[063020] ✊🏽😷👩🏽💻🎵📚your encyclopedia of right now
[063020] ✊🏽😷👩🏽💻🎵📚your encyclopedia of right now
Zendaya. bad FB. Hawaiian hip hop. COVID life.
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Jeff Hughes plays his violin as protesters demand justice for Elijah McClain ⤴️ June 27 2020 📸 image by Kevin J. Beaty
protests.pandemic.politics ⤵️
Rashad West went from college athlete to restaurant owner by age 26 — then he shot the video that proved George Floyd was not resisting arrest (West sits with Bonsu Thompson in Minneapolis) ➕ Saeed Jones speaks with writer/activist Raquel Willis about Black trans power, and why the revolution will not be timestamped ➕is Facebook the new Fox News? ➕ why obsessive K-Pop fans are turning toward political activism ➕what it means to be Black and Native in 2020 ➕a Texas border county had the coronavirus under control — then the governor stepped in ➕COVID and working at Amazon: ‘I feel like I’m risking my life for a dollar’
folk in L.A.’s Echo Park skate for justice ⤴️ the real and actual United States Post Office — and your right to vote ➕⬇️
⤴️ more Irina Dumitrescu on pandemic distraction, here
🎧 music+
⤴️‘We need to make substantive structural change to how things are run in classical music.’
➕behind the scenes of Meg Thee Stallion’s BET mini-movie ➕the untold story of how hip hop went to Hawaii, and how Hawaii went hip hop ✚ Ayana Rashed on Louisville’s Jack Harlow ➕did Jay-Z’s “Beach Chair” set the stage for the second act of his career? ✚ if you love hip hop culture you should read TheMotto. And Trapital.
⤴️Oliver Twixt brings queer Black Boy Joy to hip hop
📕📺👩🏽💻 sentences + screen
⤴️everybody is trying to see John David Washington’s Tenet — for pandemic reason it is now pushed to a July 31 opening day
Tanya Holland’s Brown Sugar Kitchen, Rachel Ama’s Vegan Eats, Jerrelle Guy’s Black Girl Baking — and a whole bunch of black cookbooks ➕that time Zora Neale Hurston gave Langston Hughes a lift to Tuskegee in her Nash Coupe ➕Zendaya & MJ Rodriguez talk Euphoria’s Rue, and Pose’s Blanca [video] ➕Michaela Coel’s brilliance is haunting and undeniable in her I May Destroy You (HBO) — by Doreen St. Félix ➕ the filmed version of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton is arriving right on time + the new Memorial Drive is To Be Read ⬇️
🏒clutch:
Filipino-Canadian NHL star speaks out against racism in hockey ⏩ 🏃🏾♂️🏃🏽♀️how running fails Black America ➕ Cam Newton to New England ➕’Black People Will Swim’ fights a stereotype 💦 and WNBA champion Breanna Stewart is about that life
🤓 media + style
Complex called out for anti-blackness, sexism and more; OkayPlayer and OkayAfrica dealing with allegations of verbal abuse, inappropriate behavior; a report about the toxic workplace at groundbreaking Latinx culture site, Remezcla ➕’Revolutions always begin fragmented…then, when united, the real change happens and history gets made’ — more on how to deal with racism in the fashion industry, here ➕it’s time for the media to stop using the R-word when covering Washington DC’s NFL team ➕ at-home grooming tips from The Art of Shaving's virtual barbershop ➕the best sports bras for big boobs ➕ herbal meds and beach days with photographer Quil Lemons ➕bike shorts have never been overrated ✚ this couple created an app to connect independent beauticians with styling chairs ➕ if you love beauty and grooming reporting, read Beauty IRL
😜 throwbacks:
from 2016: ‘The Unlikely, Triumphant Return of A Tribe Called Quest’
and, happy birthday, Fantasia ⤵️
outside/free:
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