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Family of Ahmaud Arbery embrace at the Glynn County Courthouse during a protest of the shooting death of Arbery on May 8, 2020 in Brunswick, Georgia (Sean Rayford/Getty Images)

Racism and black men's health

Shervin Assari - The Conversation

Black men's life-and-death issues are ignored on a daily basis, explains a physician who studies health gaps

Attorney General William Barr listens as U.S. President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office before signing an executive order related to regulating social media on May 28, 2020 in Washington, DC (Doug MIlls-Pool/Getty Images)

AG floats mail voting conspiracy theory

Igor Derysh

After casting doubt on Russian interference, Barr is “worried” that foreign actors might print counterfeit ballots

A journalist is seen bleeding after police started firing tear gas and rubber bullets near the fifth police precinct following a demonstration to call for justice for George Floyd on Saturday in Minneapolis. (Chandan Khanna/Getty Images)

Media under attack — and shifts focus

Dan Froomkin - Press Watch

Working journalists have come under sustained attack from police during the last week — and it woke them up

Kitchen workers wear surgical masks and gloves as they prepare food (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Yes, the looting must stop

Thom Hartmann - Common Dreams

Black and Hispanic people have been looted of trillions in reduced pay by racist employers and giant corporations

US President Donald Trump holds up a bible in front of boarded up St John's Episcopal church after walking across Lafayette Park from the White House in Washington, DC on June 1, 2020. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

Bishop "outraged" by Trump's photo-op

Elizabeth Preza - Alternet

Episcopal bishop "outraged" police tear-gassed protesters so Trump could use "our church as a prop"

U.S. President Donald Trump makes a statement to the press in the Rose Garden about restoring "law and order" in the wake of protests at the White House June 01, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Did Trump just break international law?

Bob Brigham - Raw Story

The ACLU is calling for investigations into the tear-gassing of protesters at the White House

Bill Nunn as Radio Raheem in "Do The Right Thing" (Universal)

George Floyd meets Radio Raheem

Zack Sharf - Indiewire

"How can people not understand why people are acting the way they are?" Lee asked while debuting his new short film

US President Donald Trump holds up a Bible outside of St John's Episcopal church across Lafayette Park in Washington, DC on June 1, 2020. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump threatens to send in troops

Roger Sollenberger

Trump told the country he will mobilize military if governors don't "dominate" protesters. It's not clear he can

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos | Riot police confront demonstrators gathered over the death of George Floyd an unarmed black man who died after being pinned down by a white police (Salon/Elif Ozturk/Anadolu Agency/Yasin Ozturk/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

Amazon is not an ally

Matthew Rozsa

Amazon — which used racist dogwhistles to discredit organizers — tries to take the moral high ground, and fails

Stressed out African American woman (Getty Images)

A few do's and don'ts for white allies

Melanie McFarland

Feeling helpless? Speechless? Since we can't Google that for you, here's a very basic primer to help you out

Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., arrives in the Capitol for the Senate Republicans lunch on Tuesday, March 10, 2020 (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Republicans call for military escalation

Cody Fenwick - Alternet

Calling for the military to act under a "no quarter" order is a war crime, conservative pundit David French notes

A protestor holds a Black Lives Matter placard (CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP via Getty Images)

Shooting suspect gave to Trump: records

Roger Sollenberger

A white Trump donor once photographed with Don Jr. allegedly shot and killed a 22-year-old black protester in Omaha

Melissa Barrera, Tanya  Saracho, Mishel Prada on the set of "Vida" (Starz)

The queer Latinx legacy of "Vida"

Kevin Smokler

The showrunner spoke to Salon about mourning the end, evolving identity, and what she hopes for the show's legacy

George Floyd (Offices of Ben Crump Law)

Floyd's death was a homicide: autopsies

Roger Sollenberger

Dr. Michael Baden, who performed an autopsy on Eric Garner, says "what we found is consistent with what people saw"

Protestor at the site of David Mcatee's death (Ashlie Stevens)

Louisville protesters mourn David McAtee

Ashlie D. Stevens

Salon spoke to community members who remembered a Louisville fixture, the man who served BBQ at Dino's Food Mart

The Golden Thirteen: How Black Men Won the Right to Wear Navy Gold by Dan Goldberg (Beacon Press/Salon)

History repeating on racism, violence

Dan C. Goldberg

The NAACP pleaded with Roosevelt to address racial injustice during the violent summer of 1943

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Facebook employees walk out

Matthew Rozsa

Facebook's workers are furious at how the platform enables Trump's misinformation and propaganda

Mural of George Floyd, who died in police custody in Minneapolis (Abdulhamid Hosbas/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Floyd's brother calls for people to vote

Alex Henderson - Alternet

"That's how we're going to hit them, because it's a lot of us," Terrence Floyd says. "It's a lot of us"

U.S. President Donald Trump talks to journalists as he departs the White House May 05, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Trump to governors: "Use the military!"

Igor Derysh

"You're going to look like a bunch of jerks," Trump ranted. “You have to use the military”

Cornel West and Donald Trump (Chauncey DeVega/Getty Images/Chip Somodevilla)

West speaks out about George Floyd

Jon Queally - Common Dreams

"Can you imagine this kind of lynching taking place and people are indifferent? People don't care?"

The News Corp. building on 6th Avenue, home to Fox News, the New York Post and the Wall Street Journal (Kevin Hagen/Getty Images)

Fox News: Go make citizen's arrests!

David Edwards - Raw Story

"It’s up to us to realize cops can’t be everywhere, DOJ can’t be everywhere, law enforcement can’t be everywhere"

(Getty/Sean Gallup)

Obama hopes protests spur "real change"

Alex Henderson - Alternet

"We have to mobilize to raise awareness, and we have to organize and cast our ballots," Obama says in a Medium post

Police officers in riot gear stand in formation at a cross street as they make their way to where protesters are gathered on May 30, 2020 in Louisville, Kentucky. Protests have erupted after recent police-related incidents resulting in the deaths of African-Americans Breonna Taylor in Louisville and George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Brett Carlsen/Getty Images)

Cop body cams off in Louisville shooting

Roger Sollenberger

Mayor Greg Fischer announced Chief Steve Conrad, already due to step down June 30, has now been relieved of duty

People hold placards as they join a spontaneous Black Lives Matter march to protest the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis (Hollie Adams/Getty Images)

Seattle cop kneels on protester's neck

Igor Derysh

A second video appears to show the same officer kneeling on another suspect's neck moments earlier

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