Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Police arrested 74 people at a Black Lives Matter demonstration in Rochester, New York, on Friday amid nationwide protests against police shootings of black citizens. The Rochester demonstration was one of many held in the wake of deadly police shootings in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and suburban St. Paul, Minnesota, and came after the sniper attack…
rend image 12 News Officers deploy pepper spray on protesters in downtown Phoenix on July 8, 2016. Officers deploy pepper spray on protesters in downtown Phoenix on July 8, 2016. less PHOENIX – Police continued trying to disperse protesters gathered in downtown Phoenix hours after a planned rally got underway. Officers deployed tear gas to…
Warning: Pokemon GO is a Death Sentence if you are a Black Man. This week has been a catastrophe for Blackness…and it’s only Thursday. Two men, Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, were killed by police officers within 24 hours of each other. Neither had committed a crime that was punishable by death nor did they…
Ladies, what the fuck. We are (Lord willing) mere months away from finally having the first woman president. National female voices like Hillary Clinton and Elizabeth Warren and Ruth Bader Ginsburg appear stronger than ever. At the same time, personality journalism appears to be gazing longingly backwards toward an era full of Playboy bunnies and…
Former Fox News host Gretchen Carlson is suing the network’s CEO and chairman Roger Ailes, alleging a pervasive practice of sexual harassment. Now Ailes is vigorously denying her accusations and Fox’s parent company is conducting an “internal review.” Carlson, 50, was removed from her 2 p.m. newscast “The Real Story” in late June. The lawsuit…
Left: Daniel Holtzclaw, half Japanese American, convicted of raping and assaulting 13 black women on the job; Right: Peter Liang, Chinese-American, convicted of fatally shooting an unarmed, innocent black man As my black and brown friends on Facebook express grief and horror at the recorded murders of #AltonSterling and #PhilandoCastile, the majority of my Asian/Asian-American…
Let me say this right off the bat: I don’t at all condone any shooting of police officers or attacking them in any way. I hope that the people responsible are caught and punished to the fullest extent of the law – which, given that the attacks appear to have been premeditated and directed at…
Simon Pegg, who has co-written the latest Star Trek movie, as well as starring as Scotty, has responded to criticism by the actor George Takei at the film-makers’ decision to make the character he used to play openly gay. Takei was Hikaru Sulu, helmsman of the USS Enterprise, in the original TV series as well…
While the creative team—and the man currently playing Hikaru Sulu, John Cho—of Star Trek Beyond may have decided that including a scene of Sulu with his same sex partner wasn’t a big deal, George Takei had a different response. The actor who originated the role told the Hollywood Reporter, “I’m delighted that there’s a gay…
Judge Robin Camp berated a sexual assault victim during a trial. Photo: Tetra Images/Getty Images Canadian Federal Court Justice Robin Camp, who was investigated for making insensitive comments during a sexual-assault trial, would like to keep his job, please. Camp oversaw the trial of Alexander Scott Wagar, who was…