Recommended Reading:
Bellamy Shoffner: [Content Note: Discussion of police brutality; racism; gun violence] Why I Didn't Call the Cops When I Saw a Teen with a Gun
Rhett Jones: [CN: Violence; death; descriptionso of violence] Torso Identified as Missing Journalist Who Was Allegedly Killed by Submarine Designer
Aya: [CN: Racism; appropriation] On Being the Black friend
Charline Jao: State Department Science Envoy Resigns with Letter That Spells "IMPEACH"
Michael Fitzgerald: Katie Sowers Just Came Out and Is the First Openly Gay NFL Coach
Sameer Rao: [video content] Issa Rae, Maxine Waters, Solange Pay Tribute to Greatness of Black Women at "Black Girls Rock!"
[CN: White supremacy; eliminationism; racist violence; death.] The following is not a blog post; it's a long-form piece by Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah, but it is a must read. Settle in and take the time to read the whole thing. The last few paragraphs in particular are breathtaking.
A Most American Terrorist: The Making Of Dylann Roof https://t.co/5lEMP9ISZa by Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah pic.twitter.com/0Z0vJIr7lu
— GQ Magazine (@GQMagazine) August 21, 2017
I urgently hope that white editors in particular will read this and understand that only a Black woman could have written it.
— Melissa McEwan (@Shakestweetz) August 23, 2017
Diversify your writing staffs. There are things we need to read that white men will never be able to write.
— Melissa McEwan (@Shakestweetz) August 23, 2017
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