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US breast cancer rate drops 43% in three decades, but racial disparities remain, American Cancer Society report finds. By Jacqueline Howard / CNN
Fannie Lou Hamer’s Message to Contemporary America. By Keisha N. Blain / AAIHS
How Black troops lost out in bid to sever Army post’s Confederate ties. By Alex Horton / Wash Post
Philadelphia apologizes for experiments on Black inmates. By AP and NPR
Did the civil rights movement use military tactics to topple Jim Crow? By Kevin Boyle / Wash Post
NASA astronaut Nicole Mann now first Native American woman in space. By Scott Gleeson / USA Today
Killings of rappers are more than just a hip-hop problem, experts say. By Char Adams / NBC News
A Lost Manuscript Shows the Fire Barack Obama Couldn’t Reveal on the Campaign Trail. By Timothy Shenk / NYT
‘Death by a thousand cuts’: Georgia’s new voting restrictions threaten midterm election. By Sam Levine / The Guardian
University makes major push for diversity without considering race, gender in admissions. By John Yang and Cat Wise / PBS
‘Help me find my children’: How race affects social media efforts to find missing kids. By Doug Caruso, Rachel Looker and Ashley Luthern / USA Today
In wake of abortion scandal, Herschel Walker attends closed-door prayer event. By Jack Jenkins / RNS
United Methodists’ Native American International Caucus calls for end to Columbus Day. By Emily McFarlan Miller / Religion News Service
How Supreme Court Diversity Has Shaped American Life. By Amber Phillips / Wash Post
Richard Wright’s Legacy of Exposing Racial Violence Honored on Anniversary of Elaine Massacre in Arkansas. By Amy Goodman / Democracy Now
Supreme Court holds investiture ceremony for Ketanji Brown Jackson. By Lawrence Hurley / NBC News
The top issues Latino voters are worried about in the 2022 midterms. By Christian Paz / Vox
Alabama’s high-stakes Supreme Court fight over racial gerrymandering in Merrill v. Milligan. By Ian Millhiser / Vox
Hurricane Ian: Fort Myers Black residents suffering amid devastation. By Nada Hassanein / USA Today
Why aren’t flagship universities enrolling more Black students from their state? By Meredith Kolodner / NBC News
Michael Flynn, Trump and America’s Christian nationalism threat. By Bradley Onishi / NBC News
How “religious freedom” became a right-wing assault on equality and the rule of law. By Paul Rosenberg / Salon
Survey: Confederate memorials still divide Americans and religion is a big predictor. By Yonat Shimron / RNS
‘Sisters in the Wilderness’ after 30 years: Resiliency and survival as the legacy of womanist theology. By LaRyssa D. Herrington / NCR
Can Liberal Evanston, Illinois, Atone for Its Racist Past? By Kari Lydersen / The New Republic
Native Americans’ decades long struggle for control over sacred lands is making progress. By Rosalyn R. Lapier / The Conversation
The CIA honors Underground Railroad hero Harriet Tubman as model spy with new statue. By Dan De Luce / NBC News
My great-grandparents died in the Holocaust and were almost forgotten. By Zoe Zolbrod / Salon
Just how racist is the MAGA movement? This survey measures it. By Jenifer Rubin / Wash Post
Ex-Texas police officer acquitted of murder in fatal shooting of man at gas station. By Tim Stelloh / NBC News
