National News
Image of Thomas Jefferson alongside Black descendant holds ‘a mirror’ to America. By Sharmar Walters and Maia Davis / NBC News
Racist, brutal past or Hispanic history? Latinos clash over Spanish colonial statues. By Gwen Aviles / NBC News
New doc “John Lewis: Good Trouble” gives nuance to a relentless freedom fighter. By Pricilla Ward / Salon
Crisis in the Navajo Nation: Voter suppression, racism and a deadly pandemic. By David Daley / Salon
How the Trump Campaign Is Drawing Obama Out of Retirement. By Glenn Thrush and Elaina Plott / NYT
Camden Didn’t Defund Its Police Department—It Just Handed It Off. By Hank Kalet / The Progressive
Reparations bill gains steam following death of George Floyd. By Mike Lillis / The Hill
Census shows white decline, nonwhite majority among youngest Americans. By The Associated Press / NBC News
For Biden VP, Black Democrats are torn between Harris and Warren. By Sahil Kapur / NBC News
Yes, the Freedmen’s Memorial uses racist imagery. But don’t tear it down. By David W. Blight / Wash Post
Princeton To Remove Woodrow Wilson’s Name From Public Policy School. By Jason Slotkin / NPR
Georgia governor signs hate crime law following Ahmaud Arbery shooting. By Grace Hauck / USA Today
Why the lopsided House vote in favor of D.C. statehood was so historic. By Karen Tumulty / Wash Post
What PTSD tells us about the history of slavery. By Tyler D. Parry / Wash Post
NASA’s D.C. Headquarters Renamed For Mary W. Jackson, Depicted In ‘Hidden Figures.’ By Curtis M. Wong / HuffPost
Tamir Rice’s mother fights racism in America and police brutality. By Nicquel Terry Ellis / USA Today
Trump’s ‘Kung flu’ slur, pervasive scapegoating recall a brutal decades-old hate crime. By Claire Wang / NBC News
Young Asians and Latinos push their parents to acknowledge racism amid protests. By Sydney Trent / Wash Post
COVID-19 on the Rise in 29 States; Immigrant and Communities of Color Carry Brunt of Devastation. By Democracy Now
Ben Crump has become the go-to attorney for racial justice: ‘I feel like I’m running out of time.’ By Karen Heller / Wash Post
How Recommendations Of An Obama Task Force Have, And Haven’t, Changed U.S. Policing. By Becky Sullivan / NPR
The State Department Was Designed to Keep African-Americans Out. By Christopher Richardson / NYT
The Black Female Battalion That Stood Up to a White Male Army. By Christina Brown Fisher / NYT
LeBron James’s Business Partner Now Wants to Get Out the Vote. By David Gelles / NYT
2 Lawyers Of Color Face 45-Year Sentences — For Vandalism. By Samantha Storey / HuffPost
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