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“How did these human beings last that long before they reached their human limit?”

Ferguson solidarity protests continued across the country over the holiday weekend. Here’s what we’re catching up on…

The great Jay Smooth on pushing people to their human limits.

Apparently, the prosecution initially told the grand jury to judge Wilson according to a fake, unconstitutional state law on the police use of force.

A Melissa Harris-Perry roundtable, featuring our own Chloe, on the non-indictment and #blacklivesmatter.

Kiese Laymon on how his Vassar College ID makes everything ok.

The St. Louis Rams showed their support for Ferguson protesters by holding their hands up before Sunday’s game. And the police don’t approve.

Protestors in the Bay Area shut down a BART subway station.

Meanwhile, a black man was stopped by a cop for “making people nervous” by walking with his hands in his pockets on snowy day in Michigan.

“I am consistently told that right now is “too distracting”, “too divisive”, and just “not the right time” to talk about the lives of black women, femmes and girls. But when IS the right time?”

“Wake up!”

Header image credit: @MrDavidJohns

St. Paul, MN

Maya Dusenbery is executive director in charge of editorial at Feministing. She is the author of the forthcoming book Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick (HarperOne, March 2018). She has been a fellow at Mother Jones magazine and a columnist at Pacific Standard magazine. Her work has appeared in publications like Cosmopolitan.com, TheAtlantic.com, Bitch Magazine, as well as the anthology The Feminist Utopia Project. Before become a full-time journalist, she worked at the National Institute for Reproductive Health. A Minnesota native, she received her B.A. from Carleton College in 2008. After living in Brooklyn, Oakland, and Atlanta, she is currently based in the Twin Cities.

Maya Dusenbery is an executive director of Feministing and author of the forthcoming book Doing Harm on sexism in medicine.

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