National News
Black Ex-Franchisees File Racial Discrimination Lawsuit Against McDonald’s. By Ruth Umoh / Forbes
Tulsa Race Massacre survivors file lawsuit, demanding ‘repair’ for 1921 attack. By DeNeen L. Brown / Wash Post
People of color are disproportionately affected by covid-19. Yet they are underrepresented in vaccine trials. By Karen Bass / Wash Post
Military diversity: Army shows few Black officers in top leadership. By Tom Vanden Brook / USA Today
How Minneapolis re-segregated its schools and set the stage for a national crisis. By Erin Einhorn and Nigel Chiwaya / NBC News
Thousands Gather For March On Washington To Demand Police Reform And Racial Equality. By Brakkton Booker / NPR
The Thin Blue Line Between Violent, Pro-Trump Militias and Police. By Ryan Devereaux / The Intercept
US Law Enforcement’s Warrior Complex Is on Full Display in the Streets—and in Leaked Documents. By Chris Gelardi / The Nation
The Massacre That Emboldened White Supremacists. By William Briggs and Jon Krakauer / NYT
Presidents have a long history of condescension, indifference and outright racism towards Black Americans. By Stephen A. Jones and Eric Freedman / The Conversation
A Detailed Look at the Downside of California’s Ban on Affirmative Action. By Kevin Carey / NYT
Black men in D.C. are expected to die 17 years earlier than White men. Here’s why. By Lola Fadulu / Wash Post
Two Black-Led Banks Merge to Form a $1 Billion Lender. By Stacy Cowley / NYT
The NBA Wildcat Strike Is How a Revolution Starts. By Lester Spence / Mother Jones
St. Louis Couple Is Trump’s Pitch to the Scared Suburbs. By Emma Green / The Atlantic
LeBron James says Black community ‘terrified’ of police conduct. By Dave McMenamin / ESPN
A Look At The Racial Disparities In How Some Georgia Counties Are Rejecting Mail Ballots. By Tierney Sneed / TPM
How Federal Housing Programs Failed Black America. By Marcia Chartelain / The Nation
What the 19th Amendment Meant for Black Women. By Martha S. Jones / Politico
‘Emmett Till Is Anne Frank To Black America.’ By Brianne Garrett / Forbes
There’s a movement to get more schools to teach Black history and it’s being led by teens. By Scottie Andrew / CNN
At Arlington House, a push to remove Robert E. Lee’s name from the home he once occupied. By Sydney Trent / Wash Post
‘Make Farmers Black Again’: Fighting Discrimination To Own Farmland. By Julian Forstadt / NPR
Black Workers Are More Likely to Be Unemployed but Less Likely to Get Unemployment Benefits. By Ava Kofman and Hannah Fresques / Propublica
Anatomy of a Photograph: Authoritarianism in America. By Errol Morris / The Atlantic
At The DNC, Democrats Embraced The Civil Rights Movement To Explain Their Place In The Present. By Paul Blumenthal / HuffPost
