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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

Blood Vessel concept illustration (Getty Images)

Study resolves a coronavirus riddle

Matthew Rozsa

"Covid Toe," pediatric multisystem inflammatory syndrome, and other odd manifestations are finally tied together

Donald Trump; Mitch McConnell (Getty/Chip Somodevilla)

GOP doesn't support boosted unemployment

Jake Johnson - Common Dreams

More than 40 million Americans have filed for unemployment benefits since mid-March, per the US Department of Labor

Donald Trump | Two NYPD cars drove into a crowd of protestors (Photo illustration by Salon/NBC/Getty Images)

Donald Trump's police state

Amanda Marcotte

Trump puts himself above the law, but encourages police to assault anyone who objects to his criminal regime

A demonstrator is seen in front of a police barricade during a protest over the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man who died after being pinned down by a white police officer (Yasin Ozturk/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

237 neck restraints since 2015: analysis

Igor Derysh

Three-fifths of those rendered unconscious were black, and most cases did not involve an underlying violent offense

White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany calls on reporters during her first on-camera news conference at the White House, May 1, 2020. (Chip Somodevilla / Getty)

Why hasn't Trump given address on Floyd?

David Edwards - Raw Story

"A national Oval Office address is not going to stop Antifa,” McEnany says. “What’s going to stop Antifa is action"

Mayor Bill De Blasio (Getty/Yana Paskova)

De Blasio's daughter arrested at protest

Igor Derysh

"Running SUVs in crowds of people should never, ever be normalized," Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says in response

George Floyd | A quote from the coroner's report on George Floyd's death (Offices of Ben Crump Law/Salon)

Will there be justice for George Floyd?

Heather Digby Parton

Minneapolis officials are already leaning into "excited delirium" — and blaming George Floyd for his own death

(Getty/PeopleImages)

Immunity passports may violate U.S. law

Seema Mohapatra - The Conversation

Some countries are mulling the use of immunity passports to make clear who is immune from coronavirus infection

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