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The Weekly Roundup

Happy Friday, family! Here’s what we’re watching, listening to, reading, and supporting this week. Get into it!

REMIX REMINDERS:

Our #SummerPeachReads book club series continues for our subscribers on July 28, with Alyssa Cole’s How to Find a Princess.  Get your copy from your favorite independent bookstore or from bookshop.org, and join us! [Paid subscribers will receive a Zoom link and reminder to log on to discuss the novel].

Crunk Feminist Mailbag is coming soon! Please send your burning feminist questions about anything from love to politics to living a feminist life to cfctheremix@gmail.com

WATCH:

Check out the trailer for the forthcoming Amazon doc My Name is Pauli Murray here, and be on the look out for the documentary later this year.

Tracee Ellis Ross is a well of wisdom. Check out this oldie but goodie Vision Tour interview with Oprah from 2020. She drops bars!

READ:

Rest in power to pioneering scholar Lauren Berlant:  https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/lauren-berlant-obituary/

Sending love to our Haitian fam. More news emerges on the recent assassination of Haitian president Jovenel Moïse: https://apnews.com/article/business-government-and-politics-colombia-caribbean-haiti-5066fd5e0169cce7df8950843c8d3544

In this week’s “I can show you better than I can tell you” boss move, Nikole Hannah-Jones (and Ta-Nehisi Coates) announces she will be joining the faculty of Howard instead of UNC. UNC might win some, but they just lost one…

And because blackgirl magic and genius is intergenerational, Zaila Avant-Garde became the first African American to win the Scripps Spelling Bee! Go, Zaila! Check out articles here, here, and here to learn more. [Spoiler: she is also a basketball prodigy]

There have been conflicting reports this week about whether or not booster shots are in our future. Some say yes, some say no. The moral of the story is, protect yourself and others and…get vaccinated!

Get into this powerful connection between gardens and prison abolition: https://nextcity.org/daily/entry/people-solitary-confinement-volunteers-garden-imagine-world-without-prisons

This map is amazing. May it be in all our history books. 

LISTEN:

A decent primer on the recent events in Haiti

Climate change means more wildfires in the Midwest and East coast. Check out this story from NPR.

Happy Birthday to the late and great June Jordan. Here is her reading, Poem About My Rights.