National News
Biden’s vaccine push runs into distrust in the Black community. By Cleve R. Wootson Jr. and Frances Stead Sellers / Wash Post
This Organization Fights For Black Girls Targeted By Overpolicing And School Pushout. By Kimberley Richards / HuffPost
He joined the Freedom Rides of the ’60s for what he thought would be a weekend. It turned out to be two years. By Rachel Hatzipanagos / Wash Post
Renowned as a Black liberator, Harriet Tubman was also a brilliant spy. By DeNeen L. Brown / Wash Post
Texas and the Racist Machinery of Death. By Jordan Smith / The Intercept
You probably haven’t heard of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson. That’s going to change. By Ruth Marcus / Wash Post
Alabama university removes Wallace name from building. By AP and ABC News.
How Enslaved People Found A Pathway to Self-discovery. By Tyler Perry / AAIHS
Prince Hall, American Revolutionary. By Danielle Allen / The Atlantic
The Value of the Federal Writers’ Project Slave Narratives. By Clint Smith / The Atlantic
The complex history of Alexander Twilight, Middlebury’s first Black graduate. By Marina Affo / USA Today
The hidden story of when two Black college students were tarred and feathered. By Karen Sieber / The Conversation
Anna Deavere Smith on Forging Black Identity in 1968. By Anna Deavere Smith / The Atlantic
The Unfulfilled Promise of Julian Bond. By Gene Seymour / The New Republic
Why a shootout between Black Panthers and law enforcement 50 years ago matters today. By Paul Ringel / The Conversation
Fighting school segregation didn’t take place just in the South. By Ashley Farmer / The Conversation
Republicans advance more than 100 bills that would restrict voting in wake of Trump’s defeat. By Jane O. Timm / NBC News
How Democrats Found Thousands Of New Voters And Flipped Georgia’s Senate Seats. By Emma Hurt / NPR
In Biden administration reversal, Justice Dept. drops discrimination suit against Yale. By Pete Williams / NBC News
Latino-owned businesses are seeing record growth. Big banks are still not funding them. By Brandon Gomez / NBC News
The Rise and Fall of Bitcoin Billionaire Arthur Hayes. By Adam Ciralsky / Vanity Fair
Black Doctors’ COVID Burden: Patients’ Social Ills and Workplace Bigotry | Healthiest Communities Health News. By Joseph P. Williams / U.S. News
Atlanta Falcons owner donating $17M to civil rights museum. By Associate Press and ABC News
How racial diversity can help the FBI solve its “privilege naiveté” problem. By Iveta Cherneva / Salon
How ‘Uncle Tom’ still impacts racial politics. By Cheryl Thompson / The Conversation
The Plan to Build a Capital for Black Capitalism. By Kelefa Sanneh / New Yorker
