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Getting Vaccinated While Black. By Jimmie Briggs / Vanity Fair
A Black Army Rises to Fight the Racist Right. By Graeme Wood / The Atlantic
The Interior Department Is Finally Getting Serious About Missing, Murdered Native Americans. By Ryan Grenoble / HuffPost
How Black Mississippians found their power during Jackson’s water emergency. By Frances Madeson / Daily Kos
Minority Entrepreneurs Struggled to Get Small-Business Relief Loans. By Stacy Cowley / NYT
Why Brown University students say it’s time for the school to offer reparations. By Randi Richardson / NBC News
How Chicago’s affordable housing system perpetuates city’s long history of segregation. By Safia Samee Ali / NBC News
White mobs rioted in Washington in 1848 to defend slaveholders’ rights after 76 Black enslaved people staged an unsuccessful mass escape on a boat. By Michael David Cohen / The Conversation
Nathan Bedford Forrest Day Still Observed In TN After Leg Stands Up For Slave Trader Again. By Matt Shuham / TPM
Why Paul Robeson’s Voice Still Rings True Today. By Tayo Aluko / The Progressive
Elderly Black Panther Has Been in Prison for Five Decades. By Natasha Lennard / The Intercept
Virginia Supreme Court clears the way for Charlottesville to take down statue of Robert E. Lee. By Gregory S. Schneider / Wash Post
Black Executives Call on Corporations to Fight Restrictive Voting Laws. By Andrew Ross Sorkin and David Gelles / NYT
Biden Names Diverse Nominees for the Federal Bench. By Carl Hulse and Michael D. Shear / NYT
Asian Americans Report More Threats, Harassment During Pandemic. By Ying Liu / US News
One home, many generations: States addressing Covid risk among families. By April Simpson, Susan Ferriss, Taylor Johnston and Pratheek Rebala / NBC News
North Carolina Case Tests State’s Commitment to Racial Justice. By Jacob Biba / The Intercept
In former Klan country, one Black woman decides she’s had enough. By Rebecca Tan / Wash Post
The Painful History of the Georgia Voting Law. By Jason Morgan Ward / NYT
Four Confederate statues once stood as Baltimore landmarks. Now their pedestals stand ready to send new messages. By Jonathan M. Pitts / Wash Post
How Native Americans were vaccinated against smallpox, then pushed off their land. By Dana Hedgpeth / Wash Post
Raised to identify as Black, Harris steps into role as a voice for Asian Americans amid rise in hate incidents. By David Nakamura / Wash Post
Researchers put a number to the lives lost due to Trump’s mishandling of the pandemic: 400,000. By Mark Summer / Daily Kos
Trump tried to defund DOJ peacemakers used to ‘repair race relations.’ By Kevin Johnson / USA Today
Pelosi Names D.C. National Guard Commander As New House Sergeant-At-Arms. By Barbara Sprunt / NPR
A Volunteer Army’s Mission: Vaccinate Black People in the Rural South. By Andrew Jacobs / NYT
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack says only 0.1 percent of Trump administration’s covid farm relief went to Black farmers. By Laura Reiley / Wash Post
Maryland to Pay Four Black Colleges $577 Million. By Douglas Belkin / WSJ
The Social Justice Purge at Idaho Colleges. By Michelle Goldberg / NYT
Evanston is the first U.S. city to issue slavery reparations. Experts say it’s a noble start. By Char Adams / NBC News
