What I read today Sept 11
Here’s What the Watermelon Was Up to Before It Tasted Good, Atlas Obscura
Kamala Harris Stumps Brett Kavanaugh with Abortion Question, Broadly
It Came From the '70s: The Story of Your Grandma's Weird Couch, Collectors Weekly
James Baldwin's Sole Children's Book Comes Back into Print, Publishers Weekly
Performing Blackness Won't Fill Our Asian-American Culture Deficit [OP-ED], Colorlines
Prison labor is modern slavery. I've been sent to solitary for speaking out, The Guardian
How the Smithsonian Helped Sleuth Out the True Identity of a Pair of Dorothy’s Ruby Slippers, SmithsonianMag
Xiaohe: A 4000-Year-Old Desert Cemetery, Amusing Planet