The Weekly Town Crier (06/26/20)
All the week’s news that’s fit to cry about (06/26/20).
Read “Complementarians in Closed Rooms Aimee Byrd, Beth Moore, and private words that reveal a pressing problem” at Christianity Today. “When we see the words of some complementarians outed from a Facebook group, it reminds us we all have a responsibility to root out misogyny.” (EDITOR’S NOTE: What is the difference between Complementarianism and Patriarchy?)
Read “Leaving Liberty After a decade of declining black enrollment on campus, a tweet set off several recent departures among black students and staff” at Christianity Today.
Read “I Suppressed So Much of My Humanity in Being Here” What it’s like to be black at Liberty University” at Slate.
Read “Why are so many white Christians suddenly standing up for racial justice? It might help that our pews aren’t available to sit in and pray” at Christian Century.
Read “Dozens of Christian College Faculty Eliminated in Spring Budget Cuts” at Christianity Today.
Read “In an interview with EWTN, Trump hails ‘tremendous letter of support from the Catholic Church’” at America Magazine.
Read “The ‘Over There’ Era of Missions Is Over Nowadays, the Western church needs to send ambassadors to its own culture” at Christianity Today.
Read “We reversed Trump’s immigration policy once. We’re back to fight ‘Remain in Mexico.’ at Religion News Service.
Read “Black Practicing Christians Are Twice as Likely as Their White Peers to See a Race Problem” at Barna.
Read “Brazil’s massive replica of the Temple of Solomon The Pentecostals of the Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus have a mighty vision” at Christian Central.
Read “Did Race and Racism Exist in the Middle Ages?” at Not Even Past.
Read “Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben deserve retirement. They're racist myths of happy Black servitude. The mascots were intended to let white consumers indulge in a fantasy of enslaved people as submissive, self-effacing, loyal and contentedly pacified” at NBC News.
Read “Fact check: Father of modern gynecology performed experiments on enslaved Black women” at USA Today.
Read “Who Wrote ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’? Inside The Little-Known True Story” at All That’s Interesting.
Read “Tulsa Athletic to no longer play “The Star-Spangled Banner” at The Black Wall Street Times. “Tulsa Athletic, an American soccer team based in Tulsa and part of the National Premier Soccer League (NPSL), announces the club will no longer play the “The Star-Spangled Banner” and will play a new song of that's more inclusive and representative of today's America, “This Land Is Your Land” by Woody Guthrie, at all home matches.”
Read “Pro Softball Players Quit After Manager Brags To Trump About Her Team Standing For The National Anthem” at PercoLately.
Read “Why some people are willing to challenge behavior they see as wrong despite personal risk” at PBS. “Psychologists describe those who are willing to defend their principles in the face of potentially negative social consequences such as disapproval, ostracism and career setbacks as “moral rebels.”
Read “Never Forget, America’s Mass Lynching: 237 Black Sharecroppers Were Murdered In Arkansas” at Black Westchester.
Read “'World should know what is happening' to children in ICE detention: Mother testifies "It is painful for me to relive this experience and remember that suffering." at ABC News.
Read “We still don’t know just how much was lost in the Tulsa massacre of 1921” at QZ.
Read “The History of Racism Is Not Past” at Sojourners.
Read “'Black Lives Matter' is About More than the Police” at ACLU.
Read “A Call For Reparations: How America Might Narrow The Racial Wealth Gap” at NPR.
Juneteenth:
Read “Why Juneteenth is a holiday every American should celebrate” at Denison Forum.
Read “On Juneteenth, look to the biblical prophets and the Black Lives Matter movement” at America Magazine.
Read “Juneteenth and the Meaning of Freedom Emancipation is a marker of progress for white Americans, not black ones” at New Yorker.
Read “Honoring the 'Mother of Juneteenth' in Portland, Clara Peoples” at KGW.
Read “Senators propose bill to make Juneteenth a federal holiday Juneteenth is currently recognized by 47 states and the District of Columbia as a state holiday or observance” at NBC News.
Read “How Did We Get Here? 163 years of The Atlantic’s writing on race and racism in America” at The Atlantic.
Read/Listen to “'An Extraordinary Moment': Angela Davis Says Protests Recognize Long Overdue Anti-Racist Work” at WBUR.
