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

https://www.newsleader.com/story/news/local/2020/06/06/where-silence-deeper-private-public-histories-motivate-marchers-staunton-virginia-george-floyd/3163047001/

 

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

https://www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/all-told/we-just-had-one-of-our-many-talks-about-being-a-black-boy-in-america/

 

The Intersection of History and Memoir

Coos Bay World – The Word

https://theworldlink.com/calendar/the-intersection-of-history-and-memoir/event_379f9666-a789-11ea-976a-577c10b538b6.html

 

Mum publishes comedic parenting memoir Mum’s the Word

Warrington Guardian

https://www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/news/18499405.mum-published-brutally-honest-comedic-insight-life-newborn/

 

Diary of a Young Naturalist by Dara McAnulty review – miraculous memoir

The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jun/07/diary-of-a-young-naturalist-by-dara-mcanulty-review-miraculous-memoir

 

Woman says she’s found family’s final resting place under a Miccosukee Greenway trail

Tallahassee Democrat

https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/politics/2020/06/06/long-forgotten-cemetery-may-under-miccosukee-greenway-trail/3147987001/

 

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

https://brooklynrail.org/2020/06/books/NEILE-PARISI-SARINA-PRABASI-JUDITH-KRUMMECK-STEPHANI-NUR-COLBY-and-SHARYN-SKEETER-with-Ben-Tanzer

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