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  • April 22, 2021 | Black Leaders Warn Of Fallout If Derek Chauvin Acquitted: By Jemina McEvoy / Forbes
  • April 22, 2021 | Chicago Releases Video Of Police Fatally Shooting 13-Year-Old Adam Toledo. By Sanjana Karanth /HuffPost
  • April 22, 2021 | Police Hold ‘Extraordinary’ Power In Traffic Stops, Law Professor Says. By Noel King and Avie Schneider / NPR
  • April 22, 2021 | Republicans, Saying the Quiet Part Loud, Discuss Plans for “Anglo-Saxon” Traditions Caucus. By Pema levy / Mother Jones
  • April 22, 2021 | History shows we ignore Tucker Carlson at our peril. By Nicole Hemmer / CNN
  • April 22, 2021 | Merrick Garland rolls back Trump-era restrictions on forcing local police reforms. By David Nakamura / Wash Post
  • April 22, 2021 | Florida Senate passes controversial ‘anti-riot’ bill pushed in wake of Black Lives Matter protests. By Dartunorro Clark / NBC News
  • April 22, 2021 | U.S. Suicides Declined Over All in 2020 but May Have Risen Among People of Color. By Roni Caryn Rabin /NYT
  • April 22, 2021 | America desperately needs a Truth and Racial Healing Commission. By Mitch Landrieu / CNN
  • April 22, 2021 | Flagship universities say diversity is a priority. But Black enrollment in many states continues to lag. By Lauren Lumpkin, Meredith Kolodner and Nick Anderson / Wash Post

Featured Posts

Featured April 22, 2021

Minnesota Is One of the Best Places to Live in America. Unless You’re Black. By Samuel L. Myers Jr. / NYT

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National News

Black Leaders Warn Of Fallout If Derek Chauvin Acquitted: By Jemina McEvoy / Forbes


National News

Chicago Releases Video Of Police Fatally Shooting 13-Year-Old Adam Toledo. By Sanjana Karanth /HuffPost


Opinion

Police Hold ‘Extraordinary’ Power In Traffic Stops, Law Professor Says. By Noel King and Avie Schneider / NPR


National News

Republicans, Saying the Quiet Part Loud, Discuss Plans for “Anglo-Saxon” Traditions Caucus. By Pema levy / Mother Jones



Opinion

History shows we ignore Tucker Carlson at our peril. By Nicole Hemmer / CNN


National News

Merrick Garland rolls back Trump-era restrictions on forcing local police reforms. By David Nakamura / Wash Post


National News

Florida Senate passes controversial ‘anti-riot’ bill pushed in wake of Black Lives Matter protests. By Dartunorro Clark / NBC News


National News

U.S. Suicides Declined Over All in 2020 but May Have Risen Among People of Color. By Roni Caryn Rabin /NYT



Opinion

America desperately needs a Truth and Racial Healing Commission. By Mitch Landrieu / CNN


Collegiate Voices, National News

Flagship universities say diversity is a priority. But Black enrollment in many states continues to lag. By Lauren Lumpkin, Meredith Kolodner and Nick Anderson / Wash Post


Opinion

Black doctor speaks out about infant son’s death: Why Black babies are more at risk. By Katie Kindelan / GMA


National News

VMI selects first Black superintendent as racial climate comes under scrutiny. By Ian Shapira / Wash Post



Opinion

Why ‘Karens’ Are a Threat to Racial Progress. By Agunda Okeyo / The Progressive


National News

Restorative Justice in Indian Country. By Michelle Chen / Dissent


National News, Past Voices

40 acres and a mule: How the first reparations for slavery were reversed. By DeNeen L. Brown / Wash Post


National News, Past Voices

Documentary highlights Chinese Titanic survivors barred from U.S., erased from history. By Kimmy Yam / NBC News



National News

From Emmett Till to Daunte Wright, the eerie ties among Black victims of violence. By Sydney Trent / Wash Post


Culture

Trevor Noah On The Grim Reality Of Having ‘The Talk’ In Black Families. By Josephine Harvey / HuffPost


Culture

Did the Music Industry Change? A Race ‘Report Card’ Is on the Way. By Ben Sisario / NYT


Culture

Long excluded from country music, Black women are finally breaking through. By Amna Nawaz and Gretchen Frazee / PBS



Culture

Roberta Flack’s musical gift to us has spanned more than 5 decades. By Denise Oliver Velez / Daily Kos


Sports

A Black high school baseball team won a championship in 1969. Their hometown waited 50 years to celebrate. By Gregory S. Schneider / Wash Post


Sports

Dwyane Wade purchases ownership stake in Utah Jazz. By Ben Golliver / Wash Post


Sports

Do I Really Belong Here?’: Korean Americans in the N.B.A. Wonder. By Seth Berkman / NYT



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Book/Podcast and Video Favorites

April 16, 2021

How Integration Came to the American League, in Cleveland’s Glory Days. By John Williams / NYT

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April 5, 2021

John Lewis’s posthumous new graphic novel will be out this summer, in time for a new battle over voting rights. By Michael Cavna / Wash Post


March 29, 2021

How Our Tax Code Is Rigged Against Black Americans. By Michael Mechanic / Mother Jones


March 19, 2021

Don Lemon loses it on Sen. Tim Scott for ‘woke supremacy’ comment: ‘What are you doing?’ Yahoo News


March 19, 2021

2021 Finalists for the Pauli Murray Book Prize in Black Intellectual History. By AAIHS Editors


March 6, 2021

“Renegades” Podcast Review: Obama and Springsteen Are Here to Lull America. By Lauren Michele Jackson / The New Yorker


March 6, 2021

One hope for the next generation of Black athletes. By Kevin Carroll / The Undefeated


February 26, 2021

The Book That Should Change How Progressives Talk About Race. By Michelle Goldberg / NYT


February 26, 2021

In ‘The Dead Are Arising,’ Malcolm X’s spirit is still very much alive. By Justin Tinsley / The Undefeated


February 26, 2021

Stacey Abrams on her New Legal Thriller ‘While Justice Sleeps.’ By Jazz Tangcay / Variety


February 26, 2021

The Essential Toni Morrison. By Veronica Chambers / NYT


February 26, 2021

In Netflix’s stirring “Amend,” stars anguish over the injustices that led to the 14th Amendment. By Melanie McFarland / Salon


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