National
Biden administration asks Supreme Court to decline Harvard affirmative action case. By Reuters and NBC News
How Black and Hispanic renters experience housing discrimination in cities across the US. By Jerusalem Demsas / Vox
NYPD reports 361 percent increase in anti-Asian hate crimes since last year. By Kimmy Yam / NBC News
Eric Adams Returns From Ghana, His Spirit Cleansed and To-Do List Full. By Katie Gluek / NYT
Without access to charging stations, Black and Hispanic communities may be left behind in the era of electric vehicles. By will Englund / Wash Post
Jussie Smollett Found Guilty of Reporting a Fake Hate Crime. By Julia Jacobs and Mark Guarino / NYT
Facebook has a new problem: Black people are deleting it. By Jessica Guynn and Katie Wedell / USA Today
Meet the student bringing Black illustrations to the medical field. By Char Adams / NBC News
DOJ sues Texas over voting rights for Black and Latino voters. By Kevin Johnson / USA Today
Critical Race Theory in Texas. By Jennifer Hobson Gormer / AAIHS
Oklahoma Is The Deadliest State for Police Violence Against Black Americans. By Kavontae Smalls / Atlanta Black Star
Hundreds Of Black Women In Georgia Will Get $850 Per Month In Guaranteed Income. By Sarah Ruiz-Grossman / HuffPost
Stricken With Cancer, Mutulu Shakur Remains Behind Bars. By Natasha Lennaard / The Intercept
A Maine city that’s 90% White now has a Somali mayor. By Catherine E. Shoichet / CNN
Inspired by the social justice movement, Black entrepreneurship rises. By Curtis Bunn / NBC News
Homicide is a leading cause of death in pregnant people, a new study finds. Black women are at greatest risk. By Cecilia Nowell / Wash Post
A Black couple says an appraiser lowballed them. So, they ‘whitewashed’ their home and say the value shot up. By Jonathan Edwards / WashPost
‘Terrifying’ Nashville statue of Confederate Nathan Bedford Forrest is removed. By Gillian Brockell / WashPost
‘All Hope Was Lost’: A Sustainable Black Georgia Community Seized, Destroyed to Make Way for UGA Dorms, Now Descendants Are Demanding Reparations. By Finurah Contributor / Atlanta Black Star
The Justice Department closes its investigation into the lynching of Emmett Till. By AP and NPR
He Is Black. The Victims Were White. ‘It’s an Allegation as Old as America. By Margaret Renkl / NYT
Black Radicalism and the Right to Bail. By Tony Pecinovsky /AAIHS
In Chicago, Mass Migration is Shifting Black Power. By Shia Kapos, Juan Perez Jr. Renuka Rayasam and Ming Li / Politico
The Ongoing Toll of Segregation. By Richard D. Kahlenberg / TNR
City polls find views on treatment over race vary between Black, white. By David Paleologos / USA Today
New report reveals the deep-rooted racism plaguing U.S. military academies. By Meaghan Ellis /Alternet
Member of ‘Jena Six’ speaks out on race and the justice system 15 years later. By Abby Cruz and Kiara Alfonseca / ABC News
‘Spirit of resistance’: Marking 500 years since the first slave revolt in the Americas. By Kynala Phillips / NBC News
Nevada governor apologizes for state’s past role in Indigenous schools. By AP and NPR
Descendants of Marcus Garvey press Biden for posthumous pardon. By DeNeen L. Brown
