National News
The United States vs. Billie Holiday. By Lawwrence Wu / NPR
Lift Every Voice and Sing: The history, the lyrics and the impact. By Faith Karimi and AJ Willingham / CNN
Memories of Homecoming at Historically Black Colleges and Universities. By Charanna Alexander / NYT
Featured – The German model for America. By Mattie Kahn / Vox
Kamala Harris’s Vice-Presidency Keeps Getting Bigger. By Gabriel Debnedetti / NY Mag
Michelle Obama releases closing campaign message: Vote for Biden ‘like your lives depend on it. By Sarah Mucha and Jeff Zeleny / CNN
Warnock moves from pulpit to top rungs in crowded Senate race. By Ernie Suggs / AJC
White supremacists remain deadliest US terror threat, Homeland Security report says. By Geneva Sands / CNN
In Florida, the Gutting of a Landmark Law Leaves Few Felons Likely to Vote. By Lawrence Mower and Langston Taylor / Propublica
Mellon Foundation to Spend $250 Million to Reimagine Monuments. By Jennifer Schuessler / NYT
Armed with $1 million, John King launches new group to address systemic racism in Maryland. By Erin Cox / Wash Post
D.C. slaveholders once won reparations. Now, the city eyes payment for descendants of enslaved people. By Michael Brice-Saddler and Fenit Nirappil / Wash Post
The Nobility of Mobility: A Road Trip Through Racism. By Ed Rampell / The Progressive
19 Black families buy 97 acres of Georgia land to create ‘Freedom.’ By N’dea Yancey- Bragg / USA Today
Why a Hospital Might Shun a Black Patient. By Amol S. Navathe and Harald Schmidt / NYT
Hotter Days Widen Racial Gap in U.S. Schools, Data Shows. By Christopher Flavelle / NYT
The origins of policing in America. Wash Post Video
Remembering The Augusta Civil Rights Riot, 50 Years Later. By Sea Stachura / NPR
Trump’s encouragement of GOP poll watchers echoes an old tactic of voter intimidation. Mark Krasovic / The Conversation
VA will be investigated after ‘staggering accounts of racism,’ Sen. Warren says. By Alex Horton / Wash Post
Breonna Taylor grand jury recordings paint chaotic, confusing scene. By Minyvonne Burke, Laura Strickler, Janelle Griffith and Lisa Riordan Seville. NBC News
Graham, Harrison spar over SCOTUS and Covid-19 in fiery Senate debate. By James Arkin / Politico
Can Mike Espy Make History, Again? By Charles M. Blow / NYT
California was a free state. But there was still slavery. Now reparations are on the table. By Gillian Brockell / Wash Post
Alabama’s governor apologizes to survivor of 1963 Klan bombing of Birmingham church. By Sydney Trent / Wash Post
Black Gun Ownership Surges Amid 2020 Racial Tensions. By Madison J. Gray / BET News
