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

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2020 has seen a world in crisis, but leaders, scientists, tech- nologists, and activists across the globe are working to make th ...

4 GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN 11 THE TALK OF THE TOWN David Remnick on the legacy of John Lewis’s bravery; Langston Hughes remembered; ...

2 THENEWYORKER,JULY27, 2020 Michael Specter (“Public Nuisance,” p. 40), a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1998, is an a ...

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The outdoor exhibition “Monuments Now,” at Socrates Sculpture Park, in Long Island City (through March), feels attuned to this u ...

THENEWYORKER,JULY27, 2020 5 ILLUSTRATION BY SADDO The sound of dissent takes many forms—voices rising, chants echoing. In Ne ...

6 THENEWYORKER,JULY27, 2020 1 THETHEATRE The Line Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen, the co-creators of “The Exonerated” and “Co ...

THENEWYORKER,JULY27, 2020 7 © JA’TOVIA GARY / COURTESY PAULA COOPER GALLERY Early in her rhapsodic forty-minute film, “The G ...

8 THENEWYORKER,JULY27, 2020 1 For more reviews, visit newyorker.com/goings-on-about-town ALAMY William Greaves, who directed ...

THENEWYORKER,JULY27, 2020 9 PHOTOGRAPH BY BUBI CANAL FOR THE NEW YORKER; ILLUSTRATION BY JOOST SWARTE 1 TABLESFORTWO Ras Pla ...

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THENEWYORKER,JULY27, 2020 11 COMMENT REDEEMINGAMERICA J ohn Robert Lewis was born in 1940 near the Black Belt town of Troy, ...

12 THENEWYORKER,JULY27, 2020 1 DECEMBER30, 1967 HUGHESATCOLUMBIA O n a miserably wet evening seven months after the death of ...

THENEWYORKER,JULY27, 2020 13 1 FEBRUARY 22, 1969 HEARING I n each of the past three years, the New York State Legislature ha ...

14 THENEWYORKER,JULY27, 2020 reform, began enumerating the commis­ sion’s recommendations. Suddenly, a young, neatly dressed ...

THENEWYORKER,JULY27, 2020 15 when someone would get arrested, the first phone call was to Lorena,” Strangio said. In 2012, t ...

16 THENEWYORKER,JULY27, 2020 LETTER FROM JACKSONAUGUST29, 1964 PLANE TO MISSISSIPPI An encounter with Martin Luther King, Jr. ...

THENEWYORKER,JULY27, 2020 17 a remark for what it was worth and de- cided not to bring up its more obvious weaknesses, but h ...

18 THENEWYORKER,JULY27, 2020 O n February 18th, as part of the official recognition of Black His- tory Month, President Obama ...