Why a black Elizabeth Holmes would be progress. (If you missed this Rebecca Solnit piece on a different police shooting that happened because the new residents of a gentrifying neighborhood called the cops, now is a good time to revisit it.) The LA Times series on Lincoln Heights continues to be great-including this latest installment, which is about the heartbreaking mechanics of eviction and displacement. Rahawa Haile on walking from Selma to Montgomery. On the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination, police shot and killed an unarmed man in Brooklyn. The devastating story of what happened when one undocumented teen decided to cooperate with authorities to save his life.
