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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…
Movement Must-Reads: Black identity extremists and racial disparities in mass shooting coverage
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A lot of ground to cover in this week’s Movement newsletter, including the launch of Mic’s new Facebook Watch show, stories about Cynthia Nixon and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a piece on racial bias in media coverage of mass shooters and the potential…
Movement Must-Reads: The future of Roe v. Wade and black-led efforts to reduce gun death
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A trio of eye-opening reports marks this week’s Movement newsletter, ranging from pro-choice advocates’ strategic responses to Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy’s retirement announcement to the anti-bias potential of virtual reality…
Movement Must-Reads: Nicki Minaj, dining during #MeToo, introducing a trans partner to your family
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A broad variety of stories in this week’s edition of the Movement newsletter, including words on an all-women art exhibit, the ethics of dining in the wake of #MeToo, an advice column focused on transgender issues and two people who say rapper Nicki…
Movement Must-Reads: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Candace Owens’ bigotry and the fall of #PermitPatty
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It’s been a gutting week in national news, with a remarkable primary election victory for a Latina socialist from the Bronx, in New York City, overshadowed by the fatal police shooting of a black 17-year-old and a series of devastating Supreme Court…
Movement Must-Reads: #AbolishICE, #WeWalkForHer and a summer of peace in Chicago
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The Trump administration’s family separation policy aimed at deterring Central American and Mexican immigrants from traveling to the United States has spurred heated debate over the past week or so — including a growing movement to abolish U.S.…
Movement Must-Reads: Trump’s threats against Chicago and digitizing the black press’s photo archives
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Mic’s ongoing coverage of Kim Kardashian West’s successful campaign to get Alice Marie Johnson’s prison sentence commuted reached an emotional apex this week when the two women — a reality TV star and a 63-year-old grandmother who’s been imprisoned…
Movement Must-Reads: Medical cannabis at HBCUs, #CoffeeWhileBlack, making the wrong moves in the NFL
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Starbucks closed to teach its employees not to be racist, the NFL opted to punish players for not standing for the national anthem instead of urging police to stop killing black people and Southern University took a big leap for historically black…
Movement Must-Reads: The case of Cyntoia Brown and navigating America #WhileBlack
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Private school segregation, a teen sex trafficking victim sentenced to life in prison for killing her abuser and a Texas woman’s seemingly false allegations that a state trooper sexually abused her headline a week of troubling stories, many of which…
Movement Must-Reads: Black Republicans, “arabbers” and mass killings in Gaza
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A horrific week of violence in Gaza underscores this week’s reporting from Mic and beyond, which also touches on Republicans’ efforts to attract black voters to their ranks, the dying culture of “arabbers” in Baltimore and a look back at season two…
Movement Must-Reads: U. of Florida commencement debacle, plus age discrimination in the job market
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Receive The Movement newsletter in your inbox every week! Subscribe here. Kanye West and Childish Gambino have dominated the news cycle this past week, but some of Mic’s best reporting covered topics that have flown largely under the radar. From…