National News
Joe Biden Is Going Back to the Clinton Playbook. The Democratic frontrunner’s campaign is pitched to white folks who have fled the party. Sound familiar? By Bob Moser / The New Republic
Why Racial Gaps In Maternal Mortality Persist. By Patti Neighmond / NPR
HIV hits black women hardest, CDC report says. Shamard Charles / NPR
The promise of historic Brown v. Board school desegregation ruling is ‘at grave risk,’ report says. By Valerie Strauss / Wash Post
Baby Steps Toward Guaranteed Incomes and Racial Justice. By Courtney E. Martin / NYT
Opioid Addiction Drug Going Mostly To Whites, Even As Black Death Rate Rises. By Martha Bebinger / NPR
All-White Neighborhoods Are Dwindling as America Grows More Diverse. By Emily Badger, Quoctrung Bui and Robert Gebeloff / NYT
How advocates are writing Asian American stories back into history books. By Agnes Constante / NBC News
After the floods: the struggle for survival in a tiny Mississippi town. By Jamiles Lartey / The Guardian
Columbus brought measles to the New World. It was a disaster for Native Americans. By Michael S. Rosenwald / Wash Post
‘A dream ticket’: Black lawmakers pitch Biden-Harris to beat Trump. By Heather Caygle and John Bresnahan / Politico
History In the Making: Groundbreaking 32 Black Female Cadets to Graduate from U.S. Military Academy This Year. By Tanasia Kenney / Atl Black Star
Weeksville, a Haven for Free African-Americans Before the Civil War, Is Fighting for Survival. By Corina Knoll and Morgan Jenkins / NYT
Russian Efforts to Exploit Racial Divisions in 2016 Found Firm Ground in U.S., Report Says. By Mihir Zaveri and Jacey Fortin / NYT
Cory Booker unveils ‘sweeping’ but ‘simple’ gun violence prevention plan. By Rebecca Buck / CNN
Once Defiant, All Four White Supremacists Charged in Charlottesville Violence Plead Guilty. By A. C. Thompson / ProPublica
The failure of Reconstruction was a ruthless act of sabotage. By Michael Gerson / Wash Post
Why Don’t White Athletes Understand What’s Wrong With Trump? By Jemele Hill / The Atlantic
In their differences, Tiger Woods and Alex Cora show America belongs to us. By Roxanne Jones / CNN
Univ. of Alabama’s first black student receives honorary doctorate. By Ali Gostanian / NBC News
A symbol of slavery — and survival. By Deneen L. Brown / Wash Post
Black Mississippi student says in lawsuit she was denied graduation honor because of race. By Minyvonne Burke / NBC News
The Rich Legacy of African American Political and Intellectual History. By Robert Greene II / Black Perspectives
Black imprisonment rates are down. It’s important to know why. By Charles lane and Keith Humphreys / Wash Post
Florida Legislature approves bill requiring former felons to pay fines and fees before voting. By P.R. Lockhart / Vox
The Punisher skull: Unofficial logo of the white American death cult. By David Masciotra / Salon
