National News
Gettysburg Makes History and Swears In the First Black and Female Mayor, Rita Frealing. By Nicole Duncan-Smith / Atlanta Black Star
Ursula Burns, the first Black woman to run a Fortune 500 company, is done taking calls from nervous white leaders. By Ellen McGirt / Fortune
Black women face higher risk of death during pregnancy. By Jericka Duncan / ABC News
A man is free after serving 37 years because of a false witness. AP and NPR
How 2021 collapsed the divide between religion and politics. By Jacob Lupfer / RNS
Religious Freedom Makes a Sacred Gathering Possible. By Frederick Clarkson / Daily Kos
Why Stefon Diggs’ good deed reveals a bad system. By Daniel P. Horan / NCR
Maxine McNair, Last Living Parent of Child Killed In 1963 Church Dies At 93. By Murjani Rawls / The Root
Louisiana Gov. To Posthumously Pardon Homer Plessy, Of ‘Separate But Equal’ Ruling. By Janet McConnaughey / HuffPost
‘Physically Erased’: Archaeologists Rediscover Fourth Forgotten Black Cemetery Near Site of Florida Office Building. By Niara Savage / Atlanta Black Star
The battle over January 6 started in 1865. By Peniel E. Joseph / CNN
The riot, the republic and the fight for America’s soul. By Jonathan Allen / NBC News
New York governor declares racism ‘public health emergency’ amid new anti-discrimination legislation. By Kiara Alfonseca / ABC News
Federal agencies underestimated threat of domestic extremism for years. By Josh Meyer and Kevin Johnson / USA Today
Alvin Bragg sworn in as Manhattan DA, taking over Trump case. By Michael B. Sisak / ABC News
Virginia Attorney General Sues Town For Alleged Discriminatory Policing. By Sarah Rankin / HuffPost
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
