National 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
Sacred Apache land ‘on death row’ in standoff with foreign mining titans. By Christine Romo, Cynthia McFadden, Kit Ramgopal and Rich Schapiro / NBC News
Passed Over 3 Times by the Marines, a Black Colonel Is Being Promoted to General. By Helene Cooper / NYT
Democrats Need H.R. 1 and the New VRA to Protect Voting Rights. By Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic
Meet The Voting Rights Heavy-Hitters That Biden Has Picked To Lead DOJ. By Tierney Sneed / TPM
New US envoy to UN gets red carpet welcome from Russia. By Edith M. Lederer. By AP and ABC News
Not One Republican Asked Deb Haaland About Her Vision For Indian Country. By Chris D’Angelo / HuffPost
TIAA is the first company in Fortune 500 history to have two Black CEOs in a row. By Jena McGregor / Wash Post
Black women feel outsize burden from the Covid-19 economy, survey finds. By Michelle Fox and Sharon Epperson / NBC News
College dropout donates $20 million to the historically Black university he couldn’t afford 60 years ago. By Morgan Winsor/ABCNews
How Black people in the 19th century used photography as a tool for social change. By Samantha Hill / The Conversation
Photos: A look back at the courageous Harlem Hellfighters of WWI. By Radhika Chalasani and Indira Babic / ABC News
At William & Mary, a school for free and enslaved Black children is rediscovered. By Joe Heim / Wash Post
