#sundayread for October 27, 2019
By Wade Kwon
Photo: John Beans (CC)
My picks for #sundayread for October 27, 2019:
- I listened to James Baldwin’s “If Beale Street Could Talk,” and it was even better than the great 2018 film adaptation.
[aff. link] https://amzn.to/2peZRiX - When “Not Guilty” Is a Life Sentence
By @MacMcClelland - Police Are Trained to Fear
By Larry Smith @ljsmith3663
(via @warondumb) - Flashback: Ten years ago, Birmingham mayor Larry Langford found guilty of bribery, fraud, conspiracy
#Bham #alpolitics - Tekashi 6ix9ine: The Rise and Fall of a Hip-Hop Supervillain
By @StephenWitt - “You’re gonna kill me!”: Dallas police bodycam footage reveals final minutes of Tony Timpa’s life
By @CaryAspinwall and @Dave_Boucher1
(via @sundaylongread) - Flashback: Ten years ago, the aftermath of the Larry Langford administration
#Bham #alpolitics - The Life and Death of an Instafish
By Miranda Collinge @Collface
(via @sundaylongread) - Dirty farm water is making us sick
By Elizabeth Shogren @ShogrenE and @SusieNeilson
(via @GeorgeLakoff) - Flashback: Ten years ago, Carole Smitherman becomes Birmingham’s first female mayor
https://itswa.de/2UDEnn #Bham #alpolitics - Q&A with musical icon @SherylCrow
By @NatalieWeiner
(via @sundaylongread) - How the military handles sexual assault cases behind closed doors
By @CraigMWhitlock - Road rage, a bullet to the head — and the frantic effort to save a 4-year-old
By @JohnWoodrowCox - Meet the weirdo battling climate change through a strict low-carbon lifestyle.
By @KateGBlack
(via @sundaylongread)
More posts from Wade this week:
More #sundayread:
- All tweets for October 27 #sundayread
- The latest #sundayread tweets
- More #sundayread recommendations from me
