It's been a really busy week. So maybe you missed some stories. Like this one in Tulsa, where after years of inching closer, the city is taking an 'unprecedented' step in looking for a mass grave from the 1921 massacrehttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/05/us/tulsa-race-massacre-mass-grave.html …
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In Tennessee, a Christian college took over a beloved art school and said only faculty and staff members were Christian would be kept on. (The school's president abruptly reversed the policy, but people are still worried on campus.)https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/02/us/belmont-university-christians-barred-watkins-college.html …
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This is one of my favorites from this week: it's about a signature that may or may not be Trump's on a copy of the impeachment report, and the worlds of auction authentication and competitive eating (yes, all in one story)https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/06/us/politics/trump-signature-impeachment-report-auction.html …
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DeAndre Arnold, who was suspended over his school's policy on dreadlocks, is going to the Oscars this weekendhttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/01/us/DeAndre-Arnold-dreadlocks.html …
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In California, the governor pardoned Bayard Rustin, a civil rights leader who helped plan the Montgomery bus boycott but was convicted in the 50s under laws targeting L.G.B.T.Q. people.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/05/us/bayard-rustin-pardon.html …
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In Mississippi, the former head of the welfare agency was arrested on charges that he took part in a scheme to embezzle millions of dollars for personal use.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/05/us/john-davis-mdhs-brett-dibiase.html …
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The Little Shell tribe of Montana was finally recognized by the federal government this week. It had been trying for 125 years.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/01/us/little-shell-montana-tribe.html …
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In Pennsylvania, a cancer patient was sentenced to 10 months in prison for stealing $109 in groceries. (I love any story that includes a photo of the state's lieutenant governor, who, like many Times readers, was outraged on this woman's behalf.)https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/01/us/ashley-menser-cancer-shoplifting-pennsylvania.html …
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The Justice Department stepped in this week to investigate the Mississippi prisons where at least a dozen inmates have been killed recentlyhttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/05/us/parchman-mississippi-prisons.html …
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In Oklahoma, a grieving father drove his pickup truck onto a crowded sidewalk near a suburban high school outside of Oklahoma City, killing two teenagershttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/04/us/moore-oklahoma-teens-townsend-crash.html …
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In New York, the city announced that every first-time parent in the city will be eligible for postnatal mental health carehttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/05/nyregion/postpartum-depression-treatment-nyc.html …
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