National News
Black History Month: The Afro-Indigenous—Native Americans with African ancestry. By Denise Oliver Velez / Daily Kos
America’s last slave ship stole them from home. It couldn’t steal their identities. By Joel K. Bourne, Jr., Sylviane Diouf and Chelsea Brasted / National Geographic
Slavery reparations seem impossible. In many places, they’re already happening. By Thai Jones / Wash Post
Val Demings has an American dream. The impeachment trial is testing it. By Ellen McCarthy / Wash Post
Editorial: Trump’s tax cuts are exploding the deficit. The poor are going to wind up paying the tab. By The Editorial Board/ LA Times
Among poorest 20 percent of Americans, one-third of income goes to health care: study. By Nicole Karlis / Salon
Trump allies are handing out cash to black voters. By Ben Schreckinger / Politico
Mississippi’s governor is shutting down a unit inside the prison where 9 inmates have died. By Christina Maxouris / CNN
Saved by the Supreme Court: Conservative justices boost Stephen Miller’s anti-immigration agenda. By Sophia Tesfaye / Salon
Bloomberg offers plan to confront racial economic inequality. By Associated Press
Trump’s Stealth Plan To Preserve White Electoral Power. By Ari Berman / Mother Jones
Lindsey Graham’s Democratic Challenger Nearly Tied in Heavily-Republican South Carolina, Poll Shows. By Benjamin Fearnow / Newsweek
The complicated beauty of student debt forgiveness, according to the CEO who cleared the loans of nearly 400 Morehouse grads. By Abigail Jhess / CNBC
Anita Hill: It’s too late for Joe Biden to apologize for botching Clarence Thomas hearings. By Matthew Rozsa / Salon
After Our Reporting, Connecticut Officials Are Taking On Housing Segregation. By Jacqueline Rabe Thomas and Jenna Carlesso / Propublica
Supreme Court Could Be Headed To A Major Unraveling Of Public School Funding. By Nina Totenberg / NPR
A New Face of White Supremacy: Plots Expose Danger of the ‘Base.’ By Neil MacFarquhar and Adam Goldman / NYT
Slavery, and American Racism, Were Born in Genocide. By Greg Grandin / The Nation
LeBron James opens up and reflects on Kobe Bryant after passing him on NBA scoring list. By Jeff Zillgitt / USA Today
How Republicans made millions on the tax cuts they pushed through Congress. By Peter Cary / Center for Public Integrity and Vox
Auschwitz survivors bear witness as anti-Semitic attacks rise. By Melissa Bell / CNN
The Neighborhoods We Will Not Share. By Richard Rothstein / NYT
Ella Baker’s Legacy Runs Deep. Know Her Name. By Barbara Ransby / NYT
More Slayings at Parchman as Mississippi Confronts Prison Crisis. By Rick Rojas / NYT
Rural Montana Had Already Lost Too Many Native Women. Then Selena Disappeared. By Jack Healy / NYT
The Necessity of the Indian Child Welfare Act. By Leah Litman and Matthew L M. Fletcher / The Atlantic
