National News
Democrats Have the Most Racially Diverse Field Ever. The Top Tier Is All White. By Astead W. Herndon and Jonathan Martin / NYT
In Milwaukee, an inner-city group tackles a key Democratic need: Turning out black voters. By Jenna Johnson / Wash Post
North Carolina’s Congressional Gerrymander Is Dead. By Mark Joseph Stern / Slate
The FBI Spends a Lot of Time Spying on Black Americans. By Alice Speri / The Intercept
John Conyers, longest-serving African American Congressman, dies at 90. By David Cohen / Politico
HBCU black parents saddled with risky college student debt because of Parent Plus Loan. By Kimberly Jin and Sruthi Darbhamulla / USA Today
Sexual Violence Against Enslaved Men. By Kevin C. Quinn / AAIHS
Impeachment Polls Show Democrats Are Wooing the Wrong White People. By Steve Phillips / The Nation
Kamala Harris ‘could not believe’ Trump got criminal justice award, she says at forum. By Deepa Shivaram, Dereh Gregorian and Janelle Griffith / NBC News
WATCH: Maya Rockeymoore-Cummings’ full remembrance at her husband Rep. Elijah Cummings’ funeral. You Tube
Elizabeth Warren Unveils Education Plan To Fight Segregation And High-Stakes Testing. By Rebecca Klein / HuffPost
The Charter-to-Prison Pipeline. By Alexandria Millet / The Progressive
Julián Castro’s ‘First Chance Plan’ May Be His Last Shot. By Jamil Smith / Rolling Stone
The Net Worth Of Every 2020 Presidential Candidate. By Dan Alexander / Forbes
H.B.C.U.s’ Sink-or-Swim Moment. By Delece Smith- Barrow / NYT
White UConn students were arrested for shouting the n-word. Black students say the incident is part of a larger problem. By P.R. Lockhart / Vox
White Evangelicals Stand Behind Trump Despite Impeachment Inquiry: Survey. By Carol Kuruvilla / HuffPost
How Florida Republicans Are Talking About Impeachment. By Darlena Cunha / NYT
The Terror Gap: U.S. Laws Let White Supremacists Operate Like ISIS. By Rita Katz/ Daily Beast
A mob lynching of 4 black sharecroppers in 1946 is focus of court battle over grand jury secrecy. By The Associated Press
Cities with more black residents rely more on traffic tickets and fines for revenue. By Akheil Singla / The Conversation
When James Baldwin Squared Off Against William F. Buckley Jr. By Thomas Meaney / NYT
Challengers To Florida ‘Poll Tax’ Law Targeting Ex-Felons Get Preliminary Win. By Tierney Sneed / Talingpointsmemo
Inside the “Most Incarcerated” Zip Code in the Country. By Caleb Gayle / The New Republic
A radical way to mobilize black voters in 2020: Work on issues, not voting. By Janell Ross / NBC News
Some minority workers are up to 20% more likely than white workers to report canceled shifts at work. By Nathaniel Meyersohn / CNN
