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Closing the Racial Wealth Gap. By Courtney E. Martin / NYT
Arkansas To Remove Confederate Statue In U.S. Capitol, Add Johnny Cash, Daisy Bates. By Ed Mazza / HuffPost
Review: Essential History in ‘Reconstruction’ on PBS. By Mike Hale / NYT
When Slaveowners Got Reparations. By Tera W. Hunter / NYT
Vanderbilt Student Senate Approves Bill to Rename Calhoun Hall, Two More Buildings Due to Slave-Owning Past. By Jenni Fink / Newsweek
When Medical Schools Become Less Diverse. By Adam Harris / The Atlantic
Facing Segregated Schools, Parents Took Integration Into Their Own Hands. It’s Working. By Eliza Shapiro / NYT
Aretha Franklin wins posthumous 2019 Pulitzer Prize. By Associated Press
Trump and Pence tweeted about Notre Dame fire but said nothing when 3 black churches burned. By Eugene Scott / Wash Post
Can a Prosecutor Ever Truly Be Progressive? Ferguson May Be the Ultimate Test Case. By Jacob Rosenberg / Mother Jones
Jackie Robinson was asked to denounce Paul Robeson. Instead, he went after Jim Crow. By Johnny Smith / The Undefeated
Georgetown students vote to raise tuition by $27 per semester to pay slavery reparations. By Abigail Hess / CNBC
How the 2020 Democrats Responded to Trump’s Attacks on Ilhan Omar. By Astead W. Herndon / NYT
A Few More Black Students Are Offered Spots at Stuyvesant, Fanning Fresh Uproar. By Eliza Shapiro / NYT
Former ‘Ebony’ Publisher Declares Bankruptcy, And An Era Ends. By Karen Grigsby Rates / NPR
Letters from Joe Biden reveal how he sought support of segregationists in fight against busing. By Jeff Zeleny / CNN
The Utter Inadequacy of America’s Efforts to Desegregate Schools. By Alana Semuels / The Atlantic
Trump blocks U.S. from nominating anyone to U.N. racism committee. By Casey Michel / ThinkProgress
What does ‘white fragility’ mean? Facebook discussions about race add new words to dictionaries. By Jessica Guynn / USA Today
Pew Survey: 67 Percent of Whites Have Never Experienced Racial Discrimination, While 76 Percent of Blacks Have. By David Love / Atl Black Star
The fight against white supremacy could learn something from America’s first war on terror. By Charles Lane / Wash Post
‘Our country is FULL!’: Trump’s declaration carries far-right echoes that go back to the Nazi era. By Isaac Stanley-Becker / Wash Post
Texas Tech Medical School To End Use Of Race In Admissions. By Richard Gonzales / NPR
Inside 100 million police traffic stops: New evidence of racial bias. By Erik Ortiz / NBC news
Salon talks to Gates about American history and his new PBS doc “Reconstruction: America After the Civil War.” By Melanie McFarland / Salon
FBI Chief Christopher Wray Warns Of ‘Persistent, Pervasive’ White Supremacy Threat. By Mary Papenfuss / HuffPost
‘There Is Clearly Something Happening’: Fires Destroy 3 Black Churches In Louisiana. By Shannon Van Sant / NPR
2020 Democrats vow to sign House reparations study bill. By Maeve Reston and Gregory Krieg / CNN
63 years after landmark Brown v. Board case, segregated classrooms persist. By Adam Northam / USA Today
Pete Buttigieg Explains His Agenda For Black Voters. By Danielle Kurtzleben / NPR
