What I read today July 19

• WATCH: Beyoncé – SPIRIT from Disney’s The Lion King (Official Video)

• WATCH: Protesters shut down ICE headquarters in DC, Reuters

• 'It’s a joke. We can’t go on like this': fourth block of units abandoned in Sydney, Sydney Morning Herald

• Bushwick Food Coop Needs Help After Fire, BKLYNR

• One Bushwick, Two Visions: How Local Leaders’ Rezoning Proposal and the City’s Plan Match Up, City Limits

• Cornegy, Reynoso Jump Out Of Gate In BP’s Race, Kings County Politics

• Choose an incontinence pad for incontinence, not a menstrual pad, Dr. Jen Gunter

What I read today July 18

• Migrant Woman Testifies: My Child Died On What Is Mother's Day In My Country, NPR

• Mother Whose Child Died After ICE Detention Sues for $60 Million, NY Times

• The Battle of Grace Church, The Cut

• MOM TALK: I WANT TO TALK ABOUT BEING BLACK AND PREGNANT, Mother Mag

What I read today July 16

• How 'Woke' Liberals Convince Themselves That Gentrifying Is Okay, Vice

• READ: Here's The Resolution Condemning Trump's Racist Comments About Congresswomen, NPR

What I read today July 10

• Child Care Scarcity Has Very Real Consequences For Working Families, NPR

• What the Measles Epidemic Really Says About America, The Atlantic

What I read today July 9

• Cities Start to Question an American Ideal: A House With a Yard on Every Lot, NY Times

• Charles Fréger photographs the sartorial subversion of colonial narratives, It’s Nice That

What I read today July 8

• Kids Don’t Say ‘Yes, Ma’am’ Anymore, but Politeness Is Still in Fashion, NY TImes

• I Shouldn’t Be Forced to Give Birth to a Baby Who Won’t Live, NY Times

What I read today July 4

• Cyclists And Truck Drivers Clash At Vigil For Devra Freelander, Gothamist

• London Is Going to Ban the Deadliest Trucks From Its Streets, Streets Blog

• Why American Trucks Are So Deadly for Pedestrians and Cyclists, Streets Blog

• What a Pediatrician Saw Inside a Border Patrol Warehouse, The Atlantic

What I read today July 3

• ‘As a Father ...’, The Atlantic

• What If Teachers Didn’t Focus So Much on Individual Achievement?, The Atlantic

• How Do Rich Neighborhoods Exist So Close to Poor Ones?, The Atlantic

• What To Do If Someone 'Steals' Your Baby Name, HuffPost

• After 6-Year Battle, Florida Couple Wins The Right To Plant Veggies In Front Yard, NPR

What I read today July 1

• Children wise to fear hand dryers, and 13-year-old proves it with published paper, CBC

What I read today June 28

• Student Journalist Uncovers High School’s Use of Prison Labor, NY Times

• Massachusetts Judge Charged With Helping Undocumented Immigrant Escape ICE, Huff Post

What I read today June 27

• Supreme Court Leaves Citizenship Question Blocked For Now From 2020 Census, NPR

• Alabama Woman Who Was Shot While Pregnant Is Charged in Fetus’s Death, NY Times

What I read today June 26

• A book club inspires a store owner to launch day camps, Crain’s

What I read today June 25

• The Overprotected American Child, WSJ

• AT&T sued over hidden fee that raises mobile prices above advertised rate, ars technica

What I read today June 24

• It’s a Girl! It’s a Boy! And for the Gender-Reveal Cake, It May Be the End, NY Times

• Sandy Hook Victim's Father Wins Defamation Suit; Alex Jones Sanctioned, NPR

• WATCH: A firsthand report of ‘inhumane conditions’ at a migrant children’s detention facility, PBS Newshour

What I read today June 21

• Attorneys: Texas border facility is neglecting migrant kids, AP

What I read today June 19

• Column: Let’s talk about whether Harvard should forgive Kyle Kashuv’s youthful mistakes. Then let’s talk about whether black kids are forgiven for theirs., Chicago Tribune

• Forgiveness Is a White Privilege, The Root

• Chicago PD Settles for $2.5 Million After Police Point Gun at 3-Year-Old, The Root

What I read today June 18

• ‘Don’t ever leave’: A native New Yorker reflects on four decades in NYC, Curbed

What I read today June 17

• Jenny Lewis Starts Over, Rolling Stones
  A woman in the bathroom told me that I looked summery, like Jenny Lewis. And now I’m listening to her music, feeling like I’m in college again. Weird nostalgic vibes.

• Jenny Lewis Is Still Figuring It Out, The Cut

What I read today June 14

• Premature baby found in Border Patrol facility in Texas, AP

What I read today June 12

• Dr. Ruth, Dr. Kissinger, and Trump’s Cruelty to Families, The New Yorker

• Landmark Deal Reached on Rent Protections for Tenants in N.Y., NY Times

• Dozens of Women Vanish on Canada’s Highway of Tears, and Most Cases Are Unsolved, NY Times

• Celebrating the Grace of Black Women, NY Times

• Obese mannequins are selling women a dangerous lie, The Telegraph

• Hong Kong stocks fall as huge protests hit financial center, CNN

• Bill de Blasio: Our new push to diversify NYC schools, NY Daily News