National News
Charlottesville city council votes to remove Confederate statues that were the focus of violent 2017 ‘Unite the Right’ rally. By Gregory S. Schneider / Wash Post
Analysis: Obama and Trump intensify their battle over democracy. By Stephen Collinson / CNN
Biden’s Tulsa speech offers a powerful rebuke to the GOP’s whitewash of history. By Max Boot / Wash Post
What if America’s future looks more like Florida than California? By James Hohmann / Wash Post
Black Lives Matter Has Grown More Powerful, and More Divided. By John Eligon / NYT
Pandemic misery index reveals far-reaching impact of COVID-19 on American lives, especially on Blacks and Latinos. By Kyla Thomas / The Conversation
Medical Journals Blind to Racism as Health Crisis, Critics Say. By Apoorva Mandavilli/NYT
In Texas, a struggle to memorialize a brutal lynching as resistance grows to teaching historical racism. By Sydney Trent / Wash Post
One of the Earliest Memorial Day Ceremonies Was Held by Freed African Americans. Dave Ross / History
Germany faced its horrible past. Can we do the same? By Michele L. Norris / Wash Post
Greenwood Rising Links Tulsa’s Tragic History to Today’s Struggles. By Holland Cotter / NYT
Native American tribe in Maine buys back island taken 160 years ago. By Alice Hutton / The Guardian
The Black Hero Behind One of the Greatest Supreme Court Justices. By Peter S. Canellos / Politico
A Florida school board is renaming middle and high schools honoring Confederate leaders. By Alaa Elassar / CNN
100 Experts Express ‘Growing Alarm’ That Republicans Are Endangering Democracy. By Josephine Harvey / HuffPost
Biden in Tulsa: “This Was Not a Riot. This Was a Massacre.” By Abigail Weinberg / Mother Jones
The Brewing Political Battle Over Critical Race Theory. By Barbara Sprunt / NPR
Black women’s next targets: Governorships and Senate seats. By Bill Barrow / AP and ABC News
The Promise and Pressures of Deb Haaland, the First Native American Cabinet Secretary. By Elizabeth Williamson / NYT
Donna Brazile, one of Fox News’ last remaining liberals, quietly leaves network. By Zachary Petrizzo / Salon
As graduates cheered, an HBCU president announced that their debt to the university was wiped away. By Jaclyn Peiser / Wash Post
Before Tulsa, this Georgia county forced out nearly all Black residents. By Ryann Young / CNN
The Reconstruction Origins of Black Wall Street. By Alexander E. Stern / AAIHS
Shot 55 years ago while marching against racism, James Meredith reminds us that powerful movements can include those with very different ideas. By Aram Goudsouzian / The Conversation
Service, patriotism and the promise of Black liberation. By E.J. Dionne Jr. / Wash Post
Jim Crow Killed Voting Rights for Generations. Now the GOP Is Repeating History. By Ari Berman / Mother Jones
