For over a month now, we've been raising money and awareness for racial, economic, and social justice with the work of 68 artists. To date, Photographs for Purpose has raised more than $27,000 for Equal Justice Initiative, Coalition of Immokalee Workers, Southerners on New Ground, Birmingham Chapter, Planned Parenthood. photographsforpurpose.com

Sunday John Lewis will make his last trip over the Edmund Pettus bridge. ⁦Rick Rojas⁩ nytimes.com/2020/07/25/us/…

Latest for The New York Times from Miami, Florida. nytimes.com/2020/07/25/us/…

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Quite the team here.

Oh no. Oh... no.

Inbox: Florida Department of Corrections announces the death of Corrections Officer Joe Foster. I reported it in Miami Herald August 4. miamiherald.com/news/special-r…

Chilling. Check on your friends and family. Be kind.

Text from my writer friend who sold a many-thousand-word story to a national magazine last October and is ghosted every few weeks then promised the story will run soon

A letter from Cherokee County:

On this site, if you’re not on the extremes, you lose whenever you engage provocation. The hard left and right can say anything without cost. Moderates have to ignore or respond carefully, with a hand tied behind the back. It’s like playing a video game on a much tougher setting.

Florida has a mandate for schools in most places to reopen in person by the end of the month. Thirteen counties reopened last week. In Martin County, 310 students have been told to quarantine for possible coronavirus exposure since Aug. 11. With Manny Fernandez nytimes.com/2020/08/19/us/…

Books by Zora Neale Hurston and Toni Morrison were taken off the shelves, and holiday photo cards sent by friends were edited so that only those showing white families were left on display. nytimes.com/2020/08/25/rea…

If you ever danced to a zydeco accordion or waltzed to a Cajun fiddle, if you ever ate gumbo or crawfish or, if you were really lucky, boudin, get ready to open your wallet and help the hell out of the people of south Louisiana.

It's likely too late for the president to do much to stop what's happening right now, even if he was willing to. But he has 14 days left of his term and now he has a playbook for how he can demonstrate what he sees as power. What happens over 14 days?

I finally rebuilt my website, and I'm really proud to have all the work collected in one place. Hope you'll check it out. michael-adno.com

In his 50 years at the New Orleans Museum of Art, William Fagaly made substantial contributions in the areas of Southern outsider art and contemporary art. But he was best known for vastly expanding the museum's African art collection. He has died at 83. nyti.ms/2SNTeD2