National News
“Blacks and Jews” authors: “Whoopi is not the enemy” but “it may be too late” for America anyway. By Alison Stine / Salon
Paul Robeson–The Revolutionary. By Tony Pecinovsky / AAIHS
Looking Beyond Affirmative Action. By Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic
Biden seeks to burnish anti-crime credentials in NYC visit. By Annie Linskey / Wash Post
North Carolina Supreme Court strikes down redistricting maps. By AP and NPR
HBCUs have long been a target for racial backlash. By Tat Bellamy-Walker/ NBC News
Minneapolis Police Killed Amir Locke in a No-Knock Raid—After the City Promised to Ban Them. By Eamon Whalen / Mother Jones
Ahmaud Arbery’s killers headed to federal trial after withdrawing guilty pleas on hate crime charge. By David K. Li / NBC News
Who Is Pamela Moses? Black Woman Sentenced to Prison for Trying To Vote. By Isabel Van Brugen / Newsweek
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
