National
Some Statues Tell Lies. This One Tells the Truth. By Timothy Egan / NYT
The ‘Mississippi Plan’ to keep Blacks from voting in 1890: ‘We came here to exclude the Negro.’ By Ronald G. Shafer / Wash Post
Biden’s $1.8 trillion American Families Plan ramps up child care, student aid funding, and more. By Anna North and Ella Nilsen / Vox
FBI Opens Probe into Police Killing of Andrew Brown as Autopsy Confirms He Was Shot in Back of Head. By Democracy Now
3 Indicted On Federal Hate Crime Charges In Ahmaud Arbery Death. By Ryan J. Reilly / HuffPost
Newark cops, with reform, didn’t fire a single shot in 2020. By Tom Moran /Star Ledger Editorial Board
Thanks to DeSantis’ fascist policies, civil-rights lawyers have their hands full in Florida. By Fabiola Santiago / Miami Herald
Republican-led legislatures push forward with efforts to restrict voting access. By Fredreka Schouten / CNN
Homeland Security Will Assess How It Identifies Extremism in Its Ranks. By Zolan Kanno-Youngs / NYT
Want to Fix the Racial Wealth Gap? Start By Canceling Student Debt. By Sabrina Calazans / The Nation
Her unlikely campaign for governor began at a gravesite in Virginia. By Petula Dvorak / Wash Post
‘Embarrassing Racist’: Native American Orgs Rip Santorum For Claiming There Was ‘Nothing’ Before Colonizers Arrived. By Cristina Cabrera /TPM
Young Black Residents Are Bearing the Brunt of Michigan’s Recent COVID-19 Surge. By Edwin Rios and Sinduja Rangarajan / Mother Jones
The Black Farmer Movement Battling History to Return to the Land. By Molly Schwartz / Mother Jones
Morehouse leaves debate tournament following anti-Black mockery. By Parker Owens / The Undefeated
’The Blinding of Isaac Woodard’: Black World War II veteran fueled civil rights movement. By DeNeen L. Brown / Wash Post/
Georgia park with giant Confederate carving proposes changes. By Sudhin Thanawala / AP and ABC News
Remembering Hubert Harrison, the Father of Harlem Radicalism. By Jeffrey B. Perry / AAIHS
Before Chauvin: decades of Minneapolis police violence that failed to spark reform. By Amudalat Ajasa and Lois Beckett / The Guardian
Senate passes anti-Asian American hate crime bill. By Nicholas Wu / Politico
Democrats fear GOP targeting racial justice protests. By Giulia Heyward / Politico
New probe confirms Trump officials blocked Puerto Rico from receiving hurricane aid. By Nicole Acevedo / NBC News
Kamala Harris cements her place in Biden’s inner circle during a consequential week. By Kevin Liptak and Jasmine Wright / CNN
House Democrats Pass Bill To Make D.C. The 51st State. By Barbara Sprunt / NPR
With Trump’s backing, Walker freezes Senate GOP field in Georgia. By Alex Rogers and Manu Raju / CNN
Troy Carter wins Louisiana special election in blow to progressives. By Ally Mutnick / Politico
Some Right-Wing Troops Find Themselves Targeted by Their Own War Machine. By Mike Giglio / The Intercept
Amid racial reckoning, National Park Service recognizes new Underground Railroad sites. By Michelle Stoddart / ABC News
The Forgotten Black Panthers. By Santi Elijah Holley / The Nation
Hollywood Is Leaving Money On The Table By Not Prioritizing Diversity, New Study Shows.By Marina Fang / HuffPost
