The Mornin' Experience 8_5

Today’s headlines spotlight America’s ongoing reckoning with race and authority. In New York, two officers had to wrestle a police dog off a Black man—bitten during a funeral procession while simply standing nearby. In Georgia, a Black veteran driving his infant daughter to sleep around his former military base was interrogated and blocked by a barefoot white man demanding to know what he was doing there. And in North Carolina, a Black truck driver delivering mulch was ambushed by white construction workers, who allegedly slammed a door on his dog, surrounded his rig with bulldozers, and made threats—an incident partially caught on video now going viral. Plus:Topic Tuesday – When’s the right time for Millennial parents to start putting their kids on to the good music? We’re talking Soulja Boy to Sade, Missy to Mos Def. It’s race, resistance, parenting—and why the aux cord might just be political.