Hello all,
Lots of processing, change, healing, etc. going on. A few pieces here that might be of interest here.
best,
Lester
Poetry
"Minneapolis, Revisited" By Shannon Gibney (originally published in Under Purple Skies)
Junauda Petrus Reads Her Poem: Give The Police Departments to the Grandmothers:
Bookstores, Arts Organizations
His bookstores burned. Don Blyly wants to keep selling
Photos of Springboard for the Arts arsonists (ATF)
His work ruined in rioting, a 90-year-old Minneapolis artist starts anew (Star Tribune)
Unable to show their work, arts organizations protect neighborhoods, feed those in need (Star Tribune)
Minnesota businesses, nonprofits see surge in giving — mostly from out-of-state donors (Star Tribune)
New Dawn Theatre and Artists Collaborate for a Tribute Honoring George Floyd (MSP Mag)
More donation sites
MIGIZI (destroyed in fire, archive lost)
Reflection & Reporting
Love, History, Hope: In the wake of George Floyd’s killing, three black Twin Cities authors look to the past, to their families and to the community as they make a plea for change, by Michael Kleber Diggs, Junauda Petrus-Nasah and Shannon Gibney (Star Tribune)
As Police Attack Protesters in Minneapolis, Speculations About “Outsiders” Draw on Fraught History, by Mara Hvistendahl (The Intercept)
Minneapolis Had This Coming: My hometown faces not just a rebuilding but a reckoning. (The Atlantic)
Nice protest dispatch from Luke Mogelson (whose tires were slashed by police): In Minneapolis, Protesters Confront the Police—and One Another (New Yorker)
Coming Into a Black Woman’s Anger: On Audre Lorde and Minnesota Nice (Belt Magazine)
The Two Autopsies Of George Floyd Aren’t As Different As They Seem, by Maggie Koerth (538)
Amazing stuff here: George Floyd murals, graffiti on boarded-up Twin Cities businesses spread a message of pain — and hope (Star Tribune)
Inspiration
Still not Cleveland.
Cleveland Tourism Bureau Struggles to Build on Mayor Frank Jackson’s ‘Butthole of the World’ Campaign
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