the definitive telling of the Asian immigrant experience, at a time when there weren’t many to choose from’ [Hua Hsu]
remember in The Last Dance, when Michael Jordan walked on the team bus bopping to Kenny Latimore? the Grammy-nominated R&B singer tells all [Aaron Dodson]
is South Carolina ready for a young black Democrat? a profile of candidate Jaime Harrison, who is trying to defeat Senator Lindsey Graham [Adam Harris]
‘gentrification fiction’ is a thing: and there are some really good books available to you [Lisa Braxton]
interracial romance with black women as the stars: Insecure, Love Is Blind, The Lovebirds — all push back against dating bias in the real world [Salamishah Tillet]
I’m No Longer Here: it’s set in Monterrey and New York City, and is a love letter to Cholombiano culture ⏬
the hardest story of Kelly Rowland’s life is on her new album ⬇️ [Phillip Picardi]
throwback reads + looks + listens
that time the media struggled to deal with a black man dominating the white game of golf: Tiger Woods’ Golfweek noose cover, and the lynching comment that led to it [Justin Tinsley, 2017]
Michael Brown, Eric Garner, and the 'Other America': ‘I fear for the future of this country’ [John Lewis, 2014]
when we used to go outside:
At Segregated Drinking Fountain, Mobile, Alabama, 1956 [Gordon Parks]
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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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