National News
Affirmative action: Challenge to Harvard’s admissions practices hits federal appeals court. By Joan Biskupic / CNN
Louisville, Ky., agrees to ‘substantial’ settlement in Breonna Taylor shooting. By Andrew Wolfson, Darcy Costello and Tessa Duvall / USA Today
Andrew Gillum’s complicated, reluctant coming out story. By Christina Cauterucci / Slate
NPR Poll Finds Pandemic Financially Imperils Nearly Half of American Households. By Yuki Noguchi / NPR
Faces of Power: 80% Are White, Even as U.S. Becomes More Diverse. By Denise Lu, Jon Huang, Ashwin Seshagiri, Haeyoun Park and Troy Griggs / NYT
How Kamala Harris’s Immigrant Parents Found a Home, and Each Other, in a Black Study Group. By Ellen Barry / NYT
We Need to Recruit More Black Americans in Vaccine Trials. By Wayne A. I. Frederick, Valerie Montgomery Rice, David M. Carlisle and James E. K. Hildreth / NYT
A Pattern of Resistance: The Tuskegee Airmen on Trial, Part 1. By Michael Hankins / Smithsonian
Revisiting Lerone Bennett Jr.’s ‘Forced Into Glory.’ By E. James West / AAIHS
The history of Black voter suppression — and the fight for the right to vote. By LaTosha Brown / NBC News Video
Black women are dying in childbirth. Race plays into maternal health care. By Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy / Rockland/ Westchester News
Black scuba divers document slave shipwrecks forgotten for generations. By Allie Yang / ABC News
Black, Native American and Fighting for Recognition in Indian Country. By Jack Healy / NYT
Latino unemployment rate remains high at 10.5 percent despite slight job gains. By Nicole Acevedo / NBC News
Black Caucus faces upheaval as progressive pressure rises. By Sarah Ferris and Heather Caygle / Politico
Our Long, Forgotten History of Election-Related Violence. By Jelani Cobb / The New Yorker
Fascism Scholar Says U.S. Is ‘Losing Its Democratic Status.’ By Christianna Silva and james Doubek / NPR
93% of Black Lives Matter Protests Have Been Peaceful: Report. By Sanya Mansoor / Time
White Supremacists Are Top Terror Threat In DHS Draft Assessments: Report. By Mary Papenfuss / HuffPost
Police unions tell us how they really feel about “bad apples” and brutality by endorsing Trump. By Ben Mathis-Lilley / Slate
Charges dropped against man who was prosecuted six times for murder. By Robert Barnes / Wash Post
Unions threaten work stoppages amid calls for racial justice. Aaron Morrison, Associated Press / PBS
White House Orders End Of ‘Un-American’ Racial Sensitivity Training At Federal Agencies. By Mary Papenfuss / HuffPost
Who has the most success preparing Black students for careers in science? Historically Black Colleges and Universities. By Andrea Widener / C&EN
Black American anxiety at all-time high, experts say. By Ryan Shepard / ABC News
American Christianity’s White-Supremacy Problem. By Michael Luo / The New Yorker
