#sundayread for June 7, 2020
Photo: Matthew Paul Argall (CC)
My picks for #sundayread for June 7, 2020:
- I listened to Jhumpa Lahiri’s “In Other Words,” a reasonably good set of essays originally written in Italian, the author’s third language.
[aff. link] https://amzn.to/3eumrbh - A Timeline of Events That Led to the 2020 “Fed Up”-rising
By @MichaelHarriot
#BlackLivesMatter - Before George Floyd’s Death, Minneapolis Police Failed to Adopt Reforms, Remove Bad Officers
By @Jamiles Lartey and @SimoneJWei chselbaum
(via @nelson_aj) - Ten years ago this week, what were our #sundayread recommendations?
https://bit.ly/3dfc36V - I walked from Selma to Montgomery, the only way to process my despair after the 2016 election
By @RahawaHaile
(h/t @longreads) - Half a World Away, Vietnamese Build Lives on the American Bayou
By Victoria Macchi @VMMacchi - Flashback: Books: Excerpt from Patti Callahan Henry’s “The Idea of Love”
- How China Sees the World
By H.R. McMaster
(via @SailiChavan) - The Great Digital Divide: Why bringing the digitally excluded online should be a global priority
From @Capgemini
[PDF] https://buff.ly/3d7fMUg (via @NicoletPatrick) - Flashback: Be kind to your Twitter followers
- Get in Shape, Girl: A Century of Working Out from Home
By @NataliaPetrzela - A secret network of women works outside the law and the medical establishment to provide safe, cheap home abortions.
By @LizziePresser
(h/t @longreads) - National Geographic @NatGeo has a reckoning with its racist coverage
By @SusanBGoldberg
(h/t @longreads) - Outside Voices
By Sloane Crosley @askanyone
(h/t @longreads)
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