Wilton Gregory, the archbishop of Washington, D.C., and a leader of the U.S. Roman Catholic Church’s response to its sexual abuse crisis, was among 13…
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To Reduce Racial Inequality, Raise the Minimum Wage
After a summer of protests over the killing of George Floyd broadened into a wider reckoning on racial injustice, corporate America and the political establishment…
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A Voting Rights Battle in a School Board ‘Coup’
AMERICUS, Ga. — One mother worked at Habitat for Humanity. The other helped teenagers who had run afoul of the law. Their sons played soccer…
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How to Steal an Election
Around supper time on Election Day, 1880, the poll workers in Bolivar County, Miss., were getting hungry. Someone ran out for sardines and crackers. The…
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The Sunday Read: ‘My Mustache, My Self’
Listen and subscribe to ‘The Daily’ Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher During months of pandemic isolation, Wesley Morris, a critic at large for The…
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End Minority Rule
The Trump presidency has brought American democracy to the breaking point. The president has encouraged violent extremists; deployed law enforcement and other public institutions as…
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Black Players Continued a Mentoring Tradition Amid a Pandemic
Early in his major league career, Curtis Granderson never went hungry around Dmitri Young, particularly in Kansas City, Mo. Whenever the Detroit Tigers traveled there,…
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LeBron James on Black Voter Participation, Misinformation and Trump
More Than a Vote, the collective of athletes headlined by the basketball star LeBron James, on Wednesday will introduce its final political push before Election…
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The Pandemic’s Real Toll? 300,000 Deaths, and It’s Not Just From the Coronavirus
The coronavirus pandemic caused nearly 300,000 deaths in the United States through early October, federal researchers said on Tuesday. The new tally includes not only…
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Kappa Alpha, Fraternity That Reveres Robert E. Lee, Faces Revolt Over Racism
Kappa Alpha, one of the nation’s largest and oldest college fraternities, is not unaccustomed to fending off charges of racism. Its embrace of Robert E.…
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