National News
States are banning discrimination against black hairstyles. For some lawmakers, it’s personal. By Ovetta Wiggins / Wash Post
Coronovirus Death Risk Could be Higher For Patients With High Blood Pressure, Chinese COVID – 19 Doctor Claims. By Kashmira Gander / Newsweek
Coronavirus fears show how ‘model minority’ Asian Americans become the ‘yellow peril.’ By Matthew Lee / NBC News
The history of slavery remains with us today. By Ariela Gross and Alejandro de la Fuente / Wash Post
The First African American Woman To Obtain A Graduate Degree In Physics Was Involved In A Top Secret US Mission. By Anna Powers / Forbes
Russia Trying to Stoke U.S. Racial Tensions Before Election, Officials Say. By Julian E. Barnes and Adam Goldman / NYT
How Working-Class Life Is Killing Americans, in Charts. By David leonhardt and Stuart A. Thompson / NYT
The Candidate Fighting To Save Coal Country From Mitch McConnell. By Travis Waldron / HuffPost
The new Census algorithm is wiping out cities’ populations and miscounting minorities, experts warn. By Igor Derysh / Salon
Trump’s DOJ Has Not Filed A Single New Voting Rights Act Case. By Tierney Sneed / Talkinpointsmemo
Slavery: new digital tools show how important slave trade was to Liverpool’s development. By Nicholas Radburn and David Eltis / The Conversation
Virginia Confederate monuments: ‘We’re going to hold hands on this journey as brothers and sisters.’ By Laura Vozzella / Wash Post
Birmingham’s ‘Fifth Girl.’ By Sydney Trent / Wash Post
Latinos boosted Sanders on Super Tuesday. A lesson for the Biden campaign? By Suzanne Gamboa / NBC News
“Voter suppression, plain and simple”: Texas closed hundreds of polling sites in black, Latino areas. By Igor Derysh / Salon
Charlottesville will celebrate the end of slavery as an official holiday instead of Thomas Jefferson’s birthday. By Alaa Elassar / CNN
The Long Struggle Against Educational Injustice. By AAIHS Editors
Prep for Prep and the Fault Lines in New York’s Schools. By Vinson Cunningham / The New Yorker
Trump nominates first African American Air Force chief. By Rebecca Kheel / The Hill
Excuse you, Iowa. Black voters flex for Biden in Democratic primary. By Brandon Tensley / CNN
Jaime Harrison: Meet the Democrat riding the Lindsey Graham backlash. By Katie Lobosco / CNN
How one man fought South Carolina Democrats to end whites-only primaries – and why that matters now. By Bobby J. Donaldson / The Conversation
The A&T Four Gave Me A Richer Understanding Of My Black History. By East L. Dockery / The Undefeated
Stacey Abrams Is Building a New Kind of Political Machine in the Deep South. By Tessa Stuart / Rollling Stone
In Selma, 55 years after Bloody Sunday, concern rises over voting rights. By Ankita Rao and Sam levine / The Guardian
Ex-Baltimore mayor sentenced to 3 years in prison for children’s book scam. By David K. Li / NBC News
