National News
White Supremacy’s Gateway to the American Mind. By Ava Kaufman, Moira Weigel and Francis Tseng / The Atlantic
Earl G. Graves Sr., founder of Black Enterprise, dies. By Leah Asmelash / CNN
LeBron’s New Documentary Tells The Story Of His I Promise School In Akron. By Jessie Washington / The Undefeated
Three Important Interviews on Pandemic Racism. By Jeremy Scahill / The Intercept Podcast
Detroit, still clawing back from financial crisis, reels as coronavirus claims lives. By Erin Einhorn / NBC News
The Myth Of Black Immunity: Racialized Disease During The COVID-19 Pandemic. By Chelsey Carter And Ezelle Sanford III / AAIHS
Early Data Shows African Americans Have Contracted and Died of Coronavirus at an Alarming Rate. By Akilah Johnson and Tahia Buford / Propublica
Health issues for blacks, Latinos and Native Americans may cause coronavirus to ravage communities. By Deborah Barfield Berry / USA Today
Democratic Lawmakers Call for Racial Data in Virus Testing. By Aaron Morrison / US News
Thousands of people push back as Trump continues his blatant disrespect of black women journalists. By Denise Oliver Velez / Daily Kos
Republicans are still playing games with D.C. at the height of a deadly pandemic. By Editorial Board / Wash Post
A Preventable Cancer Is on the Rise in Alabama. By Eyal Press / The Nation
Missouri man planned to bomb hospital during pandemic to get attention for white supremacist views. By Pete Williams / NBC News
In 1918 and 2020, race colors America’s response to epidemics. By Soraya Nadia McDonald / The Undefeated
Coronavirus cripples voter registration efforts. Millions could be denied. By Alex Seitz-Wald / NBC News
For vulnerable black communities, the pandemic is a “crisis on top of a crisis.” By Khushbu Shah / Vox
‘A Dangerous Gamble’: Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey Refuses to Order ‘Shelter-in-Place’ for Residents, Leaving Black Alabamans Especially at Risk. By Anne Branigin / The Root
Asian Americans report over 650 racist acts over last week, new data says. By Caitlin Yoshiko Kandil / NBC News
The Supreme Court handed down a unanimous decision that bodes ill for the future of civil rights. By Ian Millhiser / Vox
This Mayor Is Giving People $500 A Month, No Strings Attached. Here’s His Advice For Trump. By Laura Paddison / HuffPost
Rev. Joseph E. Lowery a Great American Preacher Died on Friday. His sermon,”Who’s Going to Bell the Cat,” is prophetic.
Congress Reaches $2 Trillion Stimulus Package Deal. Here’s Everything You Really Need to Know About It. By Stephen A. Crockett Jr. / The Root
Spit On, Yelled At, Attacked: Chinese-Americans Fear for Their Safety. By Sabrina Tavernise and Richard A. Oppel Jr. / NYT
The coronavirus is exacerbating vulnerabilities Native communities already face. By Maria Givens / Vox
Who is most at risk in the coronavirus crisis: 24 million of the lowest-income workers. By Beatrice Jin and Andrew McGill / Politico
As virus grips nation, advocates move to halt evictions for people of color. By Associated Press / NBC News
