National News
Bryan Stevenson, Legacy Museum founder, on American enslavement and modern-day incarceration. By Jamil Smith / Vox
Monument honoring indigenous women to replace Columbus statue in Mexico City. By AP and NPR
Mary McLeod Bethune statue to replace Confederate general in Capitol. By Eileen Zaffiro-Kean / USA Today
Black Women, Self-Making, and Liberty. By Ashley Everson / AAIHS
Timuel Black Jr., historian and civil rights activist, dies at 102. By Grace Hauck and Javonte Anderson / USA Today
‘Echoes of the Past’: Study Points to Redlining as a Factor in Premature Birth, Maternal Health. By Joseph P. Williams / US news
When It Costs $53,000 to Vote. by Jesse Wegman / NYT
Justice Department won’t charge officer who shot Jacob Blake. By Victoria Albert / CBS News
A slavery petition was the latest racist incident at this school. Parents and lawmakers are fed up. By Evan McMorris-Santoro and Linh Tran / CNN
California becomes first state to require ethnic studies for high school graduation. By Meryl Kornfield / Wash Post
New York City to Phase Out Its Gifted and Talented Program. By Eliza Shapiro / NYT
A Safe Space’: Black Pastors Promote Vaccinations from the Pulpit. By Liam Stack / NYT
Why white students are far more likely to graduate than Black students at public universities. By Olivia Sanchez / NBC News
One of the nation’s oldest Black churches unearthed in Virginia. By Ben Finley / USA Today
Lawrence Reddick and the Communal Acts of Black History. By Stephen G. Hall / AAIHS
Indigenous Peoples’ Day: Biden becomes first president to mark day.
Senate Confirms Top Prosecutors for Manhattan and Brooklyn. By Matt Stieb / New York Magazine
How Latinos are growing and reshaping the United States. By Suzanne Gamboa and Nicole Acevedo / NBC News
Study confirms pandemic hit Black Americans, Native Americans and Latinos harder than Whites. By Maggie Fox / CNN
Federal judge rejects comparisons between Capitol insurrection and racial justice unrest. By Hannah Rabinowitz / CNN
California Governor Signs Law To Improve Outcomes For Black Birthing People And Babies. By Sarah Ruiz-Grossman / HuffPost
After years of inequity, it’s time to support historically black colleges. By Javaid Siddiqi / The Hill
George Floyd may be granted posthumous pardon in 2004 drug arrest. Juan A. Lozano / USA Today
Jury orders Tesla to pay more than $130 million in discrimination suit, which alleged racist epithets and hostile work environment. By Faiz Siddiqui / Wash Post
Henrietta Lacks Estate Sues Company Using Her ‘Stolen’ Cells. By Michael Kunzelman / HuffPost
The brutal trade in enslaved people within the US has been largely whitewashed out of history. By Joshua D. Rothman / The Conversation
