How J.K. Rowling Betrayed the World She Created
“On transphobia and growing up in the Harry Potter universe.”
Walking Is Making a Major Comeback
“Our journeys vary in scale. But we walk to be transformed, to return home a different person than the one who left. The best reason to walk, though, is because we can.”
Why Minneapolis Was the Breaking Point
“Black men and women are still dying across the country. The power that is American policing has conceded nothing.” Wesley Lowery writes about what he’s learned about police violence, the Black Lives Matter movement, and the breaking point we’ve reached.
Jailed Ferguson Protester Joshua Williams Wants to Be Out There With Everyone
“We spoke this week by phone about the protests against police brutality that are sweeping the country. Williams’s plight has again bubbled to the surface on social media—as it has during other moments of public police abuse against black communities—offering a vivid reminder of the price that protesters can be forced to pay for their activism. Williams, who recently lost his mother to cancer— ‘talked to her everyday. She cussed me out before she went away, so she’s alright,’ he told me, laughing sadly—explained that he is optimistic about his parole hearing, and heartened to see the size and scale of the protests across the globe, he said. ‘At this time, everybody should band together,’ Williams told me, speaking from Missouri Eastern Correctional Center. ‘It’s like a power. If everybody is down and out, then we all stand up together, and help each other out through hard times.'”
Inside A Black Family’s Cross-Country RV Trip
“Journalist Janine Rubenstein took her family on a road trip from New Jersey to California just days before George Floyd’s murder set this nation ablaze. Here’s what they learned about motor homes, the country and life, along the way.”
America Is Giving Up on the Pandemic
“Businesses are reopening. Protests are erupting nationwide. But the virus isn’t done with us.”
Performing Whiteness
“What are you carrying dormant in your body that springs up when confronted with Black joy, Black power, Black brilliance, Black Blackness in the world? How can you train your bodies to respond differently when you are triggered, when you’re in fight-or-flight mode? How can I help you stop yourselves from killing us?”
The Police Have Been Spying on Black Reporters and Activists for Years. I Know Because I’m One of Them.
“Crouched over King’s body is a man holding a towel to the gaping wound on King’s face. The man, rarely identified in photos, is Marrell “Mac” McCollough, a Memphis cop who was assigned to infiltrate a militant activist group hated by Memphis police.”
The Indigenous Woman Behind South America’s Biggest Male Chefs
“Patricia Pérez uses her grandmother’s ancient map of the desert to forage for plants and herbs no one else on Earth can access.”
Inside the Revolts Erupting in America’s Big Newsrooms
“Staff members’ demands helped end the tenure of James Bennet as Opinion editor of The New York Times. And they are generating tension at The Washington Post. Part of the story starts in Ferguson, Mo.”
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