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Carol of the Bells: How a Ukrainian folk tune adapted by murdered composer became a Christmas classic.
— Read on slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/12/carol-bells-shchedryk-ukraine-leontovych.amp

Native people were excluded from the first 70 years under the U.S. Constitution, which explicitly regarded “Indians not taxed,” or those living on reservations or unsettled territories, as not countable.
— Read on rewire.news/article/2019/12/09/paper-genocide-the-erasure-of-native-people-in-census-counts/

African Americans are the only racial group that has been left behind as the economy improved.
— Read on www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/09/15/african-americans-are-the-only-racial-group-in-u-s-still-making-less-than-they-did-in-2000/

A conversation with Tara Westover on the urban/rural divide
— Read on www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/12/tara-westover-trump-rural-america/600916/

GreatSchools’ ratings effectively penalize schools that serve largely low-income students and those serving largely black and Hispanic students.
— Read on www.chalkbeat.org/posts/us/2019/12/05/greatschools-ratings-poverty-race-segregation-housing/

Op-ed: How architecture can challenge privilege and power.
— Read on nextcity.org/features/view/design-justice-for-an-unjust-world

A new report spells out how to move from the top-down, grant-based model for community development to a more localized, entrepreneurial approach.
— Read on www.citylab.com/equity/2019/11/urban-revitalization-poverty-inequality-research-class-race/602602/

The Cocking Affair: UGA’s Commitment to White Supremacy – The Activist History Review
— Read on activisthistory.com/2019/11/27/the-cocking-affair-ugas-commitment-to-white-supremacy/amp/

NCRC found that many major American cities showed signs of gentrification and some racialized displacement between 2000 and 2013.
— Read on ncrc.org/disinvestment/

America’s reticence to tax wealth can be traced back to the gruesome days of slavery, when human beings were kidnapped then bought and sold as property.
— Read on www.forbes.com/sites/pedrodacosta/2019/11/18/americas-reluctance-to-tax-wealth-has-its-roots-in-slavery/amp/