The Weekly Town Crier (05/29/20)

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All the week’s news that’s fit to cry about (05/29/20).

Read “Jimmy Cobb, The Pulse Of 'Kind Of Blue,' Dies At 91” at NPR.

Read “William H. Lamar IV: It's not just the coronavirus -- bad theology is killing us” at Faith and Leadership.

Read “White Woman Calls Cops On Black Man Over Dog Leash Dispute In Viral Footage The man said he’d asked her to leash her dog. The woman is heard saying she would tell police “there’s an African American man threatening my life” at HuffPost.

Read “4 Minneapolis Police Officers Fired Over George Floyd Death The move comes after a video showed an officer kneeling on the neck of Floyd, an unarmed Black man, on Monday” at HuffPost.

  • Read “We must confront the inconsistent laws that allow black lives to be taken with impunity” at Washington Post.

  • Read “Chaotic Minneapolis protests spread amid emotional calls for justice, peace” at Washington Post.

  • Read as the current president calls protesters “thugs” and threatens to shoot them, prompting Twitter to put a warning label on his public communications. This is America.

Read "Angélique Kidjo on Africa Day: 'We demand not to be at the mercy of our circumstances anymore.' at Okay Africa.

Weekly Coronavirus Roundup:

  • Read “The Price of American Arrogance It’s not just Trump. We need to overhaul our approach to foreign policy to avoid another disaster like the coronavirus” at Slate.

  • Read “Trump Suggests Virus Death Count Is Inflated. Most Experts Doubt It” at New York Times.

  • Read “Trump ordered states to open churches. Can he do that? The Justice Department's own actions show just how little power the president has to force the outcome he wants” at Politico.

  • Read “Nearly half of Twitter accounts pushing to reopen America may be bots” at Technology Review.

  • Read/Watch “Calif. Design Firm Working on Protective Suit for Concerts and Clubbing The suit includes a N95 filter as well as snap-in canisters for drinking and vaping” at NBC Washington.

  • Read “An Incalculable Loss” at New York Times.

  • Read “'We All Feel At Risk': 100,000 People Dead From COVID-19 In The U.S.” at NPR.

  • Read “This Is So Unfair to Me”: Trump Whines About His COVID-19 Victimhood as Campaign Flails” at Vanity Fair.

  • Read “Our Daily Breather: Steve Reich Composes During The Coronavirus Crisis” at NPR.

  • Read “As Covid-19 cases rise in 17 states, Americans still divided on whether masks should be mandated” at CNN.

  • Read “WHO Halts Hydroxychloroquine Trial Over Safety Concerns” at NPR.

  • Read “Coronavirus may never go away, even with a vaccine Embracing that reality is crucial to the next phase of America’s pandemic response, experts say” at Washington Post.

Read “On weekend dedicated to war dead, Trump tweets insults, promotes baseless claims and plays golf” at Washington Post.

Read “Twitter adds label to Trump's misleading tweets about mail-in-ballots It's the first time Twitter has slapped a warning label on the president's tweets” at CNET.

  • Read “Stung By Twitter, Trump Signs Executive Order To Weaken Social Media Companies” at NPR.

Read “How Hitler Controlled the Press” at University of North Texas.

Read “Were They Real? See Which Historical Figures May Not Have Existed” at Definition.com.

Read “The Countermelodies That Changed Us: A Lifetime Of Loving Indigo Girls” NPR.

Read “Kendrick Lamar Thinks Like A Jazz Musician” at NPR.

Read “13th Floor Elevators: A Visual History” at Aquarium Drunkard.

See “Bob Dylan’s 1974 Classic “Forever Young,” Illustrated” at Brain Pickings.

Read “Idris Ackamoor and The Pyramids announce new album Shaman” at Pan-African Music.

Read “The Black Crowes to Kick Off ‘Budweiser Stage At Home’ Series” at Jambands.

Read “Nike SB Preps New Grateful Dead “Dancing Bear” Collection” at Relix.

Read “Grimes Is Selling a “Fraction of Her Soul” at Online Art Exhibition” at Pitchfork.

Read “The Remaking of Steve Buscemi” at GQ. “In 2019, Buscemi lost his wife of over 30 years. In a rare interview, Hollywood's most beloved misfit opens up about anxiety, loss, and the hard work of getting through it all.”

Read “Thanks to Bookshop, There Is No Reason to Buy Books on Amazon Anymore Independent bookstores, and booksellers, get a lifeline just when they need it most” at Inside Hook.

Read “Herd Of Fuzzy Green 'Glacier Mice' Baffles Scientists” at NPR.

Read “Controversial study shows rats prefer jazz to classical music, when on drugs” at Classic FM.

Read “Necco Wafers candies make a sweet comeback after 2-year absence” at Today.

Read “Under Pandemic Prohibition, South Africans Resort to Pineapples A strict lockdown has meant a spike in homebrewing” at Atlas Obscura.

Read “Why Supporters Are Working to Save Palabras Bilingual Bookstore” at Phoenix New Times.