National News
Latinas are well represented in the labor force. In Congress, not so much. By Suzanne Gamboa / NBC News
Shelly Lowe confirmed as chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities. By Peggy McGlone / Wash Post
VMI will change honor system that expels Black cadets at disproportionate rates. By Ian Shapira / Wash Post
MLK’s Forgotten Call for Economic Justice. By Martin Luther King Jr. / The Nation
The Dissenters Trying to Save Evangelicalism From Itself. David Brooks / NYT
Connect! Unite! Act! Thinking about a moral budget. By Christopher Reeves / Daily Kos
Ice Cube’s ‘Good Day’ taught me how to pray the Examen. by Shemaiah Gonzalez / NCR
Reject racism to ‘live the way’ Creator intended us to live, cardinal says. By Richard Szczepanowski / NCR
The True Legacy of Lynching Lies in How We Remember the Victims. By Clint Smith / The Atlantic
Did You Study the Slave Trade in School or Were You Out That Day. By A.E. Rooks / The Daily Beast
Black History Month founder showed how schools should teach about race. By DeNeen L. Brown / Wash Post
In Maryland, a segregated school is one of many in the country to be preserved. By Joseph Williams / Wash Post
First Black University of Alabama student to share a building name with a Klan Leader. By AP and NPR
Malcolm X’s daughter calls for federal inquiry into his murder. By Deena Zaru and Stephanie Wash / ABC News
How Trayvon Martin’s life and death inspired a generation to fight for justice. By Giselle Rhoden and Kaanita Iyer / CNN
Atlanta’s unexpected civil rights museum: Its airport. By Larry Bleiberg / Wash Post
Bomb Threats Made To Historically Black Schools Across U.S. By AP and HuffPost
Georgia’s Stacey Abrams raised $9.25 million in governor bid. By AP and ABC News
Anti-Asian hate crimes increased 339 percent nationwide last year, report says. By Kimmy Yam / NBC News
California could pay Black Americans reparations after 2023. By Orlando Mayorquin / USA Today
Black neighborhoods at risk as climate change accelerates flooding. By Patrick Galey / NBC News
Leonard Peltier is America’s longest-held Indigenous prisoner. He should be freed. By Janene Yazzie and Nick Estes
The Supreme Court’s Christian conservative revolution is upon us. By Ian Millhiser / Vox
First African American picked for key Southern Baptist Convention post. AP and NPR
Josephine Baker’s life asks Catholics to imagine new ways to respect all — especially Black women. By Patrick Saint-Jean / NCR
ABC Suspends Whoopi Goldberg Over Holocaust Comments. By Jenny Gross and Neil Vigdor / NYT
