National News
Lawsuit Challenging N.Y.C. School Segregation Targets Gifted Programs. By Eliza Shapiro / NYT
Racial slurs at VMI ‘a common experience’ for Black cadets, investigators told. By Ian Shapira / Wash Post
Cornel West Is Leaving Harvard After Tenure Dispute. By Anemona Hartocollis / NYT
How This Unsung Black Entrepreneur Changed The Food Industry Forever—And Made A Lot Of Dough. By Brianne Garrett / Forbes
Joe Biden just launched the second war on poverty. By Dylan Matthews / Vox
Biden to sign order expanding voting rights on Bloody Sunday anniversary. By Sam Levine / The Guardian
Campaigns for Reparations Are Gaining Steam Across the Country. By David lamb / The Progressive
How the Pandemic Economy Could Wipe Out a Generation of Black-Owned Businesses. By Lydia DePillis / ProPublica
White People Got COVID-19 Vaccines Meant for Others. By Janell Ross / Time
The George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2021, explained. By Sean Collins / Vox
A small-town congregation sold its church. A whites-only group moved in. By Billy Ball / Wash Post
Jackson, Mississippi has a water crisis because our state legislature has a race problem. By Donna Ladd and NBC News
One Old Way of Keeping Black People From Voting Still Works. By Jamelle Bouie / NYT
What the policing response to the KKK in the 1960s can teach about dismantling white supremacist groups today. By David Cunningham / The Conversation
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin brings experience dealing with racism, extremism to Pentagon. By Lisa Martinez / ABC News
The Senate filibuster has a racist past and present. End it so America can move forward. By Rashad Robinson / USA Today
Mike Pence’s Blueprint for Permanent Authoritarian Rule. New York Magazine
FBI Director Says Domestic Extremism ‘Metastasizing’ Around The Country. By Nick Visser / HuffPost
Stockton’s Basic Income Experiment Has Spectacular Outcome for Progressivism, Covid Relief Package. By Mrmuni 12 / Daily Kos
The White Fear That Drove the College Cheating Scandal. By Nicole Laporte / Time
Losing generation of activists who fought racism proves need for Asian American studies. By Claire Wang / NBC News
Mississippi Must Pay $500,000 To Man Wrongfully Imprisoned 23 Years. By Sara Boboltz / HuffPost
Smith College controversy highlights struggles colleges face in making racially equitable campuses. By Taylor Romine / CNN
Colleges confront their links to slavery and wrestle with how to atone for past sins. Calvin Schermerhorn / The Conversation
Johnson & Johnson vaccine deepens concerns over racial and geographic inequities. By Isaac Stanley-Becker / Wash Post
Vernon Jordan, civil rights leader and presidential confidant, dies at 85. By Judy Woodruff / PBS
