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Movement Must-Reads: The Brett Kavanaugh debacle
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A note before we get started, this will be my final entry as writer of the Movement newsletter. We’re still figuring out who will take over, but please know that it’s been a pleasure writing for all of you. Keep an eye out for what comes…
Movement Must-Reads: Diamond and Silk, and a Dallas Nine protester’s harsh words for Dak Prescott
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This week, we have reports on Shaun King, the Dallas Nine protests, the death of Jon Burge and a dispatch from Diamond and Silk’s roadshow. It’s been a wild one. Read on for more. From Mic: Chauncey Alcorn with a rollicking dispatch from his…
Movement Must-Reads: Caricaturing Serena Williams and the killing of Botham Jean
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A pair of big stories dominated the past week’s news: the confrontation between tennis icon Serena Williams and an umpire at the U.S. Open, and the police shooting of Botham Jean in Dallas. Plus, a look at the five-year-old death of Tyrone West in…
Movement Must-Reads: Kaepernick, Kavanaugh and justice for Jordan Edwards
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Colin Kaepernick’s new partnership with Nike was the big news on Labor Day weekend, with Brett Kavanaugh’s ongoing Supreme Court confirmation hearings coming hot on its heels. See also what the president of the NAACP has to say about Kavanaugh’s…
Movement Must-Reads: A disastrous cash bail law in California, and Jacksonville survivors speak out
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This week’s newsletter covers a lot of ground, from the Afropunk music festival, to the mass shooting in Jacksonville, Florida, to a voter registration drive masquerading as a gorgeous public art project and the Poor People’s Campaign’s efforts to…
Movement Must-Reads: Aretha Franklin, Gullah cuisine and Marlene Gebhard’s painful evolution on race
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Topics covered in this week’s edition of the newsletter range from Aretha Franklin’s civil rights legacy to how natural disasters perpetuate racial disparities and the rich culture and cuisine of the Gullah people. Plus, a new thing we’re trying…
Movement Must-Reads: Dispatches from Unite the Right 2, ‘BlacKkKlansman’ and Crop Over in Barbados
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The anniversary of the deadly 2017 white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, was commemorated this weekend with anti-racist counterprotests and a second so-called “Unite the Right” rally in Washington, D.C. Movement reporter Chauncey…
Movement Must-Reads: Transplaining sexual orientation and the police shooting of Desmond Phillips
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Stories about gender and identity are front and center in this week’s Movement newsletter, including a video on the controversies around transgender athletes and the removal of a trans model from the cover of rapper Travis Scott’s new album,…
Movement Must-Reads: Crystle Galloway, Stand Your Ground and affordable housing in Denver
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This week saw major news in the case of Glo Merriweather, an activist who faced felony inciting to riot charges stemming from their participation in the Charlotte Uprising in 2016. From correspondent Aaron Morrison: North Carolina activist Glo…
Movement Must-Reads: Nia Wilson, #MuteRKelly and the deadly costs of global agribusiness
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The stabbing death of Nia Wilson in Oakland, California, Gwen Carr’s reaction to the New York Police Department’s disciplinary proceedings against Officer Daniel Pantaleo — who killed Carr’s son, Eric Garner, in 2014 — and a historically deadly year…