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Open carry by Black self-defense groups predates Black Panthers. By Javonte Anderson / USA Today
The 1619 Project and the Long Battle Over U.S. History. By Jake Silverstein / NYT
In School Board Races, Opposing Critical Race Theory Wasn’t A Knockout Winner. By Liz Skalka / HuffPost
Welch Won By Widest Margin In History; Black Voters A Vital Force In True Multicultural Victory. By Gypsy Gelardo / The Power Broker
Atlanta mayor’s race results: Moore advances to runoff, Dickens ahead of Reed. By Wilbom P. Nobles III and J.D. Capelouto / AJC
The Federal Reserve is overwhelmingly White. Biden is being pushed to appoint Black members to its board. By Joe Davidson / Wash Post
Census Bureau’s first Latinx director Robert Santos confirmed by the Senate. By Hansi Lo Wang / NPR
Colin Powell funeral: President, military leaders to honor trailblazer. By Joey Garrison / USA Today
In the nation’s communities of color, ‘loss on top of loss on top of loss.’ And that was true even before covid arrived. By Akilah Johnson / Wash Post
Prosecutors Say Ahmaud Arbery Was Killed On White Defendants’ False ‘Assumptions.’ By Phillip Jackson / HuffPost
How Police Justify Killing Drivers: ‘The Car Was a Weapon.’ By Kim Barker, Steve Eder, David D. Kirkpatrick and Arya Sundaram / NYT
California Tries to Close the Gap in Math, but Sets Off a Backlash. By Jacey Fortin / NYT
In North Carolina, a new Civil War memorial honors Black Union soldiers. By Kevin Maurer / WashPost
This tribe helped the Pilgrims survive for their first Thanksgiving. They still regret it 400 years later. By Dana Hedgpeth / Wash Post
How Thousands of Black Farmers Were Forced Off Their Land. By Kali Holloway / The Nation
Virginia is not the nation: Across the U.S., diverse candidates became mayors of major cities. By Mark Sumner / Daily Kos
‘Defund the Police’ Plan Rejected in Minneapolis as Buffalo Voters Revolt Against Socialist. By Justin Klawans / Newsweek
Poll shows Herschel Walker far ahead in Georgia Senate primary. By Natalie Allison / Politico
Inside Biden’s Hardline Approach to End Redlining. By Robert Davis / The Progressive
‘Patriot Purge’: Tucker Carlson’s Sinister New Documentary. By Anne Applebaum / The Atlantic
Love And Blood Quantum. By Kat Chow / NPR
Racial segregation is costing the US billions of dollars a year. By Alicia Wallace / CNN
Wisconsin leads nation in imprisonment rates of Black people. By Deon J. Hampton / NBC News
‘Growing awareness’: Schools focus new policies on equity with students back in school. By Safia Samee Ali / NBC News
A university town explores reparations for a Black community uprooted by urban renewal. By Diane Bernard / Wash Post
The Life of H. Rap Brown aka Jamil Al-Amin. By Rembert Browne / Time
Sian Proctor, the first African American woman to pilot a spacecraft: ‘The reality is that solving for space solves for Earth.’ By KK Ottesen / Wash Post
American Psychological Association apologizes for contributing to systemic racism. By Nicole Chavez / CNN
Black Caucus emerges as winner in spending package. By Marty Johnson / The Hill
In a setback for Black Lives Matter, mayoral campaigns shift to ‘law and order.’ By Tim Craig / Wash Post
