[072220] 🌞😔 it's a cruel, cruel summer
Barack + Badu + 'Old Guard' + DaBaby
this summer is less DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince’s ‘Summertime’ and more Run-DMC’s hard times / spreading/ just like the flu. I’m listening to a lot of Donna Summer and Erykah Badu, but we all dealing with things as we can ✊🏾please register to vote immediately✌🏾⬇️
snap/shot 📷
📸⤴️Steve Shapiro
protests.pandemic.politics ⤵️
⤴️a socially-distanced Barack Obama and Joe Biden sit-down launches Thursday via their social feeds ➕ Florida — what are we doing? you really not going to the Bahamas rn ➕how the Black Lives Matter generation remembers John Lewis ➕ ‘I don't really feel like arguing with this negro’ ➕‘I was naive to think this couldn’t touch my family’: Pacific Islanders hit hard by the coronavirus ➕the protests and the body-snatching in Portland
music+
⤵️White artists really don’t hire Black tour managers ⤵️
➕ Erykah Badu is blazing a new trail (from Badubotron) ➕ DaBaby talks rap’s 2020 MVP debate ➕‘she must’ve slept with label executives’: why women in hip-hop deserve more respect (Jaelani Turner-Williams) ➕before NKOTB, it was black and brown boy bands that paved the way ⤵️
words + screen
Rishi Reddi’s Passage West (‘follows the arrival of immigrant farm workers from Punjab to California’s Imperial Valley’) and 10 other novels starring essential workers ➕
⤴️ Gina Prince-Bythewood’s The Old Guard is on track to reach 74 million households in first four weeks ➕is Clueless still the best Jane Austen adaptation?
🏀 clutch
📺 ⤴️what to watch: Jayhawkers, a ‘thrillingly analytical’ film about Wilt Chamberlain’s college years (Amazon Prime)
media + style
here’s proof: black influencers are way underpaid ➕for Black women in media — is a “dream job” a myth? ➕while at home, Black hairstylists return to their roots (Darian Harvin and Jessica Cruel) ➕ let’s talk about Hollywood’s neglect of black men’s hair (Angelique Jackson)
throwback
the story of Willie Earle and the twenty-eight men acquitted of lynching him (Rebecca West, 1947) ➕ flashback to Barack Obama’s outro ⬇️
outside/free
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Danyel Smith || Elliott Wilson || Darian Harvin
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