This week, BuzzFeed News editor Adam Serwer asks how a city with black representation in power erupted in riots not seen since Martin Luther King Jr. was killed. Read that and others from Medium, the New York Times, and The Nation.
"The Biggest Mystery of Baltimore’s Riots" — BuzzFeed Ideas
BuzzFeed News editor Adam Serwer looked back to April 1968, when Baltimore burned shortly after Martin Luther King Jr.'s death. Fifty years later, the city has erupted into riots again. Even with blacks in city government and on the police force, inequality persists. "Instead of a beacon of hope, black representation has become a bitterly ironic symbol of how little has changed," he writes. Read it at BuzzFeed Ideas.
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"Black Exhaustion" — Medium
Pilot Viruet wrote a poignant piece on what it's like to be black. "Increasingly, I am learning, remaining alive while black is a radical act," she writes. At the same time, however, it is exhausting constantly having to worry about her own existence and the lives of her black brothers and sisters. Read it at Medium.
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"Mormon, Childless, and Constantly Condescended To" — BuzzFeed Ideas
It's no secret that more women are delaying marriage and childbirth in order to pursue higher education and to establish their careers, but Jennifer Purdie doesn't want to have children at all. Purdie, who is a 38-year-old Mormon, wrote about what it's like to reject motherhood as a woman whose religious identity is tied so closely to homemaking. Read it at BuzzFeed Ideas.
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"No Labels, No Drama, Right?" — New York Times
Jordana Narin wrote an essay on that one person you never had, the one whom you semi-dated but never told how you really felt. In it, she explains what it's like being steeped in the past and longing for a relationship that never truly began. Read it at the New York Times.
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