7 Essays To Read This Weekend: Baltimore, Bruce Jenner, And Black Exhaustion

This week, BuzzFeed News editor Adam Serwer asks how a city with black representation in power erupted in riots not seen since Martin Luther King Jr. was killed. Read that and others from Medium, the New York Times, and The Nation.

1. "The Biggest Mystery of Baltimore’s Riots" — BuzzFeed Ideas

2. "Black Exhaustion" — Medium

3. "Mormon, Childless, and Constantly Condescended To" — BuzzFeed Ideas

4. "No Labels, No Drama, Right?" — New York Times

5. "How I Made a Career Out of Showing People My Cervix" — BuzzFeed Life

6. "Toward a New 'Broken Windows' Theory" — The Nation

7. "From a Symbol of Athletic Power to a Symbol of Gender Transition" — BuzzFeed LGBT

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