The New Yorker - USA (2020-07-27)

THENEWYORKER,JULY27, 2020 19 about what the movement hopes to achieve, and about its prospects for success. T he phrase “bla ...

20 THENEWYORKER,JULY27, 2020 became the most recognizable figures associated with the movement in Fer- guson. For their effor ...

THENEWYORKER,JULY27, 2020 21 tion of activists who have surveyed the circumstances of his Presidency and drawn the opposite ...

22 THENEWYORKER,JULY27, 2020 wanted to see “dead cops.” The event was part of the Millions March, which was led by a coalitio ...

THENEWYORKER,JULY27, 2020 23 as federal surveillance and infiltration programs sowed discord that all but wrecked the Black ...

24 THENEWYORKER,JULY27, 2020 James Hansen on curbing coal emissions: “The science is clear. This is our one chance.” PROFILES ...

THENEWYORKER,JULY27, 2020 25 Hansen insists that his intent is not to be provocative but conservative: his only aim is to pr ...

26 THENEWYORKER,JULY27, 2020 he prepared a detailed presentation ti- tled “The Forcings Underlying Climate Change.” In 2003, ...

THENEWYORKER,JULY27, 2020 27 free state,” Hansen said. “It will take a while to get there—ice sheets don’t melt instantaneou ...

direction, in the direction of making the change worse and faster.” “In nearly all areas, the developments are occurring more qu ...

THENEWYORKER,JULY27, 2020 29 wrote a few weeks ago, referring to a cap-and-trade system, “is ‘Well, you are right, it’s no g ...

30 THENEWYORKER,JULY27, 2020 PROFILES OCTOBER27, 2003 GHOSTS IN THE HOUSE How Toni Morrison fostered a generation of black wr ...

“Being a black woman writer is not a shallow place to write from,” Morrison says. “It doesn’t limit my imagination; it expands i ...

run was modest: two thousand copies in hardcover. Now a first edition can fetch upward of six thousand dollars. In 2000, when “T ...

THENEWYORKER,JULY27, 2020 33 that Morrison was not made to follow in her footsteps. “I remember going out­ side to hang some ...

34 THENEWYORKER,JULY27, 2020 Morrison said. “There was something called ‘the paper-bag test’—darker than the paper bag put yo ...

One of the few critics to embrace Morrison’s work was John Leonard, who wrote in the Times, “Miss Morrison ex- poses the negativ ...

36 THENEWYORKER,JULY27, 2020 line. And I didn’t want to fail my grand- mother. I didn’t want to hear her say, ‘You went to co ...

THENEWYORKER,JULY27, 2020 37 ist.... We are determined to bring to the large community of Black artists and Black people in ...

38 THENEWYORKER,JULY27, 2020 own words.... She seems to view her people as mere spokes of style, who exist to keep her lyrici ...