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Photo: Maddie Meyer (Getty Images) In the midst this year’s national protests against the police killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and numerous other Black Americans, video clips posted by reporters and other people on social media showed police across the country responding to the protests with violence that exhibited …

Tim Lahan This article was published online on December 19, 2020. With the nap, it can go either way. It can succeed, which is to say it can perform its function of refreshment and revival. Twenty minutes or so of light, untroubled sleep, just when you need it. After lunch, …

Written by Demetria Wambia George C. Wolfe directed the Netflix film adaptation of August Wilson’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom and the project is a sight to behold. Wilson’s careful text is re-imagined with the vivid colors, angles, and magic of modern-day filmmaking and production value, taking the work to another level. Academy Award winner Viola …

Maisha Oni Muhammad-Brinkley, a respiratory therapist from Texas affectionately referred to by her patients as “The Breathing Lady”, has sadly died of COVID-19. She had been tirelessly working on the front lines. “She took care of a lot of homeless people that actually would speak to her when we would …

Photo: Scott Olson (Getty Images) The relatives of one of the men who were in the Tuskegee syphilis study say they will take the COVID-19 vaccine as soon as they can get it. During the study, which researchers from the Public Health Service and Tuskegee Health Institute ran from 1932 …

This is The Atlantic’s weekly email to subscribers—a close look at the issues our newsroom is watching, just for you. The timeline of how COVID-19 took hold in America can feel disorienting. From March, when the coronavirus began to spread across certain communities in the United States, …

Written by Arisha Hatch, Vice President, Color Of Change Color Of Change is always challenging the written and unwritten rules to pass laws to protect Black people, and we #TellBlackStories — bringing together changemakers and celebrities to talk about the issues that affect Black communities the most.   Black people …

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has announced significant changes to the way selective middle and high schools admit their students. The changes are intended to address admissions policies that discriminate against and segregate Black and Latino students in the nation’s largest school district. According to the New York …

Photo: Benedek Alpar (Shutterstock) In further proof that Trump supporters are the worst kind of trash, a Black family in Texas had their cars set ablaze and “Trump 2020” spray-painted on their garage door. NBC News reports that 36-year-old Jayla Gipson said her adult son was using the restroom shortly …

This chart shows the states where hospitalizations hit at least 300 people per million in at least two nonconsecutive weeks, according to data from the COVID Tracking Project at The Atlantic. This level of hospitalization is a good measure of the pandemic’s local severity, both because it captures serious cases …