National News
Fauci: Covid-19 vaccine rollout must prioritize people of color. By Erin Snodgrass / Business Insider
Mitch McConnell Should Leave the History Lessons to Others. By Jamelle Bouie / NYT
What Ulysses Grant Can Teach Joe Biden About Putting Down Violent Insurrections. By Casey Mitchel / Politico
Emmett Till’s Chicago House Gets Landmark Status Amid Plans For Black Heritage Site. By Nina Golgowski / HuffPost
Cicely Tyson, an Actress Who Shattered Stereotypes, Dies at 96. By Robert D. McFadden / NYT
The Only Black Woman at the Helm of a Major Wellness Brand. By Kathleen Hou / New York Magazine
How Biden Is Erasing Trump’s White Supremacist Legacy. By Emily Peck / HuffPost
After Capitol riot, police chiefs work to root out officers with ties to extremist groups. By Kimberly Kindy, Mark Berman, and Kim Bellware / Wash Post
The D.C. Statehood Debate Is Coming, Like It or Not. By Osita Nwanevu / The New Republic
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
