What I read today May 24

• Inside the Champagne Vaults of the Brooklyn Bridge on the 135th Anniversary [Photos], Untapped Cities
• BLACK MATERNAL MORTALITY IN THE U.S., Mother Mag
• The Legendary Met Opera's History Is More Compelling Than Fiction, architectural digest
• Portugal’s radical drugs policy is working. Why hasn’t the world copied it?, The Guardian
• B-52 Bomber Radicalism, Jacobin
• Looking Back on William Hawkins, the Outsider Artist Who Became Wildly Popular in His 80s, hyperallergic
• The Aesthetics of Gentrification, and New York’s Top-Down Approach to Change, hyperallergic