Will Trump’s Tulsa Circus Spike COVID-19?

[View in your browser]( | [Update your preferences](newsletter=vf) [Vanity Fair HIVE PS]( Will Trump’s Tulsa Circus Spike COVID-19? Good Saturday morning, dear reader! As ever, do pardon the intrusion as you indulge in Frances Ellen Watkins Harper’s Forest Leaves, say, or perhaps Iola Leroy. But we would be loath to deprive you of the latest episode of Emily Jane Fox and Joe Hagan’s Inside the Hive podcast, or Katherine Eban’s chilling dispatch from Tulsa health care experts. We hope you are enjoying what you’re reading (and listening to). And don’t forget to [subscribe to Vanity Fair.]( Emily Jane Fox [“Nothing Ever Ends Well With Him”: Trump’s Ex Adviser on His General Election Chances]( [As the president faces down a global pandemic, an economic crisis, and two damning tell-alls, ex-adviser Sam Nunberg weighs his chances in 2020.]( [Listen]( From the Archive: David Margolick [Strange Fruit]( [One night in 1939 at Café Society, in Greenwich Village, New York’s first proudly integrated nightclub outside Harlem, a budding legend named Billie Holiday first sang a new song: “Strange Fruit.” The ballad—a lyrical, horrifying description of a lynching—was a musical cry against racism, and with it Holiday continued to shock, anger, and move audiences until her death in 1959. Sixty years after Holiday’s revolutionary performance, David Margolick traces the origins of “Strange Fruit” and the way it changed the life of the 24-year-old who dared sing it.]( [Read More]( Katherine Eban [“This Shouldn’t Be Happening”: Tulsa Health Officials Despair as the Trump Rally Rolls Into Town]( [The science is clear: The COVID-19 curve is nowhere near flat enough to justify a massive indoor rally. But the president’s show must go on, and red state governors must go along.]( [Read More]( [ELSEWHERE] [The History of the “Riot” Report]( [From the New Yorker]( [Read More]( [The Problem With Right and Wrong]( [From Vice]( [Read More]( [The Way of John Lewis]( [From the Bitter Southerner]( [Read More]( [James {NAME} on Racism in America]( [From Esquire]( [Read More]( [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Instagram]( [LinkedIn]( This e-mail was sent to you by HIVE PS. 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.