Do You Hear the People Sing?

“Brutality and resistance on the front lines of Hong Kong’s battle for democracy.”

Source: The Atavist
Published: Jul 31, 2020
Length: 34 minutes (8,500 words)

The Climate Crisis Has Sparked a Siberian Mammoth Tusk Gold Rush

Mammoth ivory has been touted as an “ethical” alternative for the continuing illegal ivory trade that is threatening an entire living species with extinction, but at what cost?

Source: Wired UK
Published: Nov 18, 2019
Length: 12 minutes (3,145 words)

The Worst-Case Scenario

“A white police officer fresh from de-escalation training, a troubled black woman with a gun, and a crowd with cellphones ready to record.”

Published: Jul 24, 2020
Length: 16 minutes (4,240 words)

I Reject the Imaginary White Man Judging My Work

“Breaking news: Black people have families and jobs and romantic interests and hobbies and challenges and yes, we have all of this within systems not designed for us, and yet we exist. We live and love and die. Those institutions and structures don’t HAVE to be in the forefront of the stories we tell and it’s also okay when they are.”

Published: Jul 30, 2020
Length: 10 minutes (2,625 words)

Barack Obama’s Eulogy for John Lewis

“He, as much as anyone in our history, brought this country a little bit closer to our highest ideals.”

Source: The Atlantic
Published: Jul 30, 2020
Length: 14 minutes (3,641 words)

A Farmer, ‘Little Ghosts,’ and 18,000 Tobacco Plants

“How COVID-19 upended farming in South Korea.”

Published: Jul 27, 2020
Length: 6 minutes (1,721 words)

What My Mother Didn’t Talk About

“My mother and I were very close, but when she died last year there was still so much I didn’t know about her.”

Source: BuzzFeed
Published: Jul 25, 2020
Length: 16 minutes (4,245 words)

Why Is Bob Ross Still So Popular?

“Twenty-five years after his death, the painter who gave us ‘happy little trees’ is more ubiquitous than ever.”

Source: The Atlantic
Published: Jul 28, 2020
Length: 13 minutes (3,330 words)

Inside the Supreme Court’s Historic Term

A four-part series behind the scenes of SCOTUS’s landmark decisions on LGBTQ rights, abortion, Trump’s taxes, and more. (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4)

Source: CNN
Published: Jul 27, 2020
Length: 41 minutes (10,400 words)

Black Talk, Black Feeling: Media Round Table

“So much of my work as a writer and editor is to make sure that Black people have the ability to write about more than just moments like the one we’re in right now, and a big disheartening thing for me has been to live through this moment and again see editors scrambling to get Black writers to write and then undoubtedly those same editors will vanish when those Black writers want to write about, I don’t know, ice cream or whatever the fuck”

Source: The Believer
Published: Jul 29, 2020
Length: 37 minutes (9,261 words)