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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 …

Or this one, in which an Iranian woman living in fear was flooded with tweets of support from U.S. embassies, which confused her because the U.S. has a ban on letting people like her enter the country.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/01/us/shohreh-bayat-chess-head-scarf.html …

In Missouri, a lawmaker is so upset at drag queen story hours that he's introduced a bill that would jail librarians for providing “age-inappropriate sexual material”https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/03/us/missouri-libraries-sexual-books.html …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …