National News
Despite business warnings, GOP moves ahead with voting bills. By Acacia Coronado and Bill Barrow / ABC News
Attorney General Merrick Garland cites domestic terrorism and civil rights in defending budget to House lawmakers. By Christina Carrega, Chandelis Duster and Jessica Schneider / CNN
Asian-American Business Leaders Fund Effort to Fight Discrimination. By Andrew Ross Sorkin and Edmund Lee / NYT
Justice Clarence Thomas, Long Silent, Has Turned Talkative. By Adam Liptak / NYT
Help, We Can’t Stop Writing About Andrew Yang. By Ben Smith / NYT
Joy Reid Takes Tucker Carlson’s ‘Race Lady’ Dog Whistle, Throws It Back At ‘Tuckums.’ By Lee Moran / HuffPost
As schools expand racial equity work, conservatives see a new threat in critical race theory. By Laura Meckler and Hannah Natanson / Wash Post
Child Protective Services Investigates Half of all Black Children in California. By Julia Lurie / Mother Jones
Erica Chidi Is Helping Black Women Understand Their Bodies In A Broken Health Care System. By Clare Fallon / HuffPost
The First Africans in America. Black America’s Neglected Origin Stories. By Annette Gordon-Reed / The Atlantic
GOP State Lawmaker Slammed For Saying 3/5 Compromise Aimed To End Slavery. By Josephine Harvey / HuffPost
VMI votes to scrub Stonewall Jackson from buildings. By Ian Shapira / Wash Post
Freedom Riders marker in Fredericksburg, Va., tells the ‘untold story.’ By Rachel Hatzipanagos / Wash Post
There’s No Classics ‘Catastrophe’ at Howard University. By Brandon Hogan and Jacoby Adeshei Carter / NYT
How civil rights attorney Ben Crump forged his own path. By AP and NBC News
The GOP’s Black Friend Says America Is Not a Racist Country. By Nathalie Baptiste / Mother Jones
‘Radicalized’ GOP And ‘Twisted People’ On Fox News Called Out In Damning New Ad. By Lee Moran / HuffPost
The Fortune 500 now has two Black women CEOs. That’s actually an improvement. By Chauncey Alcorn /CNN
A ‘Record-Breaking Year’ For Gifts To HBCUs. By Liz Schlemmer / NPR
Deadly air pollutant ‘disproportionately and systematically’ harms Americans of color, study finds. By Juliet Eilperin and Darryl Fears / Wash Post
Town’s Statue Of Colonial Woman Who Killed Natives Sparks Debate. By Amelia Mason / NPR
Mitch McConnell sends letter to Education secretary demanding removal of the 1619 Project from federal grant programs. By Ryan Nobles / CNN
Some Statues Tell Lies. This One Tells the Truth. By Timothy Egan / NYT
The ‘Mississippi Plan’ to keep Blacks from voting in 1890: ‘We came here to exclude the Negro.’ By Ronald G. Shafer / Wash Post
Biden’s $1.8 trillion American Families Plan ramps up child care, student aid funding, and more. By Anna North and Ella Nilsen / Vox
FBI Opens Probe into Police Killing of Andrew Brown as Autopsy Confirms He Was Shot in Back of Head. By Democracy Now
