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Black and Hispanic students pay more for college loans, study finds. By Gwen Aviles / NBC News
There Have Been 10 Black Senators Since Emancipation. By Eric Foner / NYT
Mary Ellen Pleasant, one of the first black self-made millionaires, used an ingenious trick to build her fortune. By Tom Huddleston Jr. / CNBC
White Supremacist Propaganda Spreading, ADL Says. By AP / HuffPost
Alabama Lawmakers Want to Force One of America’s Blackest Cities to Celebrate White Supremacy. By Michael Harriot / The Root
Border officials destroy Native American burial grounds to build Trump’s wall: report. By Igor Derysh / Salon
Howard University’s Largest Donation Ever Raises Questions About Who Gets Donor Coins. By Jenny Gathright / NPR
Hoyer promises D.C. statehood vote on House floor ‘before the summer.’ By Jenna Portnoy / Wash Post
Jesse Owens Vs. Hitler Wasn’t The Only Story At The 1936 Olympics. By Andrew Maraniss / The Undefeated
Malcolm X assassination case may be reopened after Netflix documentary. By Elisha Fieldstadt / NBC News
The Billion-Dollar Disinformation Campaign to Reelect the President. By McKay Coppins / The Atlantic
When White Women Wanted a Monument to Black ‘Mammies.’ By Alison M. Parker / NYT
Our Ancestors Were Sold to Save Georgetown. ‘$400,000 Is Not Going to Do It.’ By DaVita Robinson, Valerie White and Maxine Crump / NYT
Virginia will eliminate a state holiday honoring Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson. It’ll make Election Day a day off instead. By Scottie Andrew / CNN
Led by a 22-year old, ‘image-obsessed’ white nationalists in masks march on Washington. By Jessica Sutherland / Daily Kos
Virginia can take a step toward racial justice with marijuana reform. By Brad Haywood and Sean Perryman / Wash Post
New study shows racism may shorten black Americans’ lifespans. By Liam Knox / NBC News
Strivings of the Negro People. By W.E. Burghardt Du Bois / The Atlantic August 1897 Issue
DOJ To Investigate Mississippi Prisons After Spate Of Inmate Deaths. By Scott Neuman / NPR
Kweisi Mfume Wins the Special Primary for Elijah Cummings’ Congressional Seat. By Julia Craven / Slate
New Philadelphia police chief starts amid surge in homicides. By Associated Press
What Donald Trump Wants From Black Americans. By Zak Cheney -Rice / New York Magazine
Tidal wave of voter suppression’ washes over states, lawyer says. By Janell Ross / NBC News
What Are the Democratic Candidates’ Climate Proposals for Black America? By Julia Craven / Slate
The Long History of the Anti-Abortion Movement’s Links to White Supremacists. By Alex DiBranco
Tulsa plans to dig for suspected mass graves from a 1921 race massacre. By DeNeen L. Brown / Wash Post
Young Black Americans who want to explore their roots can take a free birthright trip to Africa. Here’s how. By Alaa Elassar / CNN
Newsom grants posthumous pardon to civil rights leader Bayard Rustin. By Phil Willon / LA Times
Trump just gave Americans a lesson in white history. By Jessica Machado / Vox
Watch LeBron James’ Heartfelt, Unrehearsed Tribute to Kobe Bryant. By Josh Levin / Slate
