  A 2 A.M. Talk With Rahul Dubey, the 'Absolute Legend' Sheltering Black Lives Matter Protesters It was around 8:30, and I took a quick stroll around the block. It was a three-quarter moon, and I went over to the FreeMason Temple, which is about a block away from my house to get some fresh air because I knew I'd be in for the rest of the night. I had just stepped outside on my stoop. Next thing I know there was a convergence outside on the corner of 15th and Swann, and police had created this blocked wall. We were kind of just holding off, and there was a bottleneck, so people couldn't go anywhere. A crowd had gathered outside of my house, and it got bigger and bigger, and the police crowd simultaneously was getting bigger and bigger, and they were pushing back. Before I knew it, it had happened really quick. A couple people had sat on my steps. We were talking about where they were coming from and one person asked if they could charge their phone in my house. Another person asked if they could use the bathroom because we were all holed up for like 25 minutes.
  James Baldwin: How to Cool It In Esquire's July 1968 issue, published just after the death of Martin Luther King, Jr., the magazine talked to James Baldwin about the state of race relations in the country. As that same country, more than 50 years later, struggles with the progress Baldwin speaks of, the landmark Q&A on race in America remains prescient.
 Insecure Star Kendrick Sampson: The First Time They Hit Me Was From Behind Among the masses taking to the streets in the past week to protest systemic racism in America was Kendrick Sampson, star of HBO's Insecure. For Sampson, what began as a peaceful day of protest quickly turned into a horrifying scene of police violence, with Sampson himself being struck by batons and shot with rubber bullets, leaving him bruised and bloody. Here, Sampson tells Esquire's Gabrielle Bruney how it all went down—and why it's important to tell these stories now.  When Will I Be Able to Retire This Essay? The righteous anger you see on the streets of America right now was sparked by the murder of George Floyd, but the systemic issues that have plagued America for its entire existance are brewing underneath it. For instance, the nation's response to COVID-19, particularly how it affects black and brown communities, has been a slow-moving tragedy. Rich Benjamin explains why the killing of Floyd and the inequities of our pandemic response are rooted in the same toxic brew of negligence, intransigence, racist double standards, and corporate favoritism that prior crises revealed.
 If You Say, Tweet, or Feel That Black Lives Matter, It's Time to Spend Your Money at Black Businesses Chef JJ Johnson made a name for himself at The Cecil in Harlem (Esquire's number one Best New Restaurant in 2014). He published a James Beard award-winning cookbook called Between Harlem and Heaven, then opened a fast-casual, rice-centric restaurant called FieldTrip in Harlem. Before that, however, New York City police pulled him over, assaulted him physically and verbally, and then charged him with assault. Johnson opens up about the experience, and calls upon the white culinary world—and its patrons—to do more than talk the talk.  50+ Black-Owned Fashion Brands and Stores to Support Now and Always It's on all of us as consumers to help push for substantive change. In other words, it's time to put your money where your mouth is. Direct donations are clearly the most effective way to support those who are marching around the world to demand change right now, but ongoing support of black-owned business is an important addition to that—especially in the long term. This list, which will be updated regularly, is not exhaustive. It is, however, a starting point for those looking to support black-owned menswear businesses fighting for the recognition they deserve from an industry that is still not designed to give it to them. It represents a microcosm of a much larger ecosystem that would benefit greatly from your contributions, now more than ever before. Black lives matter. So do your dollars. If you can spare a few, consider parting with them to support some of the businesses that need it most.
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Sunday, June 07, 2020
The D.C. Legend Who Sheltered 70+ Protesters Tells Us Why He Did It
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