The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Ibram X. Kendi, Wesley Morris, James Baldwin, Betsy Morais and Alexandria Neason, and Josina Guess.
Jericho Brown: ‘Write into the Deep Dark Wreck’ By Krista Stevens Highlight “I grow green with hope. I’d like to end there.”
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from James Hamblin, Josina Guess, Edward Carey, Paraic O’Donnell, and Ruth Graham.
How a Hurricane’s Trailing Winds Retold Willie Earle’s 1947 Mass Lynching By Krista Stevens Highlight “Even with a preponderance of evidence and testimonies, every man on trial got away with murder. This fact was not front-page news but tucked beneath odd stories called ‘Flashes of Life.'”