Below are some significant stories from the past week regarding life, society and how we preserve our stories for history.
Hyphen Recommends: BOOKS BY BLACK WRITERS
Hypen – Asian America Unabridged
https://hyphenmagazine.com/blog/2020/06/hyphen-recommends-books-black-writers
Underlying the silent march, personal and civic histories provide motivation to keep walking
The News Leader
A Guide to the less-lethal weapons police use against protestors
The Washington Post
[‘This can’t be happening’: An oral history of 48 surreal, violent, biblical minutes in Washington]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/06/05/less-lethal-weapons-protests/?arc404=true
‘We just had one of our many talks about being a black boy in America’
The Washington Post – All Told podcast
The Intersection of History and Memoir
Coos Bay World – The Word
Mum publishes comedic parenting memoir Mum’s the Word
Warrington Guardian
Diary of a Young Naturalist by Dara McAnulty review – miraculous memoir
The Guardian
Woman says she’s found family’s final resting place under a Miccosukee Greenway trail
Tallahassee Democrat
Documenting the Pandemic
Columbia University News
Press Release
https://news.columbia.edu/content/documenting-pandemic
What it Contains, What it Obsurces – A dialogue on the relationship between writing fact and fiction
The Brooklyn Rail
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