National News
Protestors Could Lose Voting Rights Under New Tennessee Law. By Ishena Robinson / The Root
Amid Debates About Memorials, Advocates Push To Remember Atlanta’s Forced Laborers. By Molly Samuel / NPR
The Black Freedom Struggle of the North. By Josua Clark Davis / AAIHS
Louisiana Supreme Court upholds Black man’s life sentence for stealing hedge clippers. By Kay Jones and Leah Asmelash / CNN
Barack Obama Delivers a Jeremiad. By David W. Blight / NYT
The Contours of Atlanta’s Policing Debate. Why most of the city’s Black council members shot down a proposal to defund the police. By George Chidi / The Intercept
Residential segregation plays a role in coronavirus disparities, study finds. By Venessa Williams / Wash Post
What MLK and Malcolm X would do today. By Sean Illing / Vox
Postal Service cuts imperil ladder to middle class for many Black Americans. By Eleanor Mueller and Kelllie Mejdrich / Politico
Black babies more likely to live when treated by Black doctors: Study finds. By N’dea Yancey-Bragg / USA Today
Philadelphia’s deadly MOVE bombing: Why we can’t settle for apologies now. By Mike Africa Jr. / Salon
The Untold Story of the Black Marines Charged With Mutiny at Sea. By John Ismay / NYT
Clemson historians searched for unmarked graves. They found dozens for enslaved people owned by a U.S. vice president. By Jaclyn Peiser / Wash Post
New law requires students to complete ethnic studies to graduate from California State University. By Phil Helsel / NBC News
Michelle Obama’s Unmatched Call to Action at the Democratic National Convention. By Doreen St. Felix / The New Yorker
Shirley Chisholm’s historic presidential run helped lead to this moment. By Li Zhou / Vox
Trump, Biden and race: A history. Two men shaped by a different era are vying to lead America through a reckoning. By JM Rieger / Wash Post
Trump Had No Response When Asked If He Regrets All His Lies. By Josephine Harvey / Huff Post
Obama Assails Trump For Attacks On Mail-In Voting. By Marina Fang / HuffPost
Reports Reveal Federal Agency’s Surveillance of BLM Protests. By Zack Linly / The Root
Sen. Mitch McConnell photo with Confederate flag lives on. By Morgan Watkins / USA Today
Black women are promoted at far lower rates than White men, report finds. By Chabeli Carrazana / 19th News
The World of Slavery, Kidnapping, and the Slave Trade. By Derek Litvak / AAIHS
Julian Bond’s Life in Protest and Politics. By Robert Greene II / The Nation
Every ‘Squad’ Member Won Her Primary. By Daniel Marans / HuffPost
New Research Highlights Gaps In How Black And White Voters Approach Vote By Mail. By Tierney Sneed / TPM
