National News
Every Boston mayor has been a white man. Will 2021 change that? By Stephanie Murray / Politico
There isn’t a single Black woman on House Dems’ leadership team. It’s not new. By Sarah Ferris and Heather Caygle / Politico
Black woman whose family was handcuffed at gunpoint by police sues Aurora, Colorado. By Doha Madani / NBC News
New Walgreens CEO Roz Brewer will be the only Black woman chief executive in Fortune 500. By Beth Kowitt and Claire Zillman / Fortune
What Julian Bond Taught Me About Politics and Power. By Jeanne Theoharis / AAIHS
US Senate has only had 11 Black senators in its 232-year history. By Faith Karimi / CNN
Lone Wolves Connected Online: A History of Modern White Supremacy. By Laura Smith / NYT
How enslaved Black people helped make Washington our nation’s capital. By Colbert I. King / Wash Post
Finally, a President Acknowledges White Supremacy. By Farhad Manjoo / NYT
With a new administration, activists hope for a focus on environmental racism. By Rachel Hatzipanagos / Wash Post
DNC’s Jaime Harrison Wants To Build ‘Next Generation’ Of Democratic Leaders. By Avie Schneider / NPR
State Department Resumes Diversity Trainings Suspended Under Trump. By Akbar Shahid Ahmed / HuffPost
Lloyd Austin Confirmed As Defense Secretary, Becomes 1st Black Pentagon Chief. By Brakkton Booker / NPR
Breonna Taylor grand jurors among petitioners seeking to impeach Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron. By Alec Snyder and Rebekah Riess / CNN
A viral video forced a wealthy Texas suburb to confront racism. A ‘silent majority’ fought back. By Mike Hixenbaugh / NBC News
Trump’s ‘1776 Commission’ tried to rewrite U.S. history. Biden had other ideas. By Robyn Autry/ NBC News
New data shows both a hopeful and worrying portrait of race in America. By Henry Olsen / Wash Post
The Jamaican connection. By Robert Samuels / Wash Post
New Program Aims To Bring More Civil Rights Lawyers To The South. By Carrie Johnson / NPR
A Disproportionate Share of COVID-19 Vaccines Are Going to White People. By Madison Pauly / Mother Jones
Raphael Warnock and the Solitude of the Black Senator. By Theodore R. Johnson / NYT
Lincoln Knew in 1838 What 2021 Would Bring. By Bret Stephens / NYT
Enslaved Black craftsmen helped build the U.S. Capitol that a mob fueled by racist rhetoric stormed. By Felicia A. Bell / Wash Post
Trump Administration’s ‘1776 Report’ Justifies Slavery, Three-Fifths Compromise. By Sarah Ruiz-Grossman / HuffPost
When Medicare Helped Kill Jim Crow. By Mike Konczal / The Nation
Before ‘I Have a Dream,’ Martin Luther King Almost Died. This Man Saved Him. By Michael Wilson / NYT
