[070720] need that work? we got that work
breonna memes + senegalese surfer + #NBAback
hello, original and new subscribers! are you keeping well? are you trying to tell the difference between possible COVID — and anxiety? have you registered to vote? do you need all voter registration deadlines, by state? if you’re not sure you’re registered, go here, like right now ✌🏾⬇️
snap/shot 🎨
⤴️“Mask” by Lethabo Huma
protests.pandemic.history.politics ⤵️
from Michael Arceneaux: ‘Breonna Taylor is not a meme’ ➕ for so many college-age adults the coronavirus pandemic means a lack of paid internships and summer jobs ➕ an untold POC history of California ➕ a survival guide for Black, Indigenous, and other women of color in academe ➕ Oakland’s Black Catholics demand action ➕ Rep. Jeramey Anderson, Mississippi’s youngest Black lawmaker, on the fight to remove the confederate flag ➕ ‘what white residents of very white towns tell themselves about the existence of racism in those towns’ ➕ there’s more than one way to be Black — and to be an American ➕ Hong Kong — changed overnight — and now navigates its new reality ➕ ‘They shouldn’t have picked me’: the Dene Nation Chief beaten by Canadian law enforcement is a longtime fighter for Indigenous rights ➕ dollar stores are thriving — but what exactly do they do to poor communities? and while we’re on it: folks are turning to layaway payment programs vs. credit cards ➕ the radical quilting of Rosie Lee Tompkins ⤵️🧵⤵️
music+
⤴️there’s a whole Pusha, Drake, and Young Thug (and Pop Smoke) situation ➕ a look back at Beyoncé and Coachella 2018 ➕Cheryl Lynn to Nona Hendryxx: 15 songs that shook New York’s queer dance floors in the 1970s and ’80s ➕on TikTok, creators are masquerading protest safety tips as dance videos and dismantling racist stats with a cappella singalongs (by Cat Zhang) ➕ the power 😂 of DJing at your company’s function ➕if you are late on Jack Harlow, catch up at TheMotto
sentences + screen
⤴️ Maya Phillips on Bébé’s Kids and racial Injustice ➕ 📺 Issa Rae and Michaela Coel talk boundary-breaking art and black visibility on-screen (by Eni Subair) ➕ Rudolfo Anaya, godfather of Chicano literature, dies at 82 ➕ what it’s like to be Black and work in book publishing ➕ ‘I eat leftover lobster, cold and delicious’ (from Gina Rae La Cerva) + 📚 8 picture books that let young minds wonder and wander on their own ➕ Miss Juneteenth ⏬ showcases Nicole Beharie in a timeless mother-daughter tale 🎬⬇️
🏀 clutch:
Some people are really upset that the NBA is returning and trying to do everything in their Power to stop it...but Team Private Flights are leaving for Orlando this week! Carry on...
and: the WNBA is set to have Breonna Taylor’s name on jerseys as part of its 2020 social justice campaign
media + style ⤵️
👋🏽hi Padma ⤴️
Soledad O’Brien on the #MeToo moment for journalists of color ➕ the man behind Meghan Markle’s wedding makeup understands the need for value— and values — in beauty + the restaurant directory app that’s helping Black-owned restaurants around the country + a bomb Kentucky butter cake recipe with brown butter glaze + food media is having a reckoning, and Padma Lakshmi ⤴️ has got the game on lock + a throwback from last summer: inside the world of beauty pageants — and Mexico’s drug cartels
🏄🏿♂️🌊 outside/free:
💦🏄🏿♂️⤴️🇸🇳@fallcherif9 via @nicolesweetsports
this is your newsletter. diverse work curated by a diverse team for a diverse readership. in this curation 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.
team HRDlist
Danyel Smith || Elliott Wilson || Darian Harvin
special thanks this issue to Parker Williams, Benjamin Meadows-Ingram, Dyana Larios, Wesley Harvin, Nicole Jones, Boachie Acheampong, and many others.