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Black and other minority farmers who have endured a long history of discrimination are the intended recipients of $4 billion in debt forgiveness through the March pandemic relief law.

USDA and Black farmers

By Mary C. Curtis, Joanne Levine and Evan Campbell
Posted May 27, 2021 at 1:40pm
Michael Steele, former chairman of the Republican National Committee (RNC), addresses the RNC's 2011 Winter Meeting held at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in National Harbor, MD.

“We can’t give in to Jan. 6”

By Mary C. Curtis, Joanne Levine and Evan Campbell
Posted May 20, 2021 at 8:00am
Cecilia Rouse, chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, listens during the weekly economic briefing in the Oval Office at the White House on April 9, 2021.

Righting economic wrongs of the past

By Mary C. Curtis, Joanne Levine and Evan Campbell
Posted May 11, 2021 at 6:00am
Professor Dorothy Brown combines data, legal scholarship, interviews and personal stories in her new book “The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans — And How We Can Fix It."

The tax lady cometh

By Mary C. Curtis, Joanne Levine and Evan Campbell
Posted May 6, 2021 at 8:00am
Jaime Harrison ran for Lindsey Graham's Senate seat in 2020, but ultimately lost. He's now the Democratic National Committee chair.

DNC Chair Jaime Harrison

By Mary C. Curtis, Joanne Levine and Evan Campbell
Posted April 28, 2021 at 6:00am
People congregate Tuesday in Atlanta in front of a mural of George Floyd following the guilty verdict at the trial of Derek Chauvin, a former Minneapolis police officer.

‘More people are afraid of the police than community violence’

By Mary C. Curtis, Joanne Levine and Evan Campbell
Posted April 22, 2021 at 3:41pm
A voter walks up to a voter booth to cast her ballot at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020.

Jim Crow 2.0

By Mary C. Curtis, Joanne Levine and Evan Campbell
Posted April 8, 2021 at 8:00am
Speaker Nancy Pelosi, center, joins from left, Rep. Veronica Escobar, Rep. Carolyn Maloney, Rep. Jackie Speier, Rep. Brenda Lawrence and Rep. Lois Frankel during an event to mark the passage of a resolution extending the deadline for the Equal Rights Amendment last week.

Back to the Future: The ERA

By Mary C. Curtis, Evan Campbell and Joanne Levine
Posted March 25, 2021 at 8:00am
Charles Spurlin gets his first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine from EMT Valeria Montes at St. Mark Baptist Church in Long Beach, Calif. The mobile vaccine clinic focused on Black seniors as one way to help address equity in the city's coronavirus inoculation program.

What the pandemic taught America about racial injustice

By Mary C. Curtis, Joanne Levine and Evan Campbell
Posted March 11, 2021 at 8:00am
Impeachment manager Stacey Plaskett walks through the first floor of the Senate on Feb. 12 during a break in the chamber’s impeachment trial of Donald Trump.

A window into the life and work of Stacey E. Plaskett

By Mary C. Curtis, Joanne Levine and Evan Campbell
Posted March 4, 2021 at 6:36pm