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  • January 15, 2021 | Dr. John Gartner on Trump and terrorism: “If he can’t be president, he will make his force felt.” By Chauncey Devega / Salon
  • January 15, 2021 | This is the America that Black people know. By Cori Bush / Wash Post
  • January 15, 2021 | America in 2021: Racial Progress in the South, a White Mob in the Capitol. By Astead W. Herndon / NYT
  • January 15, 2021 | The Inaction of Capitol Police Was by Design. By Kelllie Carter Jackson / The Atlantic
  • January 15, 2021 | Unredacted FBI Document Sheds New Light on White Supremiacist Infiltration of Law Enforcement. By Alice Speri / The Intercept
  • January 15, 2021 | A Black senator from Georgia. By Clyde McGrady / Wash Post
  • January 15, 2021 | Don’t celebrate blue Georgia yet. The ‘old’ Georgia stubbornly endures. By Tammy Joyner / Wash Post
  • January 15, 2021 | We Need a Second Great Migration. Georgia illuminates the path to Black power. It lies in the South. Follow me there. By Charles Blow / NYT
  • January 15, 2021 | Mortality rate for Black babies is cut dramatically when they’re delivered by Black doctors, researchers say. By Tonya Russell / Wash Post
  • January 15, 2021 | Charles Blow on the greatest threat to our democracy: White supremacy. By Robbyn Mc Fadden / CBS News Video

Featured Posts

Featured January 15, 2021

The American Abyss. A historian of fascism and political atrocity on Trump, the mob and what comes next. By Timothy Snyder / NYT

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Opinion

Dr. John Gartner on Trump and terrorism: “If he can’t be president, he will make his force felt.” By Chauncey Devega / Salon


Opinion

This is the America that Black people know. By Cori Bush / Wash Post


National News

America in 2021: Racial Progress in the South, a White Mob in the Capitol. By Astead W. Herndon / NYT


Opinion

The Inaction of Capitol Police Was by Design. By Kelllie Carter Jackson / The Atlantic



National News

Unredacted FBI Document Sheds New Light on White Supremiacist Infiltration of Law Enforcement. By Alice Speri / The Intercept


National News

A Black senator from Georgia. By Clyde McGrady / Wash Post


Opinion

Don’t celebrate blue Georgia yet. The ‘old’ Georgia stubbornly endures. By Tammy Joyner / Wash Post


Opinion

We Need a Second Great Migration. Georgia illuminates the path to Black power. It lies in the South. Follow me there. By Charles Blow / NYT



National News

Mortality rate for Black babies is cut dramatically when they’re delivered by Black doctors, researchers say. By Tonya Russell / Wash Post


National News, Past Voices

I Desegregated the University of Georgia. History Is Still in the Making. By Charlayne Hunter-Gault / NYT


National News, Past Voices

Preserving New York’s Ties to the Underground Railroad. By John Freeman Gill / NYT


Culture

I Spent 35 Years Trying To Convince The World (And Myself) That I’m White. By Leah Olson / HuffPost



Culture

Crisis Behind the All-White Best Children’s Album Category. By Samantha Hissong / Rolling Stone


Sports

WNBA players helped oust Kelly Loeffler from the Senate. Will she last in the league? By Candace Buckner / Wash Post


Sports

Mike Tomlin Reaches Another N.F.L. Postseason With Fewer Black Peers. By Jonathan Abrams / NYT


Sports

It’s time for golf to make a break with Trump. By Barry Svrluga / Wash Post



National News

Democrat Jon Ossoff Has Defeated Republican David Perdue, Giving Democrats A Stunning Sweep Across Georgia’s Senate Races. By Ryan Brooks / BuzzFeed News


National News

The other Georgia slugfest: A Brian Kemp-Stacey Abrams rematch. By Andrew Desiderio / Politico


National News

A leading historian of U.S. democracy issues an urgent warning. By Greg Sargent / Wash Post


National News

DOJ asks White House if it can undo some civil rights protections. By Paul LeBlanc / CNN



Opinion

The reality of being Black in America isn’t changing fast enough. By Etan Thomas / The Undefeated


Opinion

The year of reckoning: How 2020 revealed the fault lines in American policing, and what we can expect next. By Majlie de Puy Kamp / CNN


Opinion

How Biden Can Support Black America. By Barbara Ransby / The Nation


National News

White American Wealth Hits Record High on Pandemic Stocks Surge. By Alexandre Tanzi / Bloomberg Wealth



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Book/Podcast and Video Favorites

January 15, 2021

Charles Blow on the greatest threat to our democracy: White supremacy. By Robbyn Mc Fadden / CBS News Video

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January 12, 2021

Vernon Jordan: Make It Plain. By PBS


January 11, 2021

Georgia enters final days of pivotal Senate races. By Judy Woodruff / PBS Podcast


December 28, 2020

Finding the Light in 2020. By William C. Rhoden / The Undefeated Video


December 28, 2020

The Best Black History Books of 2020. By AAIHS Editors


December 15, 2020

Review | Black America, White violence and generations of unhealed wounds. By Michael A. Fletcher / Wash Post


December 13, 2020

Ijeoma Oluo’s “Mediocre: The Dangerous legacy of White Male America.”


December 7, 2020

Book Review: ‘Black Futures,’ A Peek at the Variety, Wonder and Trauma of Black Life, Then and Now. By Kimberly Drew and Jenna Wortham. NYT


December 4, 2020

‘And THAT’S That!’: Correcting The Historical Record With Nikole Hannah-Jones. By Ja’han Jones / HuffPost Podcast


December 4, 2020

Remembering the Enslaved Who Sued for Freedom Before the Civil War. By Jennifer Szalai / NYT


December 1, 2020

“Trump is Gone.” By The Comedy Quartet / YouTube


November 20, 2020

In ‘A Promised Land,’ Barack Obama Thinks — and Thinks Some More — Over His First Term. By Jennifer Szalai / NYT


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