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Rediscovering the lives of the enslaved people who freed themselves. By Mary Niall Mitchell ,Joshua D. Rothman, Edward E. Baptist, Vanessa Holden and Hasan Kwame Jeffries / Wash Post
Frederick Douglass’s Original New York Times Obituary From 1895
Trump keeps warning of a coup. But the only one in American history was a bloody, racist uprising. By Isaac Stanley-Becker / Wash Post
New York City to Ban Discrimination Based on Hair. By Stacey Stowe / NYT
When Does Kicking Black People Off Juries Cross a Constitutional Line? By Adam Liptak / NYT
When black students are beaten in school — and black educators are to blame. By Stacey Patton / Wash Post
Equal-Opportunity Evil. By Rebecca Onion / Slate
An editor and his newspaper helped build white supremacy in Georgia. By Kathy Roberts Forde / The Conversation
Meet Annie Turnbo Malone, the hair care entrepreneur Trump shouted out in his Black History Month proclamation. By Nadra Nittle / Vox
Supreme Court to decide if the Trump administration can rig the Census to favor white people. By Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress
Ocasio-Cortez Slams The ‘Racial Injustice’ Of The Cannabis Business As White Men Profit. By Mary Papenfuss / HuffPost
Racial Disparities In Cancer Incidence And Survival Rates Are Narrowing. By Patti Neighmond / NPR
The black men of the Civil War were America’s original ‘dreamers.’ By Colbert King / Wash Post
Blocked from taking Confederate statues down, Atlanta, Birmingham, Memphis try other ideas. By Nicquel Terry Ellis / USA Today
North Carolina To Have Its First Black Woman As Supreme Court Chief Justice. By Kimberly Richards / HuffPost
Pioneering Black Scientist Wins ‘Nobel Prize For The Environment.’ By Marlene Cimons / Huff Post
New York City Public Schools Should Be Evaluated Based on Diversity, Not Just Tests, Panel Says. By Eliza Shapiro / NYT
Yes, politicians wore blackface. It used to be all-American ‘fun.’ By Rhae Lynn Barnes / Wash Post
Inside the Radical, Uncomfortable Movement to Reform White Supremacists. By Alyssa Schykar / Mother Jones
The House Takes on America’s Voting-Rights Problem. By Jelani Cobb / The New Yorker
Democrats court rural Southern voters with Stacey Abrams’ State of the Union response. By Sharon Austin / The Conversation
African-Americans’ economic setbacks from the Great Recession are ongoing – and could be repeated. By Vincent Adejumo / The Conversation
Cleaner Classrooms and Rising Scores: With Tighter Oversight, Head Start Shows Gains. By Jason DeParle / NYT
Dying while black: Perpetual gaps exist in health care for African-Americans. By Yolanda Wilson / The Conversation
When the Suffrage Movement Sold Out to White Supremacy. By Brent Staples / NYT
European colonizers killed so many Native Americans that it changed the global climate, researchers say. By Laurent Kent / CNN
A federal law is hurting Native American children. It must be struck down. By Ken Paxton / Wash Post
The Will to Kill, in Black and White. Race has played a heavy hand in the fates of soldiers facing death sentences in the U.S. military. By Bill Lueders / The Progressive
Sojourner Truth’s “Ain’t I a Woman” is one of the greatest speeches in American rhetoric. By Constance Grady / Vox
Cory Booker’s 2020 policy agenda: ‘Baby bonds,’ criminal justice reform, action on climate change. By Jeff Stein / Wash Post
