National 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
Va. attorney general overturns 58 historic legal opinions that perpetuated racism. By Emily Davies / Wash Post
Georgia takes center stage as Biden’s visit kicks off year of political battles. By Eric Bradner / CNN
Democrat Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick wins House seat in Florida special election. By David Weigel / Wash Post
Barrier-breaking Black prosecutor faces deadly racist threats. By Christina Carrega / CNN
Symone Sanders, former spokeswoman for Vice President Harris, takes job at MSNBC. By Cleve R. Wootson Jr.
From the Capitol insurrection to the Taliban takeover: The defining religion stories of 2021. By RNS Staff
Can I get an amen? Black Americans’ faith, religious practice detailed in Pew study. By Adelle M. Banks / Religion News
