[071520] ☀️ keep the family close ☀️
violin vigils + Tyra then & now + TikTok banned?
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⤴️via @iamcardib
protests.pandemic.politics ⤵️
⤴️ a march organized by Los Angeles radio station KDAY calls for black and brown unity ➕ 10 steps toward preventing your own eviction ➕ can the coronavirus, for all its destruction, offer an opportunity for radical change? ➕ violin vigils for Elijah McClain ➕ the quiet of lockdown vs. the noise of protest ➕ expect to see Trump ads on the Food Network ➕ why the Kanye election thing is really not a thing ➕ children of immigrants from Africa and the Caribbean bringing race to the fore in France ➕ is Candace Valenzuela about to be the first Afro-Latina (and third Latina) headed to Congress from Texas? ⬇️
music+
it’s all about Pop Smoke, and the soundtrack for Hamilton ➕ that time Marian Anderson defied the nazis [from Kira Thurman] ➕‘I treat every song like Jay-Z gon’ listen to it’ ⬇️
⤴️📸 via @che_noir
words + screen + art
🙏🏾rest in peace, Grant Imahara ⤴️ ➕Glee creators remember Naya Rivera and the power of ‘Brittana’ ➕ Los Angeles’ ballroom scene slays on HBO Max’s Legendary ➕Desus and Mero on how to be funny without being a jerk ➕White Teeth seemed fresh and hopeful in 2000: how it reads now ➕ how black women heal ➕Kitchen Confidential and the early days of Anthony Bourdain ➕Tyra Banks is the new host of Dancing With the Stars ➕‘my entire life has been a protest’➕ the new Netflix / Jamie Foxx film ⤵️
clutch:
📸⤴️Pari Dukovic
how Patrick Mahomes became the superstar the NFL needs right now [by Clay Skipper] ➕the deep history and troubling impact of sports teams using Native American mascots ➕inside the NBA Bubble — blunts and balms?
media + style
let’s discuss this possible TikTok ban ➕CBS and the NAACP ink a huge content partnership ➕10 podcasts for Black women about self-development
throwback:
the SI cover that turned Tyra Banks, literally, into America’s top model [Chris Harris, 2016]
outside/free:
⤴️📸 Tyler Mitchell
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