National News
How Viral Videos of Racist Incidents Are Changing Society. Erica Solano and Alexander Robson / Time
How Has the Electoral College Survived for This Long? Resistance to eliminating it has long been connected to the idea of white supremacy. By Alexander Keyssar / NYT
Black Lives Matter in Small Towns, Too. By Amanda Solliday / The Progressive
Enslaved people’s health was ignored from the country’s beginning, laying the groundwork for today’s health disparities. By Eric Kyere / The Conversation
The American dream while Black: Locked in a vicious cycle. Homeownership is supposed to be the gateway to the American dream. By Nigel Chiwaya and Janell Ross / NBC News
Black-owned companies are shutting down twice as fast as other businesses. By Chauncey Alcorn / CNN
Distrust of the Minneapolis Police, and Also the Effort to Defund Them. By John Eligon / NYT
Returning From War, Returning to Racism. By Alexis Clark / NYT
Grace Lynne Haynes’s “Sojourner Truth, Founding Mother.” By Francoise Mouly / The New Yorker
How white supremacy infected Christianity and the Republican Party. By Jennifer Rubin / Wash Post
A Half-Century After Wallace, Trump Echoes the Politics of Division. By Peter Baker / NYT
The Right’s Increasingly Unhinged Fight Against Black Lives Matter. By Jake Bittle / New Republic
San Francisco Proposes To Shift $120 Million From Police To Tackle Racial Disparities. By Maureen Pao / NPR
The lies our textbooks told my generation of Virginians about slavery. By Bennett Minton / Wash Post
Asian Americans face dual challenges: Surging unemployment and racism. By Caitlin Yoshiko Kandil and Kimmy Yam / NBC News
The Coronavirus Pandemic Has Intensified Systemic Economic Racism Against Black Americans. By Steven Greenhouse / The New Yorker
Virus-Driven Push to Release Juvenile Detainees Leaves Black Youth Behind. By Erica L. Green / NYT
John Lewis remembered in his own words / NBC News
Politics at the point of a gun. Conservative armed groups move into politics as backlash builds against protests, stay-at-home orders. By Joshua Partlow / Wash Post
Urban planning as a tool of white supremacy – the other lesson from Minneapolis. By Julian Agyeman / The Conversation
Protesters Seeking Justice for Breonna Taylor Have to Convince a Mitch McConnell Protege. By Pema Levy / Mother Jones
Jaime Harrison is chasing Lindsey Graham like a cheetah running down an impala. By Jonathan Capehart / Wash Post
House votes to approve the creation of a National Latino Museum. By Patricia Guadalupe / NBC News
When it comes to congressional oversight of our military, the U.S. has a serious diversity problem. By Brian Greer / Wash Post
One Korean American’s Reckoning. By Alyssa Jeong Perry / NPR
For HBCUs, the coronavirus pandemic hits especially close to home. By Nolan D. McCaskill and Maya King / Politico
