Five Findings

Commemorating a History of Violence

1. In an effort to regain humanity in America, black men are wearing suits just to be recognized as human, and not end up a hoodie wearing statistic. “It’s like armor to me.”
2. Even as the Japanese state began to collapse and terms of surrender were underway, America set out to prove its barbarism with geopolitical posturing, “Look, we have a doomsday device and are willing to use it on civilian populations.”
3. Thank twitter and instagram for the new civil rights movement that began and won’t end, it let people finally become their own storytellers. Deray talks about how “we seized the power of truth.”
4. All lives matter is a lie when remembering the brutality of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Arthur Chu looks at the atomic bomb apologism, revisionist history, the sanctity of American lives and our moral myopia.
5. One year after Ferguson, WaPo looks at the 24 unarmed black men who have been killed by police since, to see if anything has changed. “Prior to Ferguson, police were politically untouchable.”

Findings sourced from @yungrama and folks like you.