National News
Civil rights groups lay out priorities for Biden’s Justice Department. By Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico
Rashida Jones named next president of MSNBC. By Ahiza Garcia-Hodge / NBC News
President of Morehouse School of Medicine has life-and-death message for Black people about the coronavirus vaccine. By Lonnae O’Neal / The Undefeated
How remote learning is making educational inequities worse. By Hernan Galperin and Stephen Aguilar / The Conversation
Latinos get small slice of funding pie for minority colleges and universities. By Suzanne Gamboa / NBC News
Federal Investigators Join Probe Into Casey Goodson Shooting Death. By Brakkton Booker / NPR
The History of Seneca Falls You Didn’t Learn in School. By Olivia B. Waxman and video by Arpita Aneja / Time
New stamps honor Japanese American vets, Chinese American physicist. By Saloni Gajjar / NBC News
Southern history textbooks: A long history of deception. By Brian Lynn / Montgomery Advertiser
VMI removes statue of Confederate Gen. Stonewall Jackson after long resistance. By Ian Shapiro / Wash Post
Reviving a Crop and an African-American Culture, Stalk by Stalk. By Kim Severson and Photographs by Rinne Allen / NYT
Inside the cottage industry trying to revive Aunt Jemima and other brands with racist roots. By Beth Kowitt / Fortune
President Barack Obama Talks to Jesmyn Ward About A Promised Land / Vanity Fair
Biden’s New Top Economist Has a Longtime Focus on Workers. By Jim Tankersley and Jeanna Smialek / NYT
Bryan Stevenson Wins “Alternative Nobel”: We Must Overturn This Horrific Era of Mass Incarceration. By Amy Goodman / Democracy Now
Race, Violence, and Resistance in Puerto Rico. By Don S. Polite Jr. / AAIHS
Grand Master Jay, founder of all-Black armed activist group, faces federal charge after FBI says he aimed a rifle at officers. By Amir Vera and Rebekah Riess / CNN
Racial disparities create obstacles for Covid-19 vaccine rollout. By Alicia Victoria Lozano / NBC News
Brandon Bernard Is Scheduled To Be Executed. 5 Jurors Who Sentenced Him Don’t Think He Should Die. By Jessica Schulberg / HuffPost
Facebook to start policing anti-Black hate speech more aggressively than anti-White comments, documents show. By Elizabeth Dwoskin, Nitasha Tiku and Heather Kelly / Wash Post
Democrats Push ‘Abolition Amendment’ To Fully Erase Slavery From U.S. Constitution. By Brakkton Booker / NPR
Indian Country Has Entered a Devastating New Phase of the Pandemic. By Delilah Friedler / Mother Jones
Montgomery Bus Boycott: The WPC and Black women’s leadership today. By Safiya Charles / Montogomery Advertiser
Four police officers shot Amadou Diallo 19 times. A new photography project names them. By Geoff Edgers / Wash Post
As Supreme Court reconsiders Jim Crow-era split juries, past cases could earn new trials. By Erik Ortiz / NBC News
In neighboring Georgia counties, election revealed a growing divide that mirrors the nation. By Haisten Willis and Griff Witte / Wash Post
