National
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
Maryland Governor Issues Blanket Pardon For Lynching Victims. By Dominique Mosbergen / HuffPost
National Geographic faced up to its racist past. Did it actually get more diverse or inclusive? By Anna North and Kainaz Amaria / Vox
The Stealth Sticker Campaign to Expose New York’s History of Slavery. By Julianne McShane / NYT
The Ridiculously Racist History of Menthol Cigarettes. By Kali Holloway / The Daily Beast
The space filled by Al Sharpton’s prayers and politics. By Robin Givhan / Wash Post
Despite business warnings, GOP moves ahead with voting bills. By Acacia Coronado and Bill Barrow / ABC News
Attorney General Merrick Garland cites domestic terrorism and civil rights in defending budget to House lawmakers. By Christina Carrega, Chandelis Duster and Jessica Schneider / CNN
Asian-American Business Leaders Fund Effort to Fight Discrimination. By Andrew Ross Sorkin and Edmund Lee / NYT
Justice Clarence Thomas, Long Silent, Has Turned Talkative. By Adam Liptak / NYT
Help, We Can’t Stop Writing About Andrew Yang. By Ben Smith / NYT
Joy Reid Takes Tucker Carlson’s ‘Race Lady’ Dog Whistle, Throws It Back At ‘Tuckums.’ By Lee Moran / HuffPost
As schools expand racial equity work, conservatives see a new threat in critical race theory. By Laura Meckler and Hannah Natanson / Wash Post
Child Protective Services Investigates Half of all Black Children in California. By Julia Lurie / Mother Jones
Erica Chidi Is Helping Black Women Understand Their Bodies In A Broken Health Care System. By Clare Fallon / HuffPost
The First Africans in America. Black America’s Neglected Origin Stories. By Annette Gordon-Reed / The Atlantic
GOP State Lawmaker Slammed For Saying 3/5 Compromise Aimed To End Slavery. By Josephine Harvey / HuffPost
VMI votes to scrub Stonewall Jackson from buildings. By Ian Shapira / Wash Post
Freedom Riders marker in Fredericksburg, Va., tells the ‘untold story.’ By Rachel Hatzipanagos / Wash Post
There’s No Classics ‘Catastrophe’ at Howard University. By Brandon Hogan and Jacoby Adeshei Carter / NYT
How civil rights attorney Ben Crump forged his own path. By AP and NBC News
The GOP’s Black Friend Says America Is Not a Racist Country. By Nathalie Baptiste / Mother Jones
‘Radicalized’ GOP And ‘Twisted People’ On Fox News Called Out In Damning New Ad. By Lee Moran / HuffPost
The Fortune 500 now has two Black women CEOs. That’s actually an improvement. By Chauncey Alcorn /CNN
A ‘Record-Breaking Year’ For Gifts To HBCUs. By Liz Schlemmer / NPR
Deadly air pollutant ‘disproportionately and systematically’ harms Americans of color, study finds. By Juliet Eilperin and Darryl Fears / Wash Post
