National News
Emily’s List Selects Laphonza Butler, First Woman Of Color, To Lead Organization. By Deepa Shivram / NPR
Senate Democrats Close To Agreement On Voting Rights Compromise. By Paul Blumenthal / HuffPost
Judge Blocks Florida’s GOP-Backed ‘Anti-Riot’ Law. By Curt Anderson / HuffPost
Louisiana Police Head Would Welcome A DOJ Probe Into Racial Profiling / NPR
Black Opioid Overdose Deaths Increasing Faster Than Whites, Study Finds. By Marisa Penaloza / NPR
Hunger rose for Latino and Black families in 2020 despite federal pandemic aid. By Reuters / NBC News
Minorities And Women In The Air Force Face Harassment And Bias, A Study Finds. By AP / NPR
The pandemic released a wave of anti-Asian hate. Now they’re fighting bias in their own pews. By Sarah Ngu / NBC News
Vice President Kamala Harris to visit Hampton to advocate for more focus on STEM. By Mia Berry / The Undefeated
Queen Elizabeth supports Black Lives Matter movement, says aide. By Jack Guy / CNN
Robert E. Lee was a stone-cold loser. By Dana Milbank / Wash Post
Where are the monuments to Confederate Gen. James Longstreet? By Stephen A. Holmes / CNN
Alphaeus Hunton: The Fight for Equality and Liberation during WWII. By Tony Pecinovsky / AAIHS
George W. Bush compares violent domestic extremists to 9/11 terrorists. By Sarah Elbeshbishi / USA Today
Facing execution, Julius Jones seeks clemency — with help from an unlikely ally. By Kim Bellware / Wash Post
Facebook’s AI Seems to Have a Racism Problem. By Edwin Rios / Mother Jones
HBCUs grapple with vaccination mandates as students return to campus. By Dartunorro Clark / NBC News
Theorists, Strategists, and Histories of Slavery. By Diana Paton / AAIHS
Shattering the Hollywood Myths of the Tulsa Race Massacre. By Tirhakah Love / Daily Beast
The Pittsburgh Courier’s Discursive Power, 1910-1940. By Adam Lee Cilli / AAIHS
Critical race theory turning school boards into GOP proving grounds. By Daniel Payne / Politico
Jackie Johnson: Former district attorney indicted in connection to Ahmaud Arbery case. By Martin Savidge and Angela Barajas / CNN
Jury selection is notoriously racist. Arizona has a bold plan to fix it. By Ian Millhiser / Vox
A Federal Job Guarantee: The Unfinished Business of the Civil Rights Movement. By Rep. Ayanna Pressley and David Stein
Curtis Flowers, freed from prison, sues DA who prosecuted him 6 times. By Emily Wagster Pettus / USA Today
How Texas abortion law is undermining Native American women’s reproductive justice. By Erik Ortiz / NBC News
