[062420] that thing u can do rn 2 change everything
➕LeBron, reparations & boss British #blackradio
vOtE. omg we are a day late publishing as yesterday was Danyel’s birthday 😅🥳😷🎊 but, truly: yesterday’s wild primaries are reminder that elections this year are profoundly important. election days in 2020 are not biz as usual. we’re protesting and it’s working. we’re not only registering to vote like crazy, we’re voting and it’s working. please register to vote immediately. not sure if you’re ready? go here, like right now ✌🏾⬇️
snap/shot 📷
protests.pandemic.politics ⤵️
how exactly do you catch COVID-19 — there’s a growing consensus ➕despite anti-eviction rules passed due to COVID, some Los Angeles landlords try to oust tenants by locking them out, or turning off utilities 🏠residents who have been on the front lines for George Floyd are finding their lives—and their city—transformed 🏇🏽🎨what lockdown means for LGBTQ artists and writers 🎨📚 ➕ it’s not just the middle aged and the paid who are escaping New York City
➕ you do know why Spike Lee named his company 40 Acres and a Mule? George Clooney putting his 💵 where his mouth is ➕➕ “it’s just been a lot of words” — Black students are not feeling USC or UCLA’s response to the movement ➕ Printed Matter is collecting PDF protest tools for anti-racist organizing — and you can submit ➕small business owners, question for you: are you using these financial COVID tools? aaaaand: put your mask on. if it comes down to skin issues, here’s how to combat breakouts caused by “maskne”
music+
⤴️ [yes!] ‘Cars That Go Boom’ has made a comeback, thanks to TikTok
➕that time the KKK thought Johnny Cash’s first wife was black ➕ Ismail Muhammad on John Coltrane’s ‘Alabama’ and what it means in these times ⬇️
➕put some respect on K-Pop’s name ➕ the long, complicated history of “urban” music ➕15 essential black liberation jazz tracks ➕a brief history of policing black music 📻✊🏾🔌 more on British online #blackradio station, No Signal, here [by Aniefiok Ekpoudom] 🔽📻⤵️
incoming: new music from Thee Stallion set for Thursday night ⤵️
words+screen
these ⏩are the best un-produced scripts by and about Asian Americans ++ Nicole Beharie opens up about being called 'problematic,' and being blacklisted after Sleepy Hollow ⤵️
cast and crew of Breakin’ and Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo reunite to talk about the lasting legacy of breakdancing film
🏀 clutch:
Joakim Noah … ⬇️
…is headed to the Clipps ⤴️ England rugby star Maro Itoje is a force to be reckoned with on and off the pitch — and an important voice on race 🏉 30 Black fitness gurus to try out ➕ check out Jackie Robinson’s Brooklyn home from back in those Rookie-of-the-Year days
media+work
what Playstation 5 looks like, plus how much it’s going to cost, and the release date ➕Ramy Youssef’s ‘zine is filled with convos he had during Ramadan ➕ the rape kit’s real, woman-led history — unearthed by Pagan Kennedy
style+
how about 19 living room décor accents from black-owned businesses [from Lauren Ro] ➕how about the fact that for Latinx millennials, being ‘plant parents’ is about identity and necessity ➕ in case you didn’t know, Costco is that spot for beauty products ➕Lena Waithe and friends share their fave black-owned, queer friendly brands
throwbacks:
Shanel Odum’s boss 2008 profile of Mariah Carey ➕ from Katy Waldman (2018): the ‘white fragility’ that prevents white Americans from confronting their racism ➕ get into Ms. Tina’s art collection ⏬
outside/free:
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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.