What I read today, Oct 17

• A Fig Tree Dies in Brooklyn, and in Other Boroughs, NY Times
• A Black Woman Created the “Me Too” Campaign Against Sexual Assault 10 Years Ago, Ebony
• One Girl’s Re-Examination of Sweet Valley High: Double Love, Wit & Delight
• #SolidarityIsForWhiteWomen Part 2: On Rose McGowan and the Continued Failure of White Feminism, The Root
• Women’s work is still work, The Outline
• Bordeaux Sells in de Blasio’s Brooklyn, The New Yorker
  The "animated community-garden meeting" is Patchen Community Square
• Photos: al-Qaeda-linked militants kill more than 320 in Somalia truck bomb attack, Vox
• Why a Local Museum Keeps Burying Whales Under Raleigh, North Carolina, Atlas Obscura