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In today’s fast-paced news environment, it can be hard to keep up. For your weekend reading, we’ve started\u00a0in-case-you-missed-it compilations of some of the week’s top\u00a0USA TODAY Opinion\u00a0pieces.\u00a0As always, thanks for reading, and\u00a0for your feedback.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0USA TODAY Opinion editors<\/em><\/p>\n

1.\u00a0Tennis authorities violated law and human decency by forcing Osaka out of the French Open<\/h2>\n

By\u00a0Scott Douglas Gerber<\/strong><\/p>\n

“It is profoundly disturbing that Naomi Osaka felt compelled to\u00a0withdraw from the French Open, one of tennis\u2019\u00a0four Grand Slam\u00a0tournaments. It is also illegal to make her feel like she needed to withdraw. The 23-year-old Osaka is the No. 2 female tennis player in the world at the moment. She\u00a0won the previous two Grand Slams, and she has won a total of\u00a0four in her young tennis career.”<\/p>\n

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Naomi Osaka in the quarterfinals of the Miami Open tennis tournament in Miami Gardens, Florida, on March 31, 2021. (Photo: Lynne Sladky, AP)<\/span><\/p>\n

2.\u00a0Connie Schultz reflects on Pride Month and the ‘nonsense’ that confronts the LGBTQ community<\/h2>\n

By Connie Schultz<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Pride Month\u00a0always stirs up a lot of memories for me. They float up like snapshots, a collection of captured moments in time: My daughter\u2019s gay high school guidance counselor insisting that she is worthy of her dreams. Holding my breath as people recite long lists of names of friends and loved ones who have died of AIDS. Pastor Kate officiating at our wedding, even as she is legally forbidden from marrying Jackie, her longtime partner in the front pew.”<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0 Michael Flynn’s coup talk makes him the poster boy for an addiction to rage<\/h2>\n

By\u00a0Jonathan Turley<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Gen. Michael Flynn appears to be man adrift. Flynn was pummeled by prosecutors to the point of bankruptcy and subjected to serious errors in\u00a0prosecutorial\u00a0and\u00a0judicial\u00a0misconduct for years. Despite\u00a0my criticism of his prosecution, however, some of us noticed a rise of\u00a0unhinged and undemocratic rhetoric\u00a0from the former national security adviser.”<\/p>\n

4.\u00a0I’m a lifelong competitive athlete and a mom: Transgender athletes aren’t a threat to women’s sports<\/h2>\n

By\u00a0Jennifer Grosshandler<\/strong><\/p>\n

“I can still feel the rough spots of asphalt underneath me, balanced on one knee, fingertips on the ground.\u00a0 I remained as still as possible, razor focused, ready to sprint.\u00a0 I was at the net, my gaze set on that white band at the top, not daring to look to my left as one of the world\u2019s most celebrated tennis players, Chris Evert, served an ace. It was the mid 1970s. I was eight years old and had been playing tennis half my life.”<\/p>\n

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Tulsa cover-up (Photo: Dave Granlund)<\/span><\/p>\n

5.\u00a0Find your own ways to serve to honor the fallen on Memorial Day: Retired Navy SEAL commander<\/h2>\n

By\u00a0Mike Hayes<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Today, on Memorial Day, when people say, \u201cthank you for your service,\u201d it\u2019s a beautiful way to tip their cap to the\u00a01.2 million people\u00a0actively serving in the armed forces, or our 20 million veterans. But it\u2019s also insufficient. Memorial Day shouldn\u2019t just be a day to remember. It should be a day to change our understanding of service. It should be a day to realize that we are no different from the rest of you. We possess no special gift that makes us uniquely able to give back. We should not just be thanked for our service. We should be joined.”<\/p>\n

6.\u00a0Tulsa’s Greenwood neighborhood wasn’t America’s only Black Wall Street<\/h2>\n

By\u00a0Fay Horwitt, Lanessa Owens-Chaplin and Trevor Smith<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Pop culture has\u00a0made\u00a0Tulsa, Oklahoma, and the violence that destroyed its\u00a0Greenwood community\u00a0the center of conversation in ways that it never has been before. The\u00a0HBO series ‘Watchmen’\u00a0kicked off with a vivid re-enactment of the massacre. The comic book series ‘Bitter Root’\u00a0features the massacre\u00a0as its heroic characters\u00a0fight racism.\u00a0But Greenwood wasn’t the only Black Wall Street in America, and mass\u00a0violence wasn’t the only means of wiping them out. Urban renewal and\u00a0redlining tore apart\u00a0many Black neighborhoods, along with their promises of progress and economic freedom.”<\/p>\n

7.\u00a0On COVID-19 vaccine incentives, Mary Poppins was right about that spoonful of sugar<\/h2>\n

