National News
Why the lopsided House vote in favor of D.C. statehood was so historic. By Karen Tumulty / Wash Post
What PTSD tells us about the history of slavery. By Tyler D. Parry / Wash Post
NASA’s D.C. Headquarters Renamed For Mary W. Jackson, Depicted In ‘Hidden Figures.’ By Curtis M. Wong / HuffPost
Tamir Rice’s mother fights racism in America and police brutality. By Nicquel Terry Ellis / USA Today
Trump’s ‘Kung flu’ slur, pervasive scapegoating recall a brutal decades-old hate crime. By Claire Wang / NBC News
Young Asians and Latinos push their parents to acknowledge racism amid protests. By Sydney Trent / Wash Post
COVID-19 on the Rise in 29 States; Immigrant and Communities of Color Carry Brunt of Devastation. By Democracy Now
Ben Crump has become the go-to attorney for racial justice: ‘I feel like I’m running out of time.’ By Karen Heller / Wash Post
How Recommendations Of An Obama Task Force Have, And Haven’t, Changed U.S. Policing. By Becky Sullivan / NPR
The State Department Was Designed to Keep African-Americans Out. By Christopher Richardson / NYT
The Black Female Battalion That Stood Up to a White Male Army. By Christina Brown Fisher / NYT
LeBron James’s Business Partner Now Wants to Get Out the Vote. By David Gelles / NYT
2 Lawyers Of Color Face 45-Year Sentences — For Vandalism. By Samantha Storey / HuffPost
People! Don’t be misled, bamboozled, hoodwinked, or led astray. Wear a mask!
The Hidden History Of Juneteenth. By Gregory P. Downs / TPM
Donald Trump’s Empty Campaign Rally in Tulsa. By Eric Loch / The New Yorker
The South is red. It’s also Black. By Zachary B. Wolf / CNN
Harris Rises To Top of Biden’s VP List After Klobuchar’s Strategic Exit. By Adrian Carrasquillo / Newsweek
Top State Department official resigns in protest of Trump’s response to racial tensions in the country. By Seung Min Kim / Wash Post
Black Americans, crucial workers in crises, emerge worse off – not better. By Calvin Schermerhorn / The Conversation
Racial violence and a pandemic: How the Red Summer of 1919 relates to 2020. By Erik Ortiz / NBC News
Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben deserve retirement. They’re racist myths of happy Black servitude. By Michael Twitty / NBC News
As colleges grapple with racist legacies, a monument at Ole Miss will finally go. By Susan Svrluga / Wash Post
One of America’s worst acts of racial violence was in Tulsa. Now, it’s the site of Trump’s first rally in months. By Emily Stewart / Vox
Over 2,000 Black People Were Lynched From 1865 to 1877, Study Finds. By Campbell Robertson / NYT
Police Killings Prompt Reassessment of Laws Allowing Deadly Force. By Rick Rojas and Richard Fausset / NYT
