National News
Two Black-Led Banks Merge to Form a $1 Billion Lender. By Stacy Cowley / NYT
The NBA Wildcat Strike Is How a Revolution Starts. By Lester Spence / Mother Jones
St. Louis Couple Is Trump’s Pitch to the Scared Suburbs. By Emma Green / The Atlantic
LeBron James says Black community ‘terrified’ of police conduct. By Dave McMenamin / ESPN
A Look At The Racial Disparities In How Some Georgia Counties Are Rejecting Mail Ballots. By Tierney Sneed / TPM
How Federal Housing Programs Failed Black America. By Marcia Chartelain / The Nation
What the 19th Amendment Meant for Black Women. By Martha S. Jones / Politico
‘Emmett Till Is Anne Frank To Black America.’ By Brianne Garrett / Forbes
There’s a movement to get more schools to teach Black history and it’s being led by teens. By Scottie Andrew / CNN
At Arlington House, a push to remove Robert E. Lee’s name from the home he once occupied. By Sydney Trent / Wash Post
‘Make Farmers Black Again’: Fighting Discrimination To Own Farmland. By Julian Forstadt / NPR
Black Workers Are More Likely to Be Unemployed but Less Likely to Get Unemployment Benefits. By Ava Kofman and Hannah Fresques / Propublica
Anatomy of a Photograph: Authoritarianism in America. By Errol Morris / The Atlantic
At The DNC, Democrats Embraced The Civil Rights Movement To Explain Their Place In The Present. By Paul Blumenthal / HuffPost
What is implicit bias? The invisible racism that hurts Black women at the doctor’s office. By Vidya Rao / Today
Civil rights protest, political demonstrations and fireworks: D.C. to host thousands amid coronavirus pandemic. By Marissa J. Lang / Wash Post
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
