National News
Teaching Hard History. Preface by Hasan Kwame Jeffries / Southern Poverty Law Center
As plantations talk more honestly about slavery, some visitors are pushing back. By Hannah Knowles / Wash Post
Virginia seminary sets aside $1.7 million to pay reparations to descendants of slaves. By Daniel Burke / CNN
White nationalism: How terrorism has changed since 9/11 — and why America won’t unite. By Mike Kelly / USA Today
Banking while black: Minority business owners with better credit scores than white counterparts face worse treatment and more scrutiny. By Tracy Jan / Wash Post
Trump’s housing finance plan will make mortgages more expensive, especially for black borrowers, housing groups say. By Tracy Jan and Renae Merle / Wash Post
What College Admissions Offices Really Want. By Paul Tough / NYT
Historically black colleges give graduates a wage boost. By Gregory N. Price / The Conversation
Why black parents of Arlington are joining forces. By Amina Luqman-Dawson, Adora Williams and Whytni Kernodle / Wash Post
Curious Kids: Who was the first black child to go to an integrated school? By Russell Wllsworth Lovell II / The Conversation
Nation’s failed weed war turned many into prisoners and others into moguls. By Eileen Rivers / USA Today
Black unemployment rate falls to a record low. By Chris Isidore / CNN
‘Aryan’ and ‘Octoroon’: Couples challenge racial labels to get married in Virginia. By Rachel Weiner / Wash Post
Isiah James Wants to Take Brooklyn’s Fight for Affordable Housing to Congress. By Aaron Freedman / The Intercept
How to help the victims of Hurricane Dorian. By Nicole Spector / NBC News
What Nashville can teach New York about school desegregation. By Ansley T. Erickson / Wash Post
North Carolina Court Strikes Down Gerrymander, Citing Smoking Gun Evidence in the Hofeller Files. By Mark Joseph Stern / Slate
The Former Slave Who Sued for Reparations, and Won. By W. Caleb McDaniel / NYT
Immigration in America Is Increasingly Asian, Female, and Middle-Class. Why Don’t We Talk About It? By Laura Thompson / Mother Jones
The graying of America’s prisons: ‘When is enough enough?’ By Eileen Rivers / USA
Cherokee Nation Names First Delegate To Congress. By Graham Lee Brewer / NPR
Black kids in Missouri are being shot down in unspeakable numbers. By kay Wicker / ThinkProgress
Jim Crow Returns to the Supreme Court. By Matt Ford / The New Republic
Probe of missing Georgia votes finds “extreme” irregularities in black districts. By Andrew O’Hehir / Salon
The Petrochemical Industry Is Killing Another Black Community in ‘Cancer Alley.’ By Mara Kardas-Nelson / The Nation
How Black Suffragettes Subverted the Domestic Sphere. By Hannah Giorgis / The Atlantic
