How Black Lives Matter Activists Build On Previous Generations of Work; Wonder Woman 1984 Streaming Alternatives; and More

[Plus: Sidney Poitier’s Message to White America]( [View in your browser]( | [Update your preferences](newsletter=vf) [Vanity Fair’s Cocktail Hour Newsletter]( A daily digest of things to discuss over drinks June 05, 2020 [“We Have to Keep Repeating Ourselves Just to Be Able to Breathe”]( [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 »]( [Niecy Nash on the Heartbreak and Rage of Black Parents]( [The star of When They See Us and Mrs. America talks about the awful lessons of George Floyd’s death.]( [READ MORE »]( [How Meghan Markle Decided to Finally Speak Out About George Floyd]( [“It wasn’t easy, but she was determined to say something,” said a source about her video address to graduates of Immaculate Heart High School. “These are her words, her sentiments—it’s 100% her.”]( [READ MORE »]( [Why New York Times Employees Rebelled Against Tom Cotton’s Op-Ed]( [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.]( [READ MORE »]( [Gal Gadot in Wonder Woman 1984.]( [Wish You Could See Wonder Woman 1984? Here’s What to Watch Instead]( [The sequel was set to arrive in theaters today—before the coronavirus pandemic forced its delay. Perhaps one of these films would be a worthy substitute.]( [READ MORE »]( [Ivanka Trump’s Max Mara Handbag Probably Won’t Sell Quite Like Nancy Pelosi’s Max Mara Coat]( [The maker of Pelosi’s #resistance fashion was also behind Trump’s photo op accessory.]( [READ MORE »]( [From the Archive: Pride and Prejudice]( [As race riots swept the nation in the summer of 1967, its most beloved movie actor was Sidney Poitier, whose three films that year—To Sir, With Love; In the Heat of the Night; and Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner—would also make him Hollywood’s box office king. Charting Poitier’s coolly uncompromising navigation of his symbolic status, Laura Jacobs recalls the pointed message he sent to white America.]( [READ MORE »]( [][Vanity Fair]( [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Instagram]( [YouTube]( This e-mail was sent to you by VANITY FAIR. 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]( Copyright © Condé Nast 2020. One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.