National News
Lonnie Bunch III Set To Become Smithsonian Institution’s First Black Secretary. By Colin Dwyer / NPR
Jaime Harrison launches campaign against Lindsey Graham in South Carolina. By James Arkin / Politico
How Black Farmers Are Trying To End Centuries Of Racism In America’s Food System. By Marissa Evans / HuffPost
Overcoming a History of Bias in a Budding Industry. By Bianca Flowers / The Progressive
Look Good, Do Good: Madam C.J. Walker and Rihanna’s Beauty Politics. By Tiffany M. Gill / AAIHS
Inside the U.S. military’s battle with white supremacy and far-right extremism. By Jeff McCausland / NBC News
Black people are still suffering from police violence. Is America still listening? By P.R. Lockhart / Vox
Discriminatory housing practices linked to higher pollution and asthma rates, new report finds. By E.A. Crunden / ThinkProgress
Going Native: ‘The Struggle to Care for Our Own.’ By Mark Anthony Rolo / The Progressive
Racial wealth gap is vast: 2020 Democrats have plans to close it. By Benjy Sarlin / NBC News
A billionaire will pay off debt of Morehouse College’s 2019 graduates. Here is what that gesture means. By Darran Simon / CNN
Elizabeth Warren Takes a Different Strategy to Court the Black Vote. By Adam Harris / The Atlantic
New poll shows black voters want 2020 candidates with big policy plans, not just big names. By P. R. Lockhart / Vox
Russian documents reveal desire to sow racial discord — and violence — in the U.S By Richard Engel, Kate Benyon-Tinker and Kennett Werner / NBC News
Black women start a walking movement to battle the obesity epidemic. By Christopher Dawson / CNN
Trump judicial nominees decline to endorse Brown v. Board under Senate questioning. By Laura Meckler and Robert Barnes / Wash Post
Koreatown, Little Saigon and South Asians: As Asian Americans diversified, so did their communities. By Caitlin Yoshiko Kandil / NBC News
Black Women in Chicago, Getting Things Done. By Salamishah Tillet / NYT
SAT Adversity Index: A Drive Toward Diversity Without Discussing Race. By Anemona Hartocollis and Amy Harmon / NYT
Populist alliances of ‘cowboys and Indians’ are protecting rural lands. By Zoltan Grossman / The Conversation
Undistorting the Civil War. By Jamelle Bouie / NYT
65 year since Brown v. Board of Ed, school segregation persists. By Janelle Richards, Rehema Ellis and Elissa Candiotti / NBC News
“I Now Have the Perspective of Both Sides”: 18 Voting Officials Take Civil Rights Tour. By Jessica Huseman / ProPublica
‘He’s white, male and gay’: Buttigieg hits obstacles with black voters. By Daniel Strauss and Elena Schneider / Politico
Tackle white supremacy as terrorism, experts say. By Mallory Simon and Sara Sidner / CNN
How 1800s racism birthed Chinatown, Japantown and other ethnic enclaves. By Caitlin Yoshiko Kandil / NBC News
