National News
Surgeon general gets pushed to sidelines, sparking questions. By Dan Diamond / Politico
How do you know voting by mail works? The U.S. military’s done it since the Civil War. By Alex Seitz-Wald / NBC News
Racism After Redlining. By Nathan Connolly / AAIHS
Discover the life and legacy of Lloyd Garrison Wheeler, the first black lawyer in Illinois. By Mitzi Miller / NYT
How ‘Mrs. America’ gives Shirley Chisholm her due — and exposes the limits of 1970s feminism. By Sonia Rao / Wash Post
How the rich reacted to the bubonic plague has eerie similarities to today’s pandemic. By Kathryn McKinley / The Conversation
Black-White Divide Grows Starker As More Coronavirus Data Emerges. By Kat Stafford, Meghan Hoyer and Aaron Morrison / HuffPost
As more black Americans die from coronavirus, community leaders are taking action. By Janell Ross / NBC News
Black scientists hope to begin testing antiviral drug for coronavirus in two weeks. By Curtis Bunn / NBC News
The Coronavirus Is Changing How Americans View One Another. By Alexander W. Cappelen, Ranveig Falch, Erik O. Sorensen, Bertil Tungodden and Gus Wezerek / NYT
COVID-19 Protesters Just Like Rosa Parks, Says White House Adviser Stephen Moore. By Mary Papenfuss / HuffPost
Tucker Carlson: “Radical expansion” of voting by mail championed by Obama would “destroy” democracy. By Matthew Rozsa / Salon
Covid-19 took Flint’s first black superintendent, whose work empowered minority students. By Michael Brice-Saddler / Wash Post
Straggling in a Good Economy, and Now Struggling in a Crisis. By Patricia Cohen / NYT
American capitalism is failing Trump’s base as white working-class ‘deaths of despair’ rise. By Anne Case and Angus Deaton / NBC News
Native Americans were already decimated by a virus. They’re scared it could happen again. By John Blake / CNN
Erased from utopia: the hidden history of LA’s black and brown resistance. By Mike Davis and Jon Wiener / The Guardian
‘Remarkable’ woman discovered as last known survivor of transatlantic slave trade. By Jack Guy / CNN
African American Scientist Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett leads the way on COVID-19 vaccine trials. By Janell Ross / NBC News
Covid-19 is ravaging black communities. A Milwaukee neighborhood is figuring out how to fight back. By Robert Samuels / Wash Post
The CDC must end its silence on the racial impact of covid-19. By Spencer Overton / Wash Post
Mississippi governor takes break from pandemic to declare “Confederate Heritage Month.” By Igor Derysh / Salon
Asian Americans use social media to drown out bigotry. By Associated Press / NBC News
White Supremacy’s Gateway to the American Mind. By Ava Kaufman, Moira Weigel and Francis Tseng / The Atlantic
Earl G. Graves Sr., founder of Black Enterprise, dies. By Leah Asmelash / CNN
LeBron’s New Documentary Tells The Story Of His I Promise School In Akron. By Jessie Washington / The Undefeated
