Innehållsförteckning för 7/10-7/17/2020 från Newsweek

1964 Student activists signed up African Americans to register to vote during Mississippi’s Freedom Summer, and Newsweek reported that “somehow the mix of courage and energy and naiveté seemed to make, here and there, some small dents in the wall.” Violence marked the campaign, though: three activists were murdered by the KKK, and African Americans were scared away from registering by arrests and beatings and burnings of Black homes and churches. Today, approximately 16 percent of the voting-age Black population in Mississippi is legally barred from voting due to disenfranchisement laws. 1978 According to Newsweek, the Bakke case “went to the heart of the issue of preferential treatment of minorities.” The Supreme Court ruled that “race can be a factor in selecting students” for admission into institutions of higher education,…

@GovWhitmer @LtGovGilchrist The murders of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor are the latest illustration of hundreds of years of inequity and systemic racism against Black Americans. This is the culmination of governance that did not adequately center the values of equity, representation and opportunity for all. Going forward, we must prioritize these principles to build a more just and equitable country. We are simultaneously facing two of the most consequential crises of our lifetimes: COVID-19 and the persistence of police brutality. The pain of the convergence of these crises is being felt by those who can bear it the least. Black communities across the country have historically been underfunded and lack basic access to quality education, health care, housing, transportation and paths to opportunity. As a result, tens…

Seven years have passed since Patrisse Cullors and fellow activists Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi launched the Black Lives Matter movement in response to the acquittal of the man who killed Trayvon Martin, an unarmed Black teenager shot while walking home in Miami Gardens, Florida. Cullors talked with Newsweek chief correspondent Chantal Da Silva about what’s changed since then, what hasn’t and what the BLM movement means today in the wake of George Floyd’s death and its impact on the movement for racial justice. Here are edited excerpts from the interview. Q. In the years since you started the BLM movement up until George Floyd’s death, did you feel like progress was being made? A. It depends on how you define progress. I think that we had created an environment…

“None of the allegations of being a hoax will break me or tear me down.”—NASCAR DRIVER BUBBA WALLACE ON THE NOOSE FOUND IN HIS GARAGE STALL “IT’S THE OPPOSITE. WE’RE GOING TO BE DOING MORE TESTING, NOT LESS.”—DR. ANTHONY FAUCI “Immigration has contributed immensely to America’s economic success…Disappointed by today’s proclamation—we’ll continue to stand with immigrants and work to expand opportunity for all.”—SUNDAR PICHAI, CEO OF ALPHABET INC. “The Disney movie I never even dared to dream. Thoroughly speechless.”—ACTOR LESLIE ODOM JR. ON THE UPCOMING HAMILTON “BEING BLACK, MAYBE THAT’S THE REASON WHY THEY ALWAYS MAD.”—Beyoncé in her new single “Black Parade” “As someone who’s been performing without an audience for the last 3 months, Mr. President, you get used to it.”—STEPHEN COLBERT “RAYSHARD BROOKS WASN’T JUST RUNNING FROM THE…

DIRECTOR JOEL SCHUMACHER, ONE OF Hollywood’s most versatile directors, died in New York City at 80 years old on June 22 after a battle with cancer. He made several era-defining films in the ‘80s and a still-notorious superhero fiasco in the ‘90s. He also lived a big, wild and unapologetic life. Schumacher, who didn’t pursue a career in film until his thirties, had an impressive resume once he got into the biz. He directed St. Elmo’s Fire (1985), The Lost Boys (1987), Flatliners (1990), Batman Forever (1995), Batman & Robin (1997) and The Phantom of the Opera (2004). Before turning to directing, he had served as costume designer on Woody Allen’s Sleepers (1973), Bloom in Love (1973) and Interiors (1978). Throughout his career, he recognized young talent, such as Demi…

In big cities like New York or Rome, social distancing changes the very mood and vibe of these metropolises, rendering them almost unrecognizable. And yet, in remote reaches of the globe, this kind of seclusion is simply the norm. From islands that are a week’s journey from the closest landmass to a small village in Arizona that still uses a mule to deliver the mail, take a page from some of the most isolated places around the world. 01 Kalaupapa Hawaii Decades ago, this community—surrounded by sea cliffs towering 3,600 to 3,900-feet—was used as a leper colony. Now a national park whose waters humpback whales, green sea turtles and monk seals call home, the island is still pretty untouched. 02 Supai Arizona Home to the Havasupai tribe—known as the “People…