Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor:

— Of Course There Are Protests. The State Is Failing Black People. (The New York Times)

— Why U.S. Needs Black Lives Matter Movement Today (NPR)

Eddie Glaude:

—Protests Indicate US Is On ‘Cusp Of Fundamental Transformation,’ Eddie Glaude Says (WBUR)

—Eddie Glaude on death of George Floyd: ‘Police don’t value the lives of black folk’ (MSNBC)

—‘It’s a blue-soaked anger’: Amid protests, African Americans feel a private grief (The Washington Post)

—With ‘shooting’ tweet, Trump inflames rather than soothes tensions amid Minneapolis unrest (The Washington Post)

—George Floyd’s Murder Shows Once More That We Cannot Wait For White America to End Racism (TIME)

Omar Wasow:

—How Violent Protests Change Politics (The New Yorker)

—What the 1960s can teach us about modern-day protests (PBS News Hour)

Julian Zelizer:

—Buildings burn, and Trump talks tough. Where are the healers? (The Washington Post)

—It’s been five decades since 1968, and things are somehow worse (CNN)