National News
Lessons from a ‘violence interrupter’ as shootings continue to ravage Chicago. By Deena Zaru / ABC News
We’re redefining what leadership looks like’: Asian Americans show rapid rise in US politics. By Maya Yang / The Guardian
What a $50 Million Donation Did for One H.B.C.U. By Gina Cherelus / NYT
Wilmington marks 123 years since coup and massacre. By Scott Neuman / NPR
What would be 43-year wrongful imprisonment could be near end. By CBS News
Open carry by Black self-defense groups predates Black Panthers. By Javonte Anderson / USA Today
The 1619 Project and the Long Battle Over U.S. History. By Jake Silverstein / NYT
In School Board Races, Opposing Critical Race Theory Wasn’t A Knockout Winner. By Liz Skalka / HuffPost
Welch Won By Widest Margin In History; Black Voters A Vital Force In True Multicultural Victory. By Gypsy Gelardo / The Power Broker
Atlanta mayor’s race results: Moore advances to runoff, Dickens ahead of Reed. By Wilbom P. Nobles III and J.D. Capelouto / AJC
The Federal Reserve is overwhelmingly White. Biden is being pushed to appoint Black members to its board. By Joe Davidson / Wash Post
Census Bureau’s first Latinx director Robert Santos confirmed by the Senate. By Hansi Lo Wang / NPR
Colin Powell funeral: President, military leaders to honor trailblazer. By Joey Garrison / USA Today
In the nation’s communities of color, ‘loss on top of loss on top of loss.’ And that was true even before covid arrived. By Akilah Johnson / Wash Post
Prosecutors Say Ahmaud Arbery Was Killed On White Defendants’ False ‘Assumptions.’ By Phillip Jackson / HuffPost
How Police Justify Killing Drivers: ‘The Car Was a Weapon.’ By Kim Barker, Steve Eder, David D. Kirkpatrick and Arya Sundaram / NYT
California Tries to Close the Gap in Math, but Sets Off a Backlash. By Jacey Fortin / NYT
In North Carolina, a new Civil War memorial honors Black Union soldiers. By Kevin Maurer / WashPost
This tribe helped the Pilgrims survive for their first Thanksgiving. They still regret it 400 years later. By Dana Hedgpeth / Wash Post
How Thousands of Black Farmers Were Forced Off Their Land. By Kali Holloway / The Nation
Virginia is not the nation: Across the U.S., diverse candidates became mayors of major cities. By Mark Sumner / Daily Kos
‘Defund the Police’ Plan Rejected in Minneapolis as Buffalo Voters Revolt Against Socialist. By Justin Klawans / Newsweek
Poll shows Herschel Walker far ahead in Georgia Senate primary. By Natalie Allison / Politico
Inside Biden’s Hardline Approach to End Redlining. By Robert Davis / The Progressive
‘Patriot Purge’: Tucker Carlson’s Sinister New Documentary. By Anne Applebaum / The Atlantic
Love And Blood Quantum. By Kat Chow / NPR
