National News
Mass Incarceration and the Metaphor of Slavery. By Shannon King / AAIHS
Rep. Clyburn wants to make ‘Lift Every Voice and Sing’ a national hymn. By Randi Richardson / NBC News
The Thoroughly Respectable Capitol Rioters. By Adam Serwer / The Atlantic
America in 2021: Racial Progress in the South, a White Mob in the Capitol. By Astead W. Herndon / NYT
Unredacted FBI Document Sheds New Light on White Supremiacist Infiltration of Law Enforcement. By Alice Speri / The Intercept
A Black senator from Georgia. By Clyde McGrady / Wash Post
Mortality rate for Black babies is cut dramatically when they’re delivered by Black doctors, researchers say. By Tonya Russell / Wash Post
I Desegregated the University of Georgia. History Is Still in the Making. By Charlayne Hunter-Gault / NYT
Preserving New York’s Ties to the Underground Railroad. By John Freeman Gill / NYT
Democrat Jon Ossoff Has Defeated Republican David Perdue, Giving Democrats A Stunning Sweep Across Georgia’s Senate Races. By Ryan Brooks / BuzzFeed News
The other Georgia slugfest: A Brian Kemp-Stacey Abrams rematch. By Andrew Desiderio / Politico
A leading historian of U.S. democracy issues an urgent warning. By Greg Sargent / Wash Post
DOJ asks White House if it can undo some civil rights protections. By Paul LeBlanc / CNN
White American Wealth Hits Record High on Pandemic Stocks Surge. By Alexandre Tanzi / Bloomberg Wealth
We Are the ‘Exonerated 5.’ What Happened to Us Isn’t Past, It’s Present. By Yusef Salaam, Kevin Richardson and Raymond Santana / NYT
2021’s call to Reconstruction. By E. J. Dionne Jr. / Wash Post
Raphael Warnock’s Win Is One for the History Books. By Astead W. Herndon / NYT
The Southern state where Black voters are gaining in numbers, but not power. By Renuka Rayasam / Politico
2020: The Year Black Voters Said, ‘Hold Up.’ By Teresa Wiltz / Politico
After Five Centuries, a Native American With Real Power. By Timothy Egan / NYT
How COVID-19 Hollowed Out a Generation of Young Black Men. By Akilah Johnson and Nina Martin / ProPublica
Beyond crisis funding: Black-led organizations that saw a surge in donations look for lasting impact. By Julianne McShane / NBC News
How a courageous Southern governor broke ranks with segregationists in 1961. By John Drescher / Wash Post
New Native American memorial offers peace in the heart of one of the city’s few wild spaces. By Philip Kennicott / Wash Post
1st Chinese American lawyer gets Columbia Law honor, highlights past barriers. By Kimmy Yam / NBC News
Don’t ‘better explain’ the Emancipation Memorial. Put up monuments to Black people instead. By Karen Attiah / Wash Post
