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Black Activists Speak Out • Pandemic Profiteers Get Richer • Snapchat Slams Trump [View in your browser]( | [Update your preferences](newsletter=vf) [Vanity Fair]( Fit to Print? Good morning from the Hive newsroom! New York Times higher-ups will hold an employee town hall today in response to the newsroom revolt over Tom Cotton’s “Send in the Troops” op-ed, a viewpoint many staffers saw as endangering their black colleagues, Joe Pompeo [reports](. “It feels like a boiling point,” says one Times source. Journalist Jimmie Briggs [reflects]( on white friends and colleagues coming to grips with America’s “system of white supremacy” and Arimeta Diop [speaks with]( black activists about the intergenerational movement. Also, William D. Cohan [explores]( how the rich are getting richer during the pandemic. Thanks for reading. [New York Times Employees Rebel Against Tom Cotton’s Send-in-the-Troops Op-Ed]( By [Joe Pompeo]( [With reporters in harm’s way covering the protests, Cotton’s op-ed “pours gasoline on the fire,” in an escalation in the series of conflicts between James Bennet’s Opinion department and the newsroom.]( [Image]( [The Hive 1]( [“No, I Am Not Okay”: A Black Journalist Addresses His White Friends]( By [Jimmie Briggs]( [With a new daughter entering a world defined by protests and a pandemic, a middle-aged father feels his faith in America—or, more accurately, “Great-Again America”—slipping away.]( [Read More]( [The Hive 2]( [“We Have to Keep Repeating Ourselves Just to Be Able to Breathe”: Black Activists on the Movement for Justice]( By [Arimeta Diop]( [This moment is all too familiar for activists like Rachel Cargle, Brittany Packnett Cunningham, and others who are relying on radical hope and intergenerational resolve to keep the movement for Black liberation moving forward.]( [Read More]( [The Hive 3]( [How Pandemic Profiteers Are Getting Richer With the Fed’s Easy Money]( By [William D. Cohan]( [The flood of cash has changed the risk equation. And in these strange conditions, some of Wall Street’s richest investors are pooling money to go on buying sprees.]( [Read More]( [The Hive 4]( [Is Trump’s Social Media Firewall Starting to Crumble?]( By [Caleb Ecarma]( [First Twitter, now Snapchat is limiting the reach of the president’s account for promoting violence and hate. At least he still has Facebook.]( [Read More]( [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Instagram]( [LinkedIn]( This e-mail was sent to you by The Hive. To ensure delivery to your inbox (not bulk or junk folders), please add our e-mail address, vanityfair@newsletter.vf.com, to your address book. View our [Privacy Policy]( [Unsubscribe]( Sent from Condé Nast, 1 World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007 Copyright © 2020 Condé Nast