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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
A fight over gifted education in New York is escalating a national debate over segregated schools. By Erin Einhorn / NBC News
Teaching America’s truth. By Joe Heim / Wash Post
Teaching Slavery : A Dark Legacy Comes to Light. By Joe Heim / Wash Post
The ‘1619 Project’ Curriculum Challenges Teachers to Reframe U.S. History. By Madeline Will / Education Week
Remember that new SAT ‘adversity score’? That’s no longer happening. By Kendall Tramell and Chris Boyette / CNN
Desegregation Plan: Eliminate All Gifted Programs in New York. By Eliza Shapiro / NYT
Everyone is talking about 1619. But that’s not actually when slavery in America started. By Ciara Torres-Spelliscy / Wash Post
After shootings, El Paso and Latino groups amp up action against gun violence, white supremacy. By Suzanne Gamboa / NBC News
Aaron Burr, the Vice President best known for shooting Alexander Hamilton, had a secret biracial family. By Leah Asmelash / CNN
