What I read today Sept 11

• Here’s What the Watermelon Was Up to Before It Tasted Good, Atlas Obscura

• Kamala Harris Stumps Brett Kavanaugh with Abortion Question, Broadly

• It Came From the '70s: The Story of Your Grandma's Weird Couch, Collectors Weekly

• James Baldwin's Sole Children's Book Comes Back into Print, Publishers Weekly

• Performing Blackness Won't Fill Our Asian-American Culture Deficit [OP-ED], Colorlines

• Issa Rae: ‘There Was No Blueprint for My Career’, Glamour

• Prison labor is modern slavery. I've been sent to solitary for speaking out, The Guardian

• How the Smithsonian Helped Sleuth Out the True Identity of a Pair of Dorothy’s Ruby Slippers, SmithsonianMag

• Xiaohe: A 4000-Year-Old Desert Cemetery, Amusing Planet