[060920] this time feels different
change is happening: nonstop
hello, original and new subscribers 🙏🏾 what a time ✊🏾 we’re experimenting with a new format — please let us know what you think. our goal is for the HRDlist to be as fluid as our situations and lives right now. while we’re on it: please register to vote immediately. not sure if you’re set to go? go here, like right now ✌🏾⬇️
snap/shot 📷
how it was going down in Philly ⏬ [photo: Chase Sutton]
protests.pandemic.politics ⤵️
⤴️ Aaron Rahsaan Thomas, who co-created S.W.A.T for CBS, on Hollywood’s history of “copaganda” — and the hard work ahead. And while we’re on it, is it time to ban police ride-along shows like Cops and The First 48 (by Adam H. Johnson)? And if you’re looking for a proper spreadsheet of police violence videos, a lawyer and a mathematician have created one for you right here. It’s ‘not just a black and white issue' — that’s Montana tribal members reacting to the death of George Floyd 🙏🏾 someone keeps erasing BLM in San Francisco ⏩ ⏩ America may be “giving up” on the pandemic 😷And it looks like Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti is cutting at least $100 million from LAPD’s budget, with the funds to be reinvested in communities of color ✊🏾✊🏾 the protests keep getting bigger — and a Black Lives Matter cofounder explains why this time is different.
music+
⤴️ he played Prince Harry’s 2018 wedding to Meghan Markle (they’re quite busy), and now he’s flipping the classical world upside down. Here’s Zachary Woolfe on Sheku Kanneh-Mason 🎻🎻Carina del Valle Schorske traces a lineage of Puerto Rican backup dancers in American entertainment from Rita Moreno to JLo 💃🏾📻 and a radio station owned by Fisk University is holding Nashville down right now (story + audio by Scott Simon + Sophia Alvarez Boyd) 🎼 the first black person appointed president of a major U.S. record label talks about race in the industry — and what has and hasn’t changed ⏩⏩
BTS and the #BTSARMY are about this life ⬇️ they donated a million — and their fans matched, to the dollar. the group is also examining its debt to black culture
Katelina Eccleston on why urbano artists’ scarce comments on the #BLM movement are a problem ⏩ ⏩ and Jeremy Helligar says ‘it will take a lot more than hashtags and Blackout Tuesdays for real progress to infiltrate the music industry’ 🙏🏾🙏🏾 the great Bonnie Pointer, founding member of the legendary Pointer Sisters, is dead at 69
words + screen
Michaela Coel’s new HBO series explores the shattering effects of a sexual assault (story by Maria Fontoura) ⏩ and On the Record is a “wrenching” new documentary about allegations against Russell Simmons (review by Devika Girish). qtna: why is there an assumption that there can only be so many Black stories in the marketplace at one time?
⤴️ Hope Wabuke on televised fantasies of racial violence
clutch:
🏃🏾♀️⤴️Olympian runner Marielle Hall on how racial bias functions in the running community ++ read a 2017 throwback from Myron Medcalf and Dana O’Neil about how playground basketball is dying before checking out the 13 storylines surrounding the NBA’s July 31 return in Orlando 🏀🏀and 1! 🤫 ⏬
media + style
Virgil Abloh + Don C: Jason Dike on how the uprisings have exposed streetwear’s growing disconnect with consumers 👕🗞👖will we all be signing waivers before we go back to shopping in stores? have you seen all the lists? 60 Black-owned fashion labels and clothing stores + more Black-owned fashion brands +13 Highly Recommended Beauty Gems From Black-Owned Businesses + lots of Black-owned independent bookstores + NYC’s Black-Owned Restaurants + there’s more than 300 in Los Angeles to support as well — all this is very cool but it’s even more cool to just cover black-owned businesses as a matter of course 🤦🏾♀️ ⏩⏩ to close us out, here’s Aaron Miguel Cantú on white news and the false promise of a press for everybody ➕ a reminder to keep your head to the sky.
outside/free:
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special thanks this issue to Parker Williams, Benjamin Meadows-Ingram, Dyana Larios, Wesley Harvin, Nicole Jones and many others.