Via The Atlantic.  The Coronavirus Was an Emergency Until Trump Found Out Who Was Dying The pandemic has exposed the bitter terms of our racial contract, which deems certain lives of greater value than others. Adam Serwer Staff writer at The Atlantic Six weeks ago, ahmaud arbery went out and never came home. Gregory and Travis McMichael, … Read More

Via The New York Times.  Many Latinos Couldn’t Stay Home. Now Virus Cases Are Soaring in Their Communities. Rates of coronavirus infection among Latinos have risen rapidly across the United States. By Shawn Hubler, Thomas Fuller, Anjali Singhvi and Juliette Love DINUBA, Calif. — When the coronavirus first spread to the fields and food processing factories of California’s Central Valley, … Read More

Via The Saturday Evening Post.  Crisis to Opportunity — Survival or Thrival with COVID-19 The primitive part of your brain can hamper your ability to think, analyze, evaluate, and plan during a crisis like COVID-19. Learn how to gain control and thrive instead of just survive. Jim Taylor, Ph.D. We humans like to think of … Read More

Via CNN.  These Black Nature Lovers are Busting Stereotypes, One Cool Bird at a Time By AJ Willingham, CNN (CNN)Everyone has the bird. Corina Newsome calls it a gateway bird, the one special species that sets an avian enthusiast on a lifetime course of discovery and environmental passion. Hers was the blue jay. For Tykee James, it was … Read More

Via The New York Times.  Black Environmentalists on Climate and Anti-Racism By Somini Sengupta This week, with the country convulsed by protests over the killing of a black man named George Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis, we decided we’d talk to leading black climate activists about the connections between racism and climate change. A clear theme emerged … Read More

Via The New Yorker.  Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds New discoveries about the human mind show the limitations of reason. By Elizabeth Kolbert In 1975, researchers at Stanford invited a group of undergraduates to take part in a study about suicide. They were presented with pairs of suicide notes. In each pair, one note had … Read More