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2020 Democrats Wrestle With A Big Question: What Are Reparations? By Danielle Kurtzleben / NPR
After decades of effort, African-American enrollment in medical school still lags. By Jayne O’Donnell and David Robinson / USA Today
Republican Lawmaker Freaks Out When Democrat Says Using a Black Person as a Prop is a “Racist Act.” By Daniel Politi / Slate
Chicago To Get Its First Black Female Mayor As Candidates Head To Runoff. By Matthew S. Schwartz / NPR
Bernie Sanders Vows To Fight ‘All Forms Of Racism’ In First Televised Town Hall. By Daniel Marans / HuffPost
Overcoming A ‘Long, Bitter Relationship,’ Grand Canyon And Tribes Mark Centennial. By Laurel Morales / NPR
A new report finds predominantly white school districts get $23 billion more in funding than nonwhite ones. By Jay Croft / CNN
Doctors and Racial Bias: Still a Long Way to Go. By Aaron Carroll / NYT
What Catholic Church records tell us about America’s earliest black history. By Jane Landers / The Conversation
U.S. Hate Groups Rose 30 Percent In Recent Years, Watchdog Group Reports. By Leila Fadel / NPR
Arrested Coast Guard Officer Allegedly Planned Attack ‘On A Scale Rarely Seen.’ By Greg Myre / NPR
2020 Democrats Embrace Race-Conscious Policies, Including Reparations. By Astead W. Herndon / NYT
Defying US Borders, Native Americans Are Asserting Their Territorial Rights. By Michelle Chen / The Nation
Opioids claiming more African-American lives as overdoses spread from Rust Belt to East Coast. By Corky Siemaszko / NBC News
Ole Miss Basketball Players Kneel During National Anthem as Pro-Confederacy Groups Hold Rally On Campus. By Nick Greene / Slate
Overlooked No More: Dorothy Bolden, Who Started a Movement for Domestic Workers. NYT Obituraries
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