Read “Black Lives Matter is inspiring demonstrations all over Latin America” at America Magazine.
Read “13 Microaggressions Black People Deal With All The Time” at Huff Post.
Read “Bubba Wallace responds after FBI says noose found in stall there as early as Oct. 2019” at 12 News. “"The image that I have, that I have seen hanging from my garage is not a garage pull," Bubba Wallace said in an interview with CNN. "From the evidence that we have, that I have, it's a straight-up noose."
Read “High court justices press attorneys over high-capacity magazine ban” at VT Digger.
Read “Mark Taylor: Black men are hanging themselves to start ‘civil war’ that will stop Trump’s reelection” at Dead State.
Read “Antisemitic incidents in Colorado continue to rise as attacks against American Jews reach all-time highs, new report shows” at MSN.
Read “Supreme Court blocks Trump from ending DACA in big win for Dreamers” at NBC News.
Read “NASA names headquarters after first Black female engineer Mary W. Jackson” at Axios.
Read “The US Government Kills Black People with Impunity Both at Home and Abroad” at The Nation.
Read “U.S. Soldier Charged With Plotting to Let Neo-Nazis Ambush Read “NASA names headquarters after first Black female engineer Mary W. JacksonHis Army Unit” at Time.
Read “Tennessee Tennessee Republicans approve six-week abortion ban in surprise vote Ban beginning at six weeks, which is before most women know they are pregnant, is blatantly unconstitutional” at The Guardian.
Read “Looking for black-owned restaurants in Arizona? Here are more than 50 around metro Phoenix” at AZ Central.
Read “What We Know About the Killing of Elijah McClain” at The Cut.
Ahmaud Arbery:
Read “Ahmaud Arbery murder suspects indicted on murder charges” at Axios.
George Floyd:
Read “Opinion Why Did Cup Foods Call the Cops on George Floyd?” at New York Times.
Read "Scottsdale Councilman Apologizes to George Floyd's Family for Mocking 'I Can't Breathe' at Phoenix New Times.
Breonna Taylor:
Read “One of the officers involved in the shooting of Breonna Taylor is being fired, Louisville mayor says Interim Police Chief Robert Schroeder calls actions of Brett Hankison a "shock to the conscience" at Salon.
Read “Mayor Fischer announces initiation of termination procedures against LMPD Officer Brett Hankison” at LouisvilleKY.gov.
This week in traitorous, white-supremacist Confederate monuments (and/or Columbus monuments):
Read “SEC tells Mississippi it has to change its flag, or risk losing host rights for championship events” at CBS News.
Read “Mayor Fischer announces initiation of termination procedures against LMPD Officer Brett Hankison” at LouisvilleKY.gov.
Read/Listen to “Confederate Monuments Continue To Come Down In Racial Justice Protests” at WBUR.
Read “Washington, D.C.'s only Confederate statue sacked during protest” at Axios.
Read “Confederate Speaker Portraits To Be Removed From The U.S. Capitol On Juneteenth” at NPR.
Read “President Trump tries to tie statue destruction to Democrats” at 12 News.
Read “President Trump says 'learn from history' instead of removing statues President Trump spoke out after an attempt Monday night to bring down a statue near the White House of Andrew Jackson, one of Trump's favorite presidents” at 12 News.
Read “President Trump threatens anyone destroying statues could face 10 years in prison” at 12 News. “President Trump said he's 'authorized' the arrest of anyone 'who vandalizes or destroys' monuments or statues.”
Read "Twitter flags ANOTHER Donald Trump tweet for 'abusive language' after he threatened protesters trying to topple Andrew Jackson statute outside the White House with 'serious force' at The Daily Mail.
Read “'I did the right thing:' Man arrested on suspicion of painting Arizona Confederate memorial speaks out” at AZ Central.
Read “We need to do more than topple (some) statues” at America Magazine.
Read “Miss. Baptists ask for removal of Confederate symbol from state flag” at Kentucky Today.
Read “Walmart bans Mississippi state flag due to Confederate symbol” at Axios.
Read “Minnesotans Petition To Replace St. Paul’s Columbus Statue With A Prince Monument” at Live For Live Music.
Read “Slavery advocate’s statue removed in South Carolina” at PBS News Hour.
