National News
New Documents Prove Tennessee County Disproportionately Jails Black Children, and It’s Getting Worse. By Meribah Knight, , and Ken Armstrong and Hannah Fresques / ProPublica
When A Prison Sentence Of 10 Years And 6 Months Turns Into Forever. By Jessica Schulberg / HuffPost
Online learning, racial tensions and ‘the talk’: Black parents raising children amid multiple crises. By Patrice Gaines / NBC News
Whitmer signs bill reopening Michigan’s first historically Black college. By Mark Hicks / The Detroit News
The Moral Chasm That Has Opened Up Between Left and Right Is Widening. By Thomas B. Edsall / NYT
I Grew Up Celebrating New Year’s Eve Like Frederick Douglass. By Esau McCaulley / NYT
Dr. Bethune’s Last Will & Testament. By Mary Mcleod Bethune / BCU History
On Toni Morrison, divine feminine power and Afro-Catholicism. By Nadra Nittle / National Catholic Reporter
Following Father Theodore Hesburgh through Civil Rights era. By Christopher Booker / Religion and Ethics Newsweekly and PBS NewsHour
Lee statue will move to Richmond’s Black History Museum. By Deepa Shivaram / NPR
Former boarding school for Indigenous children owning up to its past. By Peter Smith / NCR
Civil rights leaders of 1961 about resisting injustice today. By Mike Thompson / USA Today
Wrongfully Accused: The Exoneration of Black People. By Noah A. McGee / The Root
Legacy of Black architect Paul Williams is not new but it’s worthy of celebration all the same. By Lauren Floyd / Daily Kos
Poor People’s Campaign, progressive members of Congress vow to fight on for BBB. By Sarah Anderson / Salon
Top Florida newspaper knocks Gov. Ron DeSantis for fear-mongering “critical race theory” bill. By Bob Brigham / Raw Story
It’s a YouTube Inauguration for Pittsburgh’s First Black Mayor. By Keith Reed / The Root
Challengers say ‘race blind’ redistricting maps are anything but. By Tierney Sneed / CNN
How a state capital became one of the deadliest US cities. By Peter Nickeas and Priya Krishnakumar / CNN
Sickle Cell Math Is Brutally Simple, but Not Widely Taught. By Gina Kolata / NYT
Who Gets to Define What It Means to Live? By Nick Romeo / NYT
Last Known Slave Ship Is Remarkably Well Preserved, Researchers Say. By Michael Levenson / NYT
The Fight to Remember the Black Rebellion at Igbo Landing. By Remenda Cyrus / Mother Jones
New venue for revised look at U.S. racism’s history: roadside markers. CBS News
How the Hart–Celler Act Changed America. By Ruth Milkman / Dissent
Black-owned hospice focuses on end-of-life disparities. By Blake Farmer / NPR
