Black Lives Matter
A beautiful, interactive project about everything Juneteenth. Don’t miss this. (New York Times, ~7+ min., spend a little time or spend a lot)
“We grew up with an officer involved in Rayshard Brooks’ murder. We’re not surprised.” (Medium, ~7 min.)
American policing is broken; let us count the ways. (Rolling Stone, ~16 min.)
Did we need a deep dive on the Black bird-watcher and white dog-walker whose lives collided in a racist encounter in Central Park? Yes, yes we did. (New York Times, ~12 min.)
A white woman, racism, and a poodle. (FranklyWrite, ~7 min.)
WNBA star Maya Moore stunned the sports world when she decided to sit out the 2019-20 season. Turns out she had a really, really good reason. (ESPN, ~28 min.)
We were overdue for a check-in with Angela Davis. (The Guardian, ~10 min.)
COVID19
A lovely, compelling tribute to a handful of the hundreds of healthcare workers who’ve lost their lives on the front lines of the pandemic. (Washington Post, ~18 min.)
Inside an Arkansas prison unit as it’s hit by one of the pandemic’s largest outbreaks. You won’t be able to put this one down. (New Yorker, ~36 min.)
In Amarillo, Texas, coronavirus cases are surging, but most residents prefer to look the other way, believing the pandemic won’t come for them. Is this the rest of America’s future? (BuzzFeed News, ~19 min.)
The best of the rest
(Eddie Guy, Mother Jones)
“The cruise industry is Donald Trump personified.” (Mother Jones, ~21 min.)
Jon Stewart weighs in on all the things in this Q&A I didn’t know I needed. (New York Times Magazine, ~27 min.)
Joe Biden’s career was in bad shape after the Anita Hill hearings. Enter Carol Moseley Braun, the first black woman senator, whose support of Biden in the years that followed was just what he needed. (Politico Magazine, ~31 min.)
The unforgettable story of a single South Korean family’s harrowing experience during the Korean War. (Wilson Quarterly, ~16 min.)
As a kid in the 1990s, Gary Vider conned his way into the locker rooms of the biggest sports stars in the world. This is how he did it. (Sports Illustrated, ~10 min.)
Americans are obsessed with the Britain of Downton Abbey and The Great British Bake Off. But it’s all a con: real Britain bears no comparison. (Longreads, ~24 min.)
This investigation into opioid manufacturer Insys is horrifying — and wholly unsurprising. (Financial Times, ~20 min.)
How a formerly homeless man accidentally created the world’s biggest virtual pub quiz. (Esquire, ~10 min.)
If you read one thing this week
Whatever happened to Marty Goddard, the woman who invented the rape kit? A reporter made it her mission to find out. (New York Times Opinion, ~38 min.)
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