National News
California could pay Black Americans reparations after 2023. By Orlando Mayorquin / USA Today
Black neighborhoods at risk as climate change accelerates flooding. By Patrick Galey / NBC News
Leonard Peltier is America’s longest-held Indigenous prisoner. He should be freed. By Janene Yazzie and Nick Estes
The Supreme Court’s Christian conservative revolution is upon us. By Ian Millhiser / Vox
First African American picked for key Southern Baptist Convention post. AP and NPR
Josephine Baker’s life asks Catholics to imagine new ways to respect all — especially Black women. By Patrick Saint-Jean / NCR
ABC Suspends Whoopi Goldberg Over Holocaust Comments. By Jenny Gross and Neil Vigdor / NYT
The Racial Politics of Demobilizing USCT Regiments. By Holly A. Pinheiro, Jr / AAIHS
The story behind Black History Month — and why it’s celebrated in February. By Jonathan Franklin / NPR
Remembering Harry T. Moore, a forgotten fighter for civil rights. By Greg Allen / NPR
A&T Four is more than a monument, it’s a moment that changed the world. By Alexis Davis / The Undefeated
16 queer Black trailblazers who made history. By Gwen Aviles, Ariel Jao and Brooke Sopelsa / NBC News
Biden Promised a Black Woman on the Supreme Court. By Charles M. Blow / NYT
New congressional districts ‘attack’ people of color, report finds. By Bill Keveney / USA Today
Voting rights activists plan protests in Selma, other historic sites. Deborah Barfield Berry ? USA Today
The GOP Dials Up Its Attacks on Critical Race Theory. By Sasha Abramsky / The Nation
Biden’s Federal Reserve Nominee Lisa Cook Is Facing A Racist Smear Campaign. By Amanda Terkel / HuffPost
VMI’s first Black superintendent blasts White critics of diversity and equity reform. By Ian Shapira / Wash Post
The sacred work of white discomfort. By Robert P. Jones / Religion News
On Holocaust Remembrance Day, lessons from three popes’ visits to Auschwitz. By Yehiel E. Poupko / NCR
Why Students Need to Learn about Reconstruction. By Ryann Miller / The Progressive
In the Black South, You’re Always Considered. By Imani Perry / The Atlantic
Remarkable photos of Black America 100 years ago. By Leslie Gornstein / CBS News
This Black woman judge laid the groundwork for those who would follow. By Brandon Tensley / CNN
Remains of massacred ancestors returned to Wiyot Tribe. By Brian Melley / AP and ABC News
Supreme Court Will Hear Challenge to Affirmative Action at Harvard and U.N.C. By Adam Liptak and Anemona Hartocollis / NYT