Read “Dixie Chicks Change Name to The Chicks” at Pitchfork.
This Week in Protest News:
Read “Armed Vigilantes Antagonizing Protestors Have Received A Warm Reception From Police” at The Intercept.
Read “Phoenix church leads 'White Silence is Violence' march” at 12 News.
Read “Over 3,500 people take part in Tokyo’s first official Black Lives Matter march” at Time Out.
Read “Police Turned Richmond, Virginia Into a War Zone Last Night” at Vice.
Read “Chicago Police Illegally Denied Protesters Right To Attorney, Phone Call, Top Public Defender Says” at Block Club Chicago.
Read “Police shoot flash-bang grenades, pepper balls at protesters outside Phoenix Trump rally” at AZ Central.
This Week With the Police:
Read “NYC's 1975 Nightmarish Cop Propaganda Pamphlet” at Cracked.
Read “Nextdoor Ends Its Program for Forwarding Suspicions to Police” at Bloomberg. “Forward to Police,” one of several Nextdoor programs to strengthen law enforcement relations, has been criticized for elevating racial profiling.
Read “Hundreds of Police Officers Belong to Racist Facebook Groups” at The Root.
Read “The ‘Warrior Cop’ Is a Toxic Mentality. And a Lucrative Industry. Police are paying firms that preach extreme vigilance and deadly force.” at The Trace.
Read “Why Are Cops Putting Kids in Cuffs? Federal funding, zero tolerance, and lack of choice encourage the creeping criminalization of student misbehavior” at Reason.
Read “Shake Shack, "poisoned" cops, and how the press falls for police propaganda Break the dependence on police information” at Press Run.
Read “APA Urges Closer Partnerships Between Police, Behavioral Experts To Stem Racial Incidents” at American Psychological Association.
Read “Six lessons for police reform from the Catholic Church" at America Magazine.
Read “Who caused the violence at protests? It wasn’t antifa’ at Washington Post.
Read “Lawmakers in New Mexico back mandatory police body cameras” at 12 News.
Read “Beyond Reform The Senate stalls out before doing anything about police abuse.” at Slate.
Read “Above the Law: The Data Are In on Police, Killing, and Race” at The Public Discourse.
Read “Minneapolis Council members draft charter amendment to replace existing police department” at Minneapolis Reformer.
Read “National Teachers Union Wants Police Out Of Schools” at Cap Con.
Read “Should cops who shoot someone be tested for drugs and alcohol? Metro Council may demand it” at Louisville Courier-Journal.
Read “Demilitarization of Police Means Disrupting the Army-to-Police Pipeline” at Jacobin Magazine.
Read “Democrats Vow To Block GOP Police Reform Bill Unless Republicans Agree To Negotiate” at NPR.
Read “Florida police caught using mug shots of black men for target practice” at MSNBC.
Read “Anonymous digs up vast tranche of U.S. police documents” at Axios.
Read “The urgent need for deep changes in American policing Are the police meant to protect people? Or to fight them?” at Christian Century.
Read “How the Phoenix Police Department Spends Its $745 Million Budget. “The city wants to give the force an additional $24 million. But the department is still failing to solve crimes, and officers have shot 212 people between 2011 and 2018, killing about half” at The Appeal.
Read “Wrongfully Arrested Because Face Recognition Can’t Tell Black People Apart” at ACLU.
Read “Minneapolis Park Board declares parks are ‘refuge’ for homeless” at Minnesota Reformer.
Read “Brett Favre says Colin Kaepernick will be considered a hero like Pat Tillman” at TMZ.
Read “Boston Lawmakers Vote To Ban Use Of Facial Recognition Technology By The City” at NPR.
Your Weekly Coronavirus Roundup
Read “Apple Closes Retail Stores in Four States as Coronavirus Cases Rise Apple said it would close stores near Naples, Fla; Charlotte, N.C.; in Greenville, S.C.; and in Arizona” at Wall Street Journal.
Read “Ducey will let Arizona cities decide on mandating mask wearing, announces new rules for businesses” at AZ Central.
Read “Phoenix will require masks starting Saturday. Refusing to wear a face covering could bring a $250 fine” at AZ Central.
Read “The Karens Are Giving Us a Hard Time Now” A waiter at a reopened restaurant explains how dining works in a pandemic” at Slate.
