National News
At 16, She’s a Pioneer in the Fight to Cure Sickle Cell Disease. By Gina Kolata / NYT
Latinos, Asian Americans still fear 2020 census over citizenship question, witnesses tell Congress. By Suzanne Gamboa / NBC News
Stabbings, Fires, Flooded Cells: Mississippi’s Prison System Is Falling Apart. By Samantha Michaels / Mother Jones
Hurl Bibles or Hot Coffee: How One Church Is Preparing for Attacks. By Audra D.S. Burch / NYT
For Black Americans, It’s Not a Housing Crisis. It’s a Chronic Condition. By Aaron Wiener / Mother Jones
Naming the Threat: The scourge of police violence targeting Black women. By Kimberle Williams Crenshaw / The New Republic
Denying a Professor Tenure, Harvard Sparks a Debate Over Ethnic Studies. By Kate Taylor / NYT
Illinois Lt. Governor is first in line to buy pot after her state legalizes it for recreational purposes. By Sky Palma / Raw Story
Police Stop Black Drivers At Higher Rate Than Whites In California. By Sarah Ruiz-Grossman / Huff Post
The Decade in Asian America. By Jenn Fang / NBC News
Fifty Years After the Police Murders of Black Panthers Fred Hampton and Mark Clark. By Norman Stockwell and Frances Madeson / The Progressive
N.Y. Times edits Bret Stephens “Jewish Genius” column to remove scholar who “promoted racist views.” By Igor Derysh / Salon
Jewish community grapples with how to stem growing anti-Semitic violence. By Ben Kesslen / NBC News
2019 Brought Stepped-Up Efforts To Counter White Supremacist Violence. By Hannah Allam / NPR
Gerrymandering is alive and well. The coming battle will be bigger than ever. By Jane C. Timm / NBC News
First there was ‘diversity.’ Then ‘inclusion.’ Now H.R. wants everyone to feel like they ‘belong.’ By Jena McGregor / Wash Post
In a Homecoming Video Meant to Unite Campus, Almost Everyone Was White. By Julie Bosman, Emily Shetler and Natalie Yahr / NYT
Census Bureau Finds Latinos, Asians Sensitive To Now-Blocked Citizenship Question. By Hansi Lo Wang / NPR
‘The War of Races’: How a hateful ideology echoes through American history. By Michael E. Miller / Wash Post
Slavery cost him his family. That’s when Henry ‘Box’ Brown mailed himself to freedom. By Sydney Trent / Wash Post
2019 marked 400 years of ‘forbidden black love’ in America. By Dianne M. Stewart / Wash Post
The influential people we said goodbye to in 2019. By Bernard McGhee / PBS News Hour
This week is the somber anniversary of the largest mass execution in the US. By Leah Asmelash / CNN
Native Americans, the census’ most undercounted racial group, fight for an accurate 2020 tally. By Ben Kesslen / NBC News
White Christian America ended in the 2010s. By Robert P. Jones / NBC News
America’s schools are more diverse than ever. But the teachers are still mostly white. By Laura Meckler and Kate Rabinowitz / Wash Post
