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Your Friday Evening Briefing

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Jacob Blake, Plasma, September Books View in browser | nytimes.com Continue reading the main story August 28, 2020 Your Friday Evening Briefing By Remy Tumin and Merrill D. Oliver Good evening. Here’s the latest. Michael A. McCoy for The New York Times 1. The reckoning over racial justice continues to ripple across the country. Thousands gathered at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington for a protest aiming to recall the 1963 March on Washington and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech. Attendees were screened for fevers, and masks and hand-sanitizing stations were ubiquitous. The N.B.A. and its players’ union announced a plan to use arenas as election polling places as part of a deal to resume the playoffs on Saturday , two days after players staged a dramatic work stoppage in response to the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wis. Mr. Blake, a Black man who was shot by a white police officer last weekend, had been...

Daily Skimm: That's the goddess in me

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Skimm'd while talking about building a support system with Leslie Blodgett August 28, 2020 Read in Browser Skimm'd while talking about building a support system with Leslie Blodgett Quote of the Day "You are what you drink" – Snoop Dogg , who's got a wine label now. Crop it like it's hot. It's On The Story President Trump is officially running for reelection. Didn't that happen...a while ago? Now it's official, official. Yesterday, Trump formally accepted the Republican nomination for president at the White House in front of more than 1,500 people . In his speech , the president appealed to evangelical...