• MTV Political writer Jane Coaston delivers an important and terribly timely lesson on the history of gun control and its connection to race in America.

• Meredith Graves and Jamil Smith discuss what white people and non-black people of color can do to be allies without being obnoxious.

• Ana Marie Cox and Marcus Ellsworth discuss their experiences on the ground at last week’s police brutality protests.

• Julianne Ross finds out what it takes to get arrested for a Facebook status.

• Marcus Ellsworth makes a poetic attempt to find happiness in spite of everything.