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On Tuesday, all eyes were on Houston as George Floyd was honored before being laid to rest next to his mother. 1/22
A timeline uses video and other records to document the clearing of protesters outside the White House before Trump’s photo-op. 2/22
A New York City police officer who shoved a protester to the pavement is arrested. Meanwhile, dozens of Philadelphia cops salute and applaud an officer facing assault charges for beating a student protester. 3/22
TV show Cops gets canceled. 4/22
See also: “Confessions of a Former Bastard Cop.” Also, confessions related to a ride-along with bastards, and confessions of National Guardsmen who struggle with their role at protests. 5/22
Why are the police in charge of road safety? Why not hand over traffic stops to something like restaurant inspectors? 6/22
A powerful example of a corporate statement about police violence comes from a baby names website. 7/22
Competing ASL translations of "Black Lives Matter" have come to convey "far more than three words could ever do in English." 8/22
Related: "Ongoing Race Conversations With My Son," a comic by Dekera Greene Rodriguez. 9/22
Is Nextdoor really a social network for all communities if black people don’t feel safe on it? 10/22
Advocating for police reform, IBM says it will stop offering and researching facial recognition and analysis software. 11/22
Microsoft’s decision to replace human journalists with robots backfires when the AI can’t differentiate between a pair of black women. 12/22
Food writer (and Tournament of Books judge) Helen Rosner explains what to do when apples go bad: “Better to trim and burn the infected branch, or even the whole tree.” 13/22
Readers respond to the resignation of the Opinions editor at the New York Times. 14/22
Some white protesters at recent marches aren't somber or angry but excited, "like they just got off a roller coaster." 15/22
First, K-pop fans drowned out anti-black hashtags. Now BTS and its "army" have donated more than $2 million to Black Lives Matter. 16/22
National Geographic releases a free, complete version of LA 92 on YouTube. Also now free, Ava DuVernay’s Selma and (must-watch) 13th. 17/22
A spreadsheet of African cinema and diaspora films, including where you can stream the movies online. 18/22
Photographer Gordon Parks remembers his picture of Malcolm X investigating the death of Ronald Stokes. 19/22
Some black art for your week: "Stranger Fruit," photographs by Jon Henry of black mothers holding their sons. Photographs from "Art Is," by Lorraine O'Grady, "a joyful performance in Harlem’s African-American Day Parade, September 1983." Also, "The Worst Witch," a spooky art film examining the everyday magic of black women. 20/22
Band members from across Prince’s career collaborate from home to re-record “The Cross.” 21/22
Finally, a poem by Gwendolyn Brooks, about sleeping in the coolness of snug unawareness. 22/22
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