Ayanna Pressley’s challenge to the Democrat Mike Capuano in Massachusetts shows how the left is looking for candidates with “lived experience.”
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Detroit Schools Turn Off Drinking Water, Citing Elevated Lead and Copper | The New York Times
When public school students in Detroit return to their classrooms next week for the first day of the school year, the water fountains will be dry.
View MoreThe Religion of Whiteness Becomes a Suicide Cult | The New York Times
A wounded and swaggering identity geopolitics puts the world in grave danger.
View MoreWhy LeBron James has carried us long enough The Guardian
The NBA superstar’s social heft is beyond dispute, but it shouldn’t be on him to fix the problems that vex our nation
View More‘It’s hidden history’: the race to save one man’s collection of black Americana | The Guardian
From a slave’s collar to segregation signs, Oran Z has spent years collecting often shocking mementoes of America’s racial struggles. Now it all lies in shipping containers – and no institution will touch it
View MoreBlack Women Are Dying During Childbirth. Sen. Kamala Harris Is Working to Change That. | Glamour
The U.S. is one of 13 countries in the world where maternal mortality rates are worse than they were two decades ago. And that alarming statistic hits one group of women the hardest.
View MoreDocumenting ‘Slavery by Another Name’ in Texas | The New York Times
An African-American burial ground recently unearthed in Texas reveals details about an ugly chapter in the history of the American South.
View MoreThe Complicated Activism of Arthur Ashe | Politico
Fifty years after his U.S. Open win, the tennis player-turned-advocate offers a model for other athletes—and the rest of us, too.
View MoreAndrew Gillum wins Florida governor primary in upset victory for the left | Vox
The Tallahassee mayor will be the Democratic nominee in one of 2018’s most important governor’s races.
View MoreAretha Franklin Died from Pancreatic Cancer: Here’s Why It’s So Deadly | Healthline
The Queen of Soul’s death is raising questions — and awareness — about a rare form of cancer.
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