Five must-reads on our current moment.
For myself and possibly many of you, this week has been about listening and learning. Learning more about the despair faced by countless black Americans. Listening to advice on how to support and how not to support black friends, and generally doing my best to bear witness during this crucial moment in American history. It’s times like these that I find I am most grateful to have found a career in journalism, an institution that supports and protects the rights of citizens and the foundations of Western democracy. And in the spirit of that journalism, I’ll leave you to enjoy some of the important work done by my colleagues this week. |
 | | A Black Lives Matter protest on Thursday at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington.Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA, via Shutterstock |
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“This is the biggest collective demonstration of civil unrest around state violence in our generation’s memory. The unifying theme, for the first time in America’s history, is at last: Black Lives Matter.” |
The Police Report to Me, but I Knew I Couldn’t Protect My Son |
 | | A young man in Atlanta this week protesting the killing of George Floyd by police in Minneapolis.Ben Gray/Atlanta Journal-Constitution, via Associated Press |
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The Bill of Rights, Revised |
What It’s Like to Wear a Mask in the South |
 | | Wearing a mask has become yet another symbol of the seemingly insurmountable schism between Americans.William DeShazer for The New York Times |
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Why has wearing a mask — which is supposed to protect us all — “become the political equivalent of wearing a bumper sticker on your face?” Margaret Renkl shares her firsthand accounts from Southern states. |
Who Is Most Likely to Die From the Coronavirus? |
One important factor: pre-existing medical conditions. But wealth has a lot to do with it too. These are the patterns that can illuminate which people who have contracted Covid-19 are most likely to die from it. |
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