Time Int 08 3 2020

96 Pages·2020·74.44 MB·English

JOHN LEWIS

1940 – 2020

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ON THE
COVER:
Photograph
by Steve
Schapiro—
Getty Images

2 | Conversation
4 | For the Record
The Brief
News from the U.S.
and around the
world

5 | Jobless
without a net

8 | Asia’s COVID
resurgence

9 | Civil rights
icon C.T. Vivian

10 | Endangered
American
heritage

12 | TIME with ...
travel guru Rick
Steves

14 | Feds
descend on Main
Street

The View
Ideas, opinion,
innovations

17 | Jeffrey
Kluger on
why virus
misinformation
goes viral

19 | Ian
Bremmer on
a different
Russian populist

19 | Put on your
best face for the
next video call

20 | Thirty years
after the ADA
and still fighting

Time Off
What to watch, read,
see and do

83 | Where to
find binge­
worthy favorites

86 | TV: A
Charles Manson
docuseries; a
Welsh dramedy;
and Muppets
magic, updated

88 | Movies:
Rosamund Pike
as Madame Curie
in Radioactive

90 | Books:
Emma
Donoghue’s
latest; the
realities of
postpartum
psychosis; and a
painter’s Luster

92 | 7 Questions
for NASCAR
driver Bubba
Wallace

Features
John Lewis: 1940–2020
The speech 22 The interview 28Plus:
Remembrances from Brittany Packnett
Cunningham, Bob Moses, and Dorie Ladner and
Joyce Ladner 32
Never Trumpers Strike Back
The Republicans trying to oust the President
ByTessa Berenson and AlanaAbramson 38
Star Warriors
Inside America’s very real Space Force
ByW.J.Hennigan 44
The Discomforts of Home
The pandemic’s toll on kids’ mental health
ByJeffrey Kluger 52
Back to School?
There may be more than one right answer
By Molly Ball and Katie Reilly 56
Anatomy of a Pandemic
The hunt for “patient zero” and the
groundbreaking global effort to map the virus
By Charlie Campbell and Alice Park 64
Unhoused
How Constance Woodson found herself homeless
during lockdown By Belinda Luscombe 74
Caste and Country
Author Isabel Wilkerson’s epic chronicle of
America’s hierarchies ByJustin Worland 78

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VOL. 196, NOS. 5–6 | 2020

△
Children line
up for school
at Wesley
Elementary in
Middletown,
Conn., on
July 20

Photograph by
Gillian Laub
for TIME

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TIME August 3/August 10, 2020

AMERICAN IDENTITY
RE “THE MODEL MINORITY
Trap” [July 6–13]: I applaud
Viet Thanh Nguyen for dis-
secting how America came
to be what it is today . Identi-
fying white supremacy and
capitalist exploitation as the
root cause of all this is the
fi rst step to bringing justice
to George Floyd and count-
less others who were treated
as just another piece of prop-
erty and then insouciantly
destroyed.

Tetsuro Umeji,

KUDAMATSU CITY, JAPAN

THIS POWERFUL AND MOV-
ing article left me in tears.
It made me see clearly that
every one of us as Ameri-
cans must choose solidarity
or complicity when we see
the abuse of power. We are
citizens of “the greatest pur-
veyor of violence in the world
today.” That violence ends
in privileges that we benefi t
from in varying degrees. We
can use those privileges for
the good of our planet or for
selfi sh ends. The choice is
ours , especially those of us
in the white community. The
choice is also ours as we vote
this November.

Judy Peace,

SANTA MONICA, CALIF.

HOPE FOR DEMOCRACY
RE “TRENCH LAWFARE”
[July 6–13]: This article gave
me hope after spending years
of watching the presidential

power grabs, the chipping
away of belief in the Fourth
Estate (the press), which in-
validates our ability to seek
out and believe the truth,
and the erosion of the checks
and balances in government
that keep our democracy
strong. Thank you to Protect
Democracy, the nonprofi t
group highlighted in your
article. May it serve us long
and well.

Sara Boyles,

OLYMPIA, WASH.

KAEPERNICK’S MOMENT
RE “A NEW ERA FOR ATH-
LETES” [July 6–13]: Colin
Kaepernick, the NFL quar-
terback, must be looking on
in amazement as “taking a
knee” has become the norm
for people showing solidarity
with the Black Lives Matter
movement at events across
the world . Considering the
opprobrium and ostracism
that he endured for his cou-
rageous stance, isn’t it time
an NFL team gave him a job
while re-evaluating their po-
sitions on the subject of rac-
ism and Black Lives Matter?

Ellen Godsall, LONDON

NO NEED FOR LABELS
RE “RETHINK HOW WE CEL-
ebrate Power” [July 6–13]:
While I agree with and sup-
port most of what Thomas
J. Price wrote in his piece, I
am uneasy with his defi n-
ing white people in general
as people “whose ancestors

have benefi ted from slavery.”
Discrimination and confl icts
start with labeling people and
putting them in boxes, and
making sure they keep apart.
As long as we keep labeling
the boxes, those who mean to
keep us apart will win.

Laurence Duval,
REIMS, FRANCE

TIMELESS IDEALS
RE “WILL HAMILTON RESO-
nate in 2020’s America?”
[July 6–13]: The white slave-
holders in Hamilton were
fl awed, but throughout his-
tory, Black people, Native
Americans, immigrants, to-
day’s youths, and political ac-
tivists around the world have
pointed to and relied on the
principles that our Founding
Fathers studied and incor-
porated in the Declaration of
Independence and the First
Amendment. The “expira-
tion dates” on these impor-
tant documents have not

arrived, and they never will.

LuAnne Feik,

MADISON, WIS.

THE FIGHT CONTINUES
RE “WE’RE ALL SUFFERING
From Coronavirus Caution
Fatigue” [July 6–13]: We are
not all suff ering from caution
fatigue. My actions in June
were the same as they were in
March, April and May. I don’t
want the virus , and I’ll con-
tinue to do what I can to pre-
vent myself from getting it.

Guy Luneau,

SHERWOOD, ARK.

Conversation

SETTING THE RECORD
STRAIGHT ▶ In “Trench Lawfare”
(July 6/July 13), we misstated the re-
lationship between the President and
a woman suing him; she is a former
contestant on The Apprentice. In the
same issue, in “The Model Minority
Trap,” we misspelled the last name
of Jason Andersen, the police offi cer
who killed Fong Lee. And a photo in
Milestones appeared with an incor-
rect caption; it showed Jean Kennedy
Smith in 1965.

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