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A new study finds that the U.S. places with the most polluted air in the 1980s remain the most polluted today. Poor people and people of color are more likely to live in places with dirty air.

Only 22 of the league's 30 teams will play in the truncated season. The NBA is experimenting with keeping players in a so-called "bubble" to try to keep the coronavirus from seeping into its ranks.

"Naming it the John Lewis Voting Rights Act — that is a fine tribute," former President Barack Obama said. "But John wouldn't want us to stop there."

Former Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain died of COVID-19 complications. He was 74 years old.

News stories often describe anti-police protests as being "mostly peaceful," with some violence. In reality, two kinds of protests are going on, and there's tension over tactics.

Colette Pierce Burnette of Huston-Tillotson University says keeping students and staff safe was paramount. Black people are dying from COVID-19 at two and a half times the rate of white people.

The company's sales went through the roof between April and June, hitting close to $89 billion — a 40% increase from a year earlier. Amazon added 175,000 new hires to help keep up with the demand.

Oregon was founded on white supremacist principles. But it also has a long history of anti-racist protests, says Lisa Bates, who teaches urban studies at Portland State University.

An interview with the author of "Hunger," and with boxer Patricio Manuel. Also, a new "How I Made It" segment with the Afro-Dominican band Yasser Tejeda & Palotré.

"He believed that in all of us, there exists the capacity for great courage, that in all of us there is a longing to do what's right," former President Barack Obama says of his friend and mentor.