Read “Maricopa County sends mandate to every resident in the county: Wear a mask no matter what city, town or area you live in” at AZ Central.
Read “Treasury to release names of some businesses that received PPP loans” at Axios.
Read “Yes, Wearing Masks Helps. Here's Why” at NPR.
Read “Six Trump campaign staffers test positive for coronavirus ahead of Tulsa rally” at Axios.
Read “Rep Andy Biggs believes mandatory face masks are tyranny. Yeah, he said that, tyranny” at AZ Central.
Read “Phoenix Megachurch Hosting Trump Rally Says It Has Special Coronavirus-Killing Air System” at Phoenix New Times.
Read “Phoenix Mayor Gallego: Mask policy won’t be enforced at Trump event” at KTAR.
Read “Spain opens border to tourists; Trump wants less testing” at AP News.
Read “President Trump suggests he urged slowing of coronavirus testing” at 12 News.
Read “White House Defends Trump's Use Of Racist Term To Describe Coronavirus” at NPR.
Read “German Federal Government Pledges $169 Million For Live Events Industry With “Restart Culture” Initiative” at Live FOr Live Music.
Read “Amid threats and political pushback, public health officials are leaving their posts” at Washington Post.
Read “Why Native Americans took Covid-19 seriously: 'It's our reality' Coronavirus is novel to the world, but the impact on native communities is anything but a new experience” at The Guardian.
Read “The pandemic has deepened my insomnia—and my prayers As I lie awake, it seems right to join those who address God with different names than I use” at Christian Century.
Read “Young people in the US South and West are increasingly getting coronavirus” at CNN.
Read “Years of potential life lost” is the most sobering and sad Covid-19 statistic I’ve seen” at Vox.
Read “EU prepares to ban American travelers as borders reopen on July 1” at Axios.
Read “Coronavirus has brought US 'to its knees', says CDC director” at The Guardian.
Read “You Can Order A Face Mask Customized With The Rest Of Your Face On It” at Crafty.diply.
Read "We Still Don't Fully Understand The Label 'Asymptomatic'
Read “Protest against mask mandates, led by Scottsdale councilman, underway in Old Town” at AZ Central.
Read “Hospitals issue joint call to wear masks in public: ‘Wearing a mask is not a political statement’” at News Break.
Read “Rubio: 'Everyone should just wear a damn mask' at The Hill.
Read “Nike Turned Away a Public Health Official From Its Warehouse Days After a Worker With COVID-19 Died” at Pro Publica.
Read “Study Finds Black Lives Matter Protests Didn't Lead to Growth in Coronavirus Cases” at The Root.
Read “The U.S. divide on coronavirus masks” at Axios. “Mask-wearing has become the latest partisan division in an increasingly politically divided pandemic.”
Read “Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro was ordered by a federal judge on Tuesday to wear a face mask outside or be fined” at Axios.
Read “What Parents Can Learn From Child Care Centers That Stayed Open During Lockdowns” at NPR.
Read “Texas family shaken after 18 relatives test positive for COVID-19 following surprise birthday party.” at KSDK. “Three are now hospitalized, including two elderly family members and one woman battling breast cancer.”
Read “With COVID-19 Cases Rising, Some States Slow Their Reopening Plans” at NPR.
Read “CBS Reporter Becomes Internet Hero After Asking Trump Why He Keeps Hiring 'Wackos And Liars'“ at ComicSands.
Read ““William Barr Poses The Greatest Threat… To Our Rule Of Law” at News and Guts.
Read “Politics Influenced Justice Department In Roger Stone Case, DOJ Lawyer Tells Hill” at NPR.
Read “Prosecutor to tell Congress of pressure from ‘highest levels’ of Justice Dept. to cut Roger Stone ‘a break’” at Washington Post.
Read “Judge says Bolton can publish book despite efforts to block it” at 12 News.
Read “Stephen Colbert To John Bolton: “How Could You Be Naive?” at News and Guts.
Read “Appeals court orders dismissal of Michael Flynn's criminal case The decision was made, even though Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to prosecutors in special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation” at 12 News.
Read “In Arizona, Republicans worry about losing traction with independent voters In a state that could prove pivotal in both the presidential race and the fight for Senate control, Republicans are concerned about a shrinking base” at NBC News.
Read “A new Trump proclamation will block foreign workers It could affect hundreds of thousands of foreigners stranded abroad” at Vox.
Read "Trumps lose attempt to gag Mary Trump from publishing tell-all book as a judge dismisses petition for a protective order saying their claims are 'fatally defective' at NPR.
Read “Biden to accept nomination at pared-down Milwaukee convention” at Axios.
Read “Biden Takes Dominant Lead as Voters Reject Trump on Virus and Race” at New York Times.
Read “Trump Is Struggling To Run Against A White Guy” at The Atlantic.
Read “Devin Nunes can’t sue Twitter over statements by fake cow, judge rules’ at Fresno Bee.
Read “Black Progressives Appear To Surge In Primaries, While Trump-Backed Candidates Lose” at NPR.
Read “More Than 100 Veterans Sign Letter Condemning Sen. McSally” at KJZZ.
Read “24-Year-Old Easily Tops President Trump's Pick In N.C. Republican Primary” at NPR.
Read “Zuckerberg says he’s ‘disgusted’ by Trump’s rhetoric. It’s just crocodile tears” at Washington Post.
Read “Alaska's 'Into the Wild' bus, known as a deadly tourist lure, has been removed by air” at CNN.
Read “Philly shuts down dumpster pools: 'We are not screwing around' at USA Today.
Read “Bill Cosby’s appeal of sex-crime conviction accepted by state supreme court” at USA Today.
Read “Okayplayer CEO Abiola Oke Resigns, Company Cites Recent Allegations” at Exclaim.
Read “Tom Petty’s Family Blasts Trump For Using His Music At Tulsa Rally” at Stereogum.
Read “K-Pop Stans Take Credit For Ruining Trump’s Tulsa Rally” at Stereogum.
Read “Jefferson Airplane to Receive Star on Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2021” at Jambands.
Read “There is Now An Official Grateful Dead Deodorant” at Relix.
Half-year-end Half-lists:
Browse “The 33 Best Albums of 2020 So Far” at Treble.
Browse “The Best Of 2020 – Halftime Report A list of 72 Albums we've enjoyed from January to June” at Uncut.
Browse “Exclaim!'s 33 Best Albums of 2020 So Far”.
Read “Toil and Trouble: Uncle Tupelo’s ‘No Depression’ Turns 30” at No Depression.
Read “'I Have Had No Prouder Moment in Music': Run the Jewels On Capturing the Sound of American Rage” at Esquire.
Read “Sammy Hagar Is Willing to “Get Sick and Even Die” to Kickstart the Concert Industry Again” at Consequence of Sound.
Read “Barcelona opera house reopens with performance to 2,292 plants” at CNN.
Read “More Than 50 Years Ago Thelonious Monk Played A High School In California. Now The Album’s On Vinyl Everything You Need To Know About The Newly Discovered Lost Monk Album” at Vinyl Me Please.
Read “John Prine Scores First No. 1 Single with Final Recording “I Remember Everything” at Consequence of Sound.
Read “Nick Cave Explains Why He Doesn’t Write Protest Songs” at Stereogum.
Read “Paul McCartney Calls on Schools to Cease Serving Meat-Only Lunches "No one needs to eat meat, so it shouldn't be mandatory to serve it in schools" at Consequence of Sound.
Read “Warren Haynes Pens Op-Ed ‘A Change Is Gonna Come—Oh, Yes It Will’, Shares Accompanying Playlist” at Jambands.
Read “Dixie Chicks Change Name to The Chicks” at Pitchfork.
Browse “The Story of ’80s Texas Punk in 9 Photographs” at Pitchfork.
Read “'Brooklyn Nine-Nine' Creators Scrap Season 8, Plan to Start over Amid Police Brutality Protests” at Exclaim.
Read “Large iguana found in freezer of pizza restaurant in Florida.
Read “Large iguana found in freezer of pizza restaurant in Florida” at Boing Boing.
Read “An exploitative digital cult born from Facebook meme groups is imploding” at AV Club.
Read “Tourist's photo showing creature rising from water sparks online claims that it could be 'one of the best ever' pictures of Loch Ness Monster” at The Daily Mail.