National News
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
Seven civil rights groups want a meeting with Joe Biden. The agenda: Appointing Black officials in top roles, not lower-ranking ones. By Annie Linskey and Matt Viser / Wash Post
Louisville police ‘no-knock’ warrants mostly targeted Black residents. By Matt Mencarini, Darcy Costello and Tessa Duvall / Louisville Courier Journal and USA Today
When Covid-19 closed schools, Black, Hispanic and poor kids took biggest hit in math, reading. By Erin Einhorn / NBC News
Bill that could help Black farmers reclaim millions of acres ‘a step in the right direction.’ By Mariya Mosely / ABC News
Pennsylvania Supreme Court hears arguments in Bill Cosby appeal. By CBS News
1918 Germany Has a Warning for America. Donald Trump’s “Stop the Steal” campaign recalls one of the most disastrous political lies of the 20th century. By Jochen Bittner / NYT
Reckoning with slavery: What a revolt’s archives tell us about who owns the past. By Marjoleine Kars / The Conversation
