[061620] that change that was gonna come?
it's here ✊🏾😷🏳️🌈☮️💪🏽
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snap/shot 📷
[at the protests in Atlanta, Georgia] photograph ⤴️ Ben Hendren
protests.pandemic.politics ⤵️
⤴️art by broobs.psd
👆🏽J’na Jefferson on the life and death of activist Oluwatoyin Salau +++ as of Tuesday afternoon, a man was arrested in deaths of Salau and volunteer Vicki Sims 🙏🏾 do you know that the killings of transgender women of color in the U.S. is an epidemic? do you know why so many protesters wore white to Brooklyn’s massive Trans Lives Matter march? there have been two more killings just this past week — even as the LGBTQ community wins perhaps its biggest Supreme Court victory ++ here’s a gDoc filled with educational resources and trans leaders to follow [and listen to] 🏳️🌈 🏳️🌈 a reminder that the first Pride was a riot 🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈 ⬇️ and word to Raquel Willis ⤵️
the confusion around BIPOC has been squashed — thank you, Sandra E. Garcia 👉🏿 and, yes, the work is working: people are thinking differently about the police [Lucy Diavolo] and can we talk about The Trayvon Generation?👇🏿can we worry about Arizona, Florida, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas, and Nevada, who all reported increases in new COVID cases on Tuesday 😷😷 Alabama, too 💵💵 COVID relief: new rent-assistance program is set to help 80,000 Los Angeles families
music+
‘…if you’ve attended a protest in [NYC], you’ve likely heard “Dior,” from…
…the late Pop Smoke while marching … the streets of the five boroughs…’ ⤴️ a rare Andre 3000 interview includes talk about making protest t-shirts and having faith in protests again [Blackbird Spyplane] +++ is rap is in need of a LGBTQ+ renaissance? other 🎶🎧🎤 stuff to read: Danyel Smith on ‘the unstoppable genius and glory of black women in music,’ and Darian Harvin on Chloe x Halle and police brutality
words + screen
One Day At A Time is going animated tonight, Lin-Manuel Miranda is guest-starring, and there’s even more about it, here ⤴️ if you loved Crazy Rich Asians, this excerpt from Kevin Kwan’s new novel, Sex and Vanity, is about to make your day 🎤 🎤 ++ btw, teen viral superstar Alaya is headed to Nickelodeon ⏬
how about 8 podcasts to deepen your knowledge of Black history ✊🏾and is Spike Lee’s new Da 5 Bloods his best film? K. Austin Collins has thoughts, and so does Julian Kimble ⏬
clutch:
more about ⤴️ here 🏀 and more about ⏬ ‘the holy grail of modern trading cards’ ⤵️ here
➕➕➕meet Brehanna Daniels, NASCAR’s first Black tire changer 🏁🏁🏁
media + style
this is what happens when the population of Los Angeles is hugely multiracial — and the Los Angeles Times’ staff is … not ➕the same companies cosigning Black Lives Matter also sell skin-lightening creams outside the U.S. [Megha Rajagopalan] and you should know about fashion designer Cheyenne Kimora — she’s used her ‘burgeoning brand to lift up the Black community through the creation of her wildly-extravagant designs’
outside/free:
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team HRDlist
Danyel Smith || Elliott Wilson || Darian Harvin
special thanks this issue to Parker Williams, Benjamin Meadows-Ingram, Dyana Larios, Wesley Harvin, Nicole Jones and many others.