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A Black Pastor and Former Cop Walk Into a Walmart to Return a TV. So Why Were They Handcuffed and Accused of Stealing It? Monday, Sep. 13, 2021

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A volunteer, right, speaks with a person who received a Covid-19 vaccine shot at the University of New Mexico's Gallup campus in Gallup, N.M., on March 23.Cate Dingley / Bloomberg via Getty Images file

How the Navajo Nation, once battered by the coronavirus, is staring down a delta surge Monday, Sep. 13, 2021

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Funko Star Wars collectibles are on sale at the pop-up location of Gulfcoast Cosmos comic shop at the corner of Emancipation Boulevard and Elgin Street on Saturday, July 24, 2021, in Houston. Mark Mulligan, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographer

Houston's Black neighborhoods saw a surge of new businesses. Experts point to COVID and BLM. Tuesday, Sep. 7, 2021

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Black High School Principal in Texas Says District Ordered Him to Remove Picture of Him and His Wife from Facebook Tuesday, Sep. 7, 2021

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A tombstone of a young Oglala Lakota student buried at the old Carlisle Indian School cemetery. Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis News Collection via Getty Images

How Native students fought back against abuse and assimilation at US boarding schools Tuesday, Sep. 7, 2021

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What’s Really to Blame for Low Black Vaccination Rates Monday, Aug. 30, 2021

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Robin DiAngelo in Seattle in July. Jovelle Tamayo/Slate

What’s Missing From “White Fragility” Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2021

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Bruce Lee's daughter is tired of white men trying to tell her father's story Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2021

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Law enforcement officers clear an area of demonstrators during a protest over the fatal shooting of Daunte Wright during a traffic stop, outside the Brooklyn Center Police Department in Brooklyn Center, Minn. AP

Law enforcement struggles to recruit since killing of George Floyd Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2021

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What’s Missing From the Discourse About Anti-racist Teaching Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2021

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