By\u00a0The Editorial Board<\/strong><\/p>\n

“There’s\u00a0good news about the\u00a0COVID-19 vaccines\u00a0almost daily.\u00a0New research shows immunity\u00a0from the shot could last years, perhaps a lifetime.\u00a0And all major vaccines \u2013 Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson versions in the United States\u00a0\u2013 appear\u00a0effective against most\u00a0feared, emerging variants, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.”<\/p>\n

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Normal (Photo: Dave Granlund)<\/span><\/p>\n

Counteract the anti-vaccine, anti-science aggression<\/h2>\n

By\u00a0Dr. Peter Hotez<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Our best hope of slowing or even halting COVID-19 virus transmission is through vaccination.\u00a0Based on our earlier studies, we will need about three-quarters of the U.S. population vaccinated to achieve this goal.\u00a0But with more transmissible variants, we may need to vaccinate just about all American adults and adolescents.\u00a0In regards to current\u00a0vaccination rates, we are making good progress on the East and West Coasts, but in the Southern United States\u00a0and in Idaho and Wyoming, vaccine coverage remains low.”<\/p>\n

8.\u00a0My dad criticized the Vietnam War while he was a POW. Here’s what he’d tell troops today.<\/h2>\n

By\u00a0Tom Wilber<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Six years ago, on Memorial Day, I helped my dad assemble the many pieces of his service dress white uniform. As retired military, the local organizer had asked us both to ride on a float in our hometown parade. Why us? We represented two successive generations of naval careers.\u00a0Before leaving for the parade, Dad and I stood side by side for photos with the things that we carried. I held the remaining piece of his F-4J aircraft that I had collected two weeks earlier, in a village in Nghe\u00a0An Province in north central Vietnam, where Dad\u2019s burning fighter plane had crashed in 1968. The engine piece had spent decades re-purposed as a pot to hold flowers for Tet, the lunar new year family holiday in Vietnam.”<\/p>\n

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Gun Violence (Photo: Dave Granlund)<\/span><\/p>\n

9.\u00a0Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay creates family initiative to raise awareness of mental health disorders<\/h2>\n

\u00a0By\u00a0Suzette Hackney<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Because there shouldn’t be any stigma\u00a0attached to mental illness. It’s a message that Americans must embrace beyond\u00a0Mental Health Awareness Month. It’s so important, particularly during pandemic recovery,\u00a0that Jim Irsay, billionaire owner of the Indianapolis Colts, created a\u00a0Kicking the Stigma\u00a0family initiative and raised more than $4.5 million this month to help generate\u00a0awareness about mental health disorders and\u00a0expand treatment options and resources. Irsay said the initiative was the brainchild of his\u00a0three daughters, Carlie, Casey and Kalen. Conversations around mental health and wellness and\u00a0equitable access to treatment is the first step in helping people realize they are not alone in the struggle.”<\/p>\n

10.\u00a0Is this Georgia town a model for reparations?<\/h2>\n

By\u00a0Eileen Rivers<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Most people probably haven’t heard of Linnentown\u00a0\u2013 a small community\u00a0in Athens, Georgia, whose\u00a022 acres\u00a0of shotgun houses and tree-lined streets\u00a0were bulldozed\u00a0in the 1960s, replaced by dorms for students at the University of Georgia. Linnentown, like so many other Black communities of that decade, was destroyed by\u00a0urban renewal. The city sold it for the equivalent of $1.8 million. But this year,\u00a0Athens-Clarke County\u00a0became one of the latest in\u00a0a handful of municipalities\u00a0to recognize the suffering of\u00a0residents\u00a0like\u00a0Hattie Thomas Whitehead, who grew up with six\u00a0siblings in Linnentown. Her parents\u00a0lost\u00a0the only home they would ever own, she explained in\u00a0an interview with\u00a0Grant Blankenship of Georgia\u00a0Public Broadcasting.”<\/p>\n

11.\u00a0January 6 Commission defeat previews dangerous failures to come on voting and elections<\/h2>\n

By\u00a0Jill Lawrence<\/strong><\/p>\n

“The successful Senate filibuster blocking an\u00a0independent, bipartisan commission\u00a0to investigate the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol should not be viewed as just another round of dysfunction. Barring shocking displays of procedural courage by Democrats or political courage by Republicans, it is a preview of massive failures to come in the project of trying to preserve American democracy. ‘I\u2019m deeply disappointed,’\u00a0Rep. Lee Hamilton, a Democrat who was vice chair of the 9\/11 Commission, told me. He called the Jan. 6 riot ‘a very dark day in the history of our country. We came very close to losing our republic and our form of government. Obviously Congress should investigate.'”<\/p>\n

You can read diverse opinions from our Board of Contributors and other writers on the Opinion front page, on Twitter @usatodayopinion and in our daily Opinion newsletter. To respond to a column, submit a comment to letters@usatoday.com.<\/i><\/p>\n

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