National News
The Origins of Herschel Walker’s Complicated Views on Race. By Michael Kruse / Politico
Report finds democracy is declining in the U.S. with Trump, Capitol attack cited. By Mano Sundaresan and Amy Isackson / NPR
Andre Dickens Elected Mayor of Atlanta. By Rachel Pilgrim / The Root
Bill Cosby: Supreme Court asked to review overturned conviction. By Maria Puente / USA Today
How the Real Estate Boom Left Black Neighborhoods Behind. By Vanessa Gregory / NYT
What to know about the trial of ex-officer Kim Potter, who killed Daunte Wright. By Becky Sullivan / NPR
After Ahmaud Arbery’s Death, This Group Demanded Change. By Margaret Coker / Wash Post
CDC says Black, Latino bisexual and gay men have higher HIV rates. By Gabriela Miranda / USA Today
Carrie Meek, Pioneering Black Former Congresswoman, Dies. By Freida Frisaro / HuffPost
Enslaved Women’s Sexual Health: Reproductive Rights as Resistance. By Crystal Webster / AAIHS
An Alabama city is facing a $25,000 fine for changing a street named after Jefferson Davis. By Christina Zdanowicz / CNN
The Missing Voices In The Panic Over Critical Race Theory. By Melinda D. Anderson / HuffPost
In Minneapolis Schools, White Families Are Asked to Help Do the Integrating. By Sarah Mervosh / NYT
After Rittenhouse, protesters are asking: What about sex-trafficking victim Chrystul Kizer? By Anne Branigin and and Jessica Contrera / The Lilly
White women backed Glenn Youngkin for Virginia governor. That shouldn’t have come as a surprise, experts say. By Karina Elwood / Wash Post
Judge vacates death sentences of Pervis Payne, who was to be executed for a crime he says he didn’t commit. By Dakin Andone / CNN
W.E.B. Du Bois’ only grandchild, Yolande Du Bois Irvin, dies at 89. By Felix Carroll / The Berkshire Eagle
$3 million Maryland grant will tackle colleges’ leadership ‘caste system. By Lauren Laumpkin / Wash Post
Spreading the wealth: Black-owned investment firms tackle the racial finance gap. By Patrice Worthy / The Guardian
From slavery to Jim Crow to George Floyd: Virginia universities face a long racial reckoning. By Nick Anderson and Susan Svrluga / Wash Post
Enslaved to a Founding Father, She Sought Freedom in France. By Martha S. Jones / NYT
Former slaves brought American Thanksgiving to Liberia — and rebooted it. By Vicky Hallett / NPR
The Black people who lived in Walden Woods long before Henry David Thoreau. By Sydney Trent / Wash Post
Burial Ground Under the Alamo Stirs a Texas Feud. By Simon Romero / NYT
Unfinished History of Indigenous Slavery In America. By Kevin Waite / The Atlantic
In Charlottesville, the Nazis Were Finally Held to Account. By Dahlia Lithwick / Slate
