National
‘Foot soldiers’ of Birmingham to BLM: ‘Keep on keeping on.’ By Jay Reeves / AP and ABC News
Former RNC Chair Agrees GOP Is One Of The World’s Largest Anti-Democracy Forces. By Mary Papenfuss / HuffPost
Voting Rights Bill Creeps Closer To The Senate Floor, But Now Comes The Hard Part For Dems. By Tierney Sneed / TPM
Texas GOP Passes Bill To Stop Teachers From Talking About Racism. By Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost
Prosecutor to seek hate-crime charges against White man accused in Atlanta-area spa killings. By Hannah Knowles and Haisten Willis / Wash Post
Rush of Arkansas executions that included Ledell Lee’s comes under renewed scrutiny. By Erik Ortiz / NBC News
America is having a Black Renaissance. We should learn from it. By Perry Bacon Jr. / Wash Post
Bloomberg Gives $150 Million to Help Universities Diversify STEM Doctorates. By Azi Paybarah / NYT
Suicide Among Black Girls Is a Hidden Mental Health Crisis. By Kyra Aurelia Alessandrini / Time
This New Coalition Wants To Close The Opportunity Gap For Black-Owned Startups. By Brianne Garrett / Forbes
We saddled up to make sure Native Americans got to vote. By Allie Young / CNN
You Must Work or Die: The Long History of “Worker Shortages.” By Jan Schwarz / The Intercept
The Fight to Preserve Greenwood. By Caleb Gayle / The Atlantic
Why Does the Myth of the Confederate Lost Cause Persist? By Clint Smith / The Atlantic
What slavery reparations from the federal government could look like. By P.R. Lockhart / NBC News
Race and White Supremacy in American Policing: An Investigation. By Steve Volk / Rolling Stone
Black voting rights and voter suppression: A timeline. By Brandon Tensley / CNN
We speak about Asian Americans as a single block. Here’s how incredibly complex they are. By Nicole Chavez and Priya Krishnakumar / CNN
Federal Grand Jury Indicts 4 Ex-Police Officers Involved In George Floyd Death. By Amy Forliti and Mike Balsamo / HuffPost
Ahead of Supreme Court’s decision on split juries, New Orleans DA tackles ‘Jim Crow office.’ By Erik Ortiz / NBC News
Congress faces the gut-wrenching facts of the Black maternal mortality crisis. By Julia Craven / Slate
Keisha Lance Bottoms Won’t Seek Second Term as Atlanta Mayor. By Richard Fausset / NYT
EMILY’s List Bets On Cheri Beasley As North Carolina’s First Black Senator. By Kevin Robillard / HuffPost
San Francisco To Redirect $3.75 Million From Law Enforcement To Black Business. By Sarah Ruiz-Grossman / HuffPost
There’s Never Been A Good Argument Against D.C. Statehood. By Travis Waldron and Paul Blumenthal / HuffPost
LSU picks new leader, naming system’s first Black president. By AP and NBC News
Blinken’s battle to make State Department more diverse will face steep resistance, diplomats of color say. By Nicole Gaouette / CNN
Court Overturns Fraud Conviction of Corrine Brown, Ex-U.S. Representative. By Neil Vigdor / NYT
Black Americans And The Racist Architecture Of Homeownership. By Ailsa Chang, Christopher Intagliata and Jonaki Mehta / NPR
How Systemic Racism Continues To Determine Black Health And Wealth In Chicago. By Terry Gross / NPR
