My picks for #sundayread for August 21, 2016:

• Y’all Connect: Help Baton Rouge. Here’s how.
• The Adolescent Brain – What All Teens Need to Know, by @hey_sigmund (RT @DrMaidenberg)
• Lessons from 26 Years of Web Design by Victor Sorescu @Pixelated_Vic (RT @frantastic__)
• Speaking gigs: Southern Public Relations Federation annual conference, September 2016
• Oral history of “Taxi Driver” for 40th anniversary, compiled by Gregg Kilday @gkilday
• Escobar’s Hippos Keep Having Sex — No One Knows How to Stop Them, by @SarahNEmerson
• Books: Excerpt from Carla Jean Whitley’s “Birmingham Beer: A Heady History of Brewing”
• The Tragic History of RC Cola, by @JeffWellsWH
• Flashback: How I’m listening to improve my communication: An update
• K-pop goes India! Riding the Korean musical wave, by @captbackspace (via @damrita)
• Gawker and the rage of the creative underclass, by @VanessaGrigor iadis
• USDA Was Black Farmers’ Worst Enemy. How It Became Ally, by @Ms_SAH (via @cadwego @bittman)
• Mother for Hire, by @RachelAviv
• In the comments, the drama of “Law and Order” unfolds …

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: 500,000 seconds of summer

The latest #sundayread tweets:

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• More #sundayread recommendations from me