National News
In New Orleans, the Ghosts of Slavery Hide in Plain Sight. By Imani Perry / NYT
Theodore Roosevelt statue removed from outside New York’s Museum of Natural History. By Adela Suliman / Wash Post
Tuskegee Airmen recognized with Top Gun honor 73 years after winning. By David Martin / CBS News
Black Mississippi senators protest bill to ban critical race theory. By AP and NPR
Florida GOP Pushes Bill To Shield White People From ‘Discomfort’ Of Racist Past. By Brendan Farrington / HuffPost
Minneapolis’ 1st Black police chief leaves quietly. By AP and NBC News
Jay-Z’s Team Roc puts pressure on DOJ to investigate Kansas City, Kansas, police. By Erik Ortiz / NBC News
Why Are Minority-Owned Banks Disappearing? Washington Holds the Smoking Gun, By Gene Ludwig / Politico
America’s Ugliest Confederate Statue Is Gone. Racism Isn’t. By Margaret Renkl / NYT
New Jersey requires K-12 schools to teach Asian American history. Mary Chao / USA Today
Highways, High-Rises And Food Deserts. By E. James West / AAIHS
Celebrated Tuskegee Airman Charles McGee dies at 102. AP and NPR
Democrats Push Struggling Voting Rights Showdown to Tuesday. Lisa Hagen / US News
The American polity is cracked, and might collapse. Canada must prepare. By Thomas Honer-Dixon / The Globe and Mail
‘Not enough’: Critics say proposed Pa. districts limit Latino representation. By Nicole Acevedo / NBC News
‘Tenants have no choice’: Racism in urban planning fuels high rate of Black fire deaths. By Char Adams / NBC News
‘Because we know it is possible’: Japanese Americans join fight for reparations. By Michela Moscufo / NBC News
He transformed a small university in Maryland. Now Freeman Hrabowski is ready for his next act. By Lauren Lumpkin / Wash Post
Jon Meacham, Bishop Michael Curry discuss religion, politics and insurrection. By Jack Jenkins / Religion News
Joe Biden Vows To ‘Stand Against’ Anti-Semitism After Colleyville Hostage Standoff. By Khaleda Rahman / Newsweek
American secularism is growing — and growing more complicated. By Michelle Boorstein / Wash Post
Evangelicals do battle with “critical race theory” in new online video course. By Kathryn Joyce / Salon
How Ohio’s Indigenous sacred sites became a religious flashpoint. By Diana Kruzman / RNS
Ethical US consumers struggled to pressure the sugar industry to abandon slavery with less success than their British counterparts. By Calvin Schermerhorn / The Conversation
Black Remembrance and Racial Violence in New Orleans. By Sowande’ M. Mustakeem / AAIHS
MLK And Lillian Smith. By Matthew Teutsch / AAIHS
