National News
‘Most Important Indian,’ And Treaty Rights Advocate Hank Adams Dies At 77. By Jaclyn Diaz / NPR
What Was Christmas Like for America’s Enslaved People? By Ferrell Evans / History
Black workers face two of the most lethal preexisting conditions for coronavirus—racism and economic inequality. By Elise Gould and Valerie Wilson / Economic Policy Institute
What a new map tells us about the election. By Jamelle Bouie / NYT
D.C.’s Black churches will remain a ‘beacon of light.’ By Toella Pliakas / Wash Post
Indian Americans Take Pride In Kamala, But Democrats Must Not Take Them For Granted. By Marina Fang / HuffPost
Biden To Name Miguel Cardona As Education Secretary. By Elissa Nadworny / NPR
Cori Bush marched on the streets in Ferguson. Now she’s about to take her seat in Congress. By Jada Yuan / Wash Post
The Fall of Michael Tubbs. By David Siders / Politico
50,000 Black Americans Have Died of COVID-19. By Patrick Peck / The Atlantic
Air Force report finds Black service members more often investigated, punished. By Lolita C. Baldor / Associated Press and PBS
Virginia Judge Won’t Try Black Man In Courtroom With White Portraits. By Matthew Barakat / HuffPost
Barbara Johns’ statue will replace that of Robert E. Lee in the US Capitol. By leah Asmelash / CNN
The Kansas City Star’ Apologizes For Past Racist Coverage. Wants Others To ‘Get The Poison Out.’ By Brakkton Booker / NPR
Five Kwanzaa Celebrations Around the Country. By Nicole Taylor / NYT
Georgia Pastors See Attack on Black Church in Campaign Against Warnock. By Rick Rojas / NYT
Ossoff makes closing pitch to rural Black voters. By Maya King / Politico
Black candidates can win in swing districts. By Jacob Smith / The Conversation
Kamala Harris prepares for her historic vice presidency by studying Joe Biden’s legacy. By Dan Merica and Jasmine Wright / CNN
Deb Haaland: Biden’s Pick To Be 1st Native American Cabinet Secretary. By Nathan Rott / NPR
2020: The year America confronted racism. By Nicole Chavez / CNN
Vaccinating Black Americans Is Essential. Key States Aren’t Doing the Work to Combat Hesitancy. By Caroline Chen, et al. / Propublica
Newly released video shows police didn’t immediately help Ahmaud Arbery as he lay dying. By Bert Roughton and Hannah Knowles / Wash Post
Chicago police must account for their degrading treatment of Anjanette Young. The Editorial Board / Wash Post
Schools, caught by pandemic and confronting systemic racism, jettison testing for admissions. By Laura Meckler and Hannah Natanson / Wash Post
Researcher Timnit Gebru Says Google Wanted ‘My Presence, But Not Me Exactly.’ By Bobby Allyn / NPR
