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The following story will move Monday as this week’s Tuesday Spotlight, a feature showcasing the best off-the-news enterprise in the AP report:

ELECTION 2020-VOTING-SOULS TO THE POLLS

NEW YORK — Voter mobilization in Black church communities will look much different in 2020 because of a pandemic that has taken a disproportionate toll on Black Americans. In recent election cycles, predominantly Black congregations across the country have launched get-out-the-vote campaigns commonly referred to as “souls to the polls.” But instead of packing buses and vans to shuttle voters to polling places that open before Election Day, church leaders are rewriting their playbook. They’re organizing socially distant caravans, stepping up their phone-banking efforts and making sure their members request and return mail-in ballots well ahead of the deadlines. By Aaron Morrison. UPCOMING: 1,240 words, photos, video.

—The AP