National
For Black and Latino gun owners, being armed “evens the playing field.” By Grace Baek / CBS News
How Big Tobacco made menthol racial. By Mary Elizabeth Williams / Salon
Atlanta, long known as the seat of Black economic and political power, votes on its future in mayoral election. By Tim Craig and Vanessa Williams / Wash Post
Derek Chauvin jurors speak out for first time about George Floyd’s murder. By Ray Sanchez / CNN
Kids were fighting in school. Dads began patrolling campus, and the violence stopped. By Sydney Page / Wash Post
Facing Up to the Racist Legacy of America’s Immigration Laws. By Reece Jones / NYT
How the Attica prison uprising started — and why it still resonates today. By Dave Davies / NPR
Torpedoing Black Radicalism: The Case of Hugh Mulzac. By Tony Pecinovsky / AAIHS
“If Black Women Were Free”: An Oral History of the Combahee River Collective. By Marian Jones / The Nation
Debate over teaching books by Black authors has roots in violent 1974 clash in West Virginia. By Sarah Posner / Wash Post
Yes, anti-lynching laws are mostly symbolic. That’s what makes them important. By Theodore R. Johnson / Wash Post
Glenn Youngkin Reaches for the Dogwhistle in the Election’s Final Week. By Timothy Noah / TNR
1 in 4 Jews in the U.S. experienced antisemitism in the last year, report says. By Joe Hernandez / NPR
Judicial inquiry begins looking into Eric Garner’s death at hands of NYPD. ByKiara Alfonseca andAaron Katersky /ABC News
White House builds bridges with one of Black community’s most powerful groups. By Eugene Daniels / Politico
Latina economic expert, in new Treasury role, foster racial equity. By Nicole Acevedo / NBC News
Economic toll of COVID pandemic hits Black and Latino households hard. By Laurel Wamsley / NPR
Howard University students protest mold, rodents in campus dorms. By Maya Eaglin and Deon J. Hampton / NBC News
A 19th-Century Law Dismantled The KKK. Now It Could Bring Down A New Generation Of Extremists. By Lyz Lenz / HuffPost
Nearly 100 Confederate Monuments Were Toppled Last Year. What Happened to Them? By Melissa Lyttle / Mother Jones
A White mob dragged a Black man from a Maryland jail in 1887. Now a memorial will mark the lynching. By Michael E. Ruane / Wash Post
Claudette Colvin was arrested in 1955 for refusing to give up her seat on a bus. Now she’s fighting to get her record expunged. By Devon M. Sayers / CNN
Black men in ‘Groveland Four’ case may get rape convictions, indictments dismissed. By Kiara Alfonseca / ABC News
A California Law School Reckons With the Shame of Native Massacres. By Thomas Fuller / NYT
White evangelicals dealing with racial issues and faith. By Justin Sherman / CBS News
One Mississippi Capital, Two Worlds. By Stephan Bisaha / NPR
Utah school district allowed ‘serious and widespread racial harassment,’ Justice Dept. finds. By Laura Meckler / Wash Post
Justice Dept. launches new effort to target discriminatory lending among banks. By David Nakamura / Wash Post
A ballot initiative on reforming the police after George Floyd’s death is tearing Minneapolis apart. By Holly Bailey / Wash Post
Boarding School Scrubs Nikole Hannah-Jones Speech Over Backlash Fears. By Nina Golgowski / HuffPost
