National
Colleges confront their links to slavery and wrestle with how to atone for past sins. Calvin Schermerhorn / The Conversation
Johnson & Johnson vaccine deepens concerns over racial and geographic inequities. By Isaac Stanley-Becker / Wash Post
Vernon Jordan, civil rights leader and presidential confidant, dies at 85. By Judy Woodruff / PBS
Sacred Apache land ‘on death row’ in standoff with foreign mining titans. By Christine Romo, Cynthia McFadden, Kit Ramgopal and Rich Schapiro / NBC News
Passed Over 3 Times by the Marines, a Black Colonel Is Being Promoted to General. By Helene Cooper / NYT
Democrats Need H.R. 1 and the New VRA to Protect Voting Rights. By Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic
Meet The Voting Rights Heavy-Hitters That Biden Has Picked To Lead DOJ. By Tierney Sneed / TPM
New US envoy to UN gets red carpet welcome from Russia. By Edith M. Lederer. By AP and ABC News
Not One Republican Asked Deb Haaland About Her Vision For Indian Country. By Chris D’Angelo / HuffPost
TIAA is the first company in Fortune 500 history to have two Black CEOs in a row. By Jena McGregor / Wash Post
Black women feel outsize burden from the Covid-19 economy, survey finds. By Michelle Fox and Sharon Epperson / NBC News
College dropout donates $20 million to the historically Black university he couldn’t afford 60 years ago. By Morgan Winsor/ABCNews
How Black people in the 19th century used photography as a tool for social change. By Samantha Hill / The Conversation
Photos: A look back at the courageous Harlem Hellfighters of WWI. By Radhika Chalasani and Indira Babic / ABC News
At William & Mary, a school for free and enslaved Black children is rediscovered. By Joe Heim / Wash Post
Slavery In The U.S.: The Ignored History Of A Railroad To Mexico To Seek Freedom. By John Burnett / NPR
The Cherokee Nation acknowledges that descendants of people once enslaved by the tribe should also qualify as Cherokee. By Harmeet Kaur / CNN
America’s first post-World War II race riot led to the near-lynching of Thurgood Marshall. By Chris Lamb / Wash Post
Black Americans reconnect with roots in emotional trips to Ghana’s ‘Door of No Return. ‘By Candace Smith, Aude Soichet, Jessica Hopper, Ashley Riegle, and Marlene Lenthang / ABC News
The Incalculable Debt That America Owes Black People. By Bruce Bartlett / The New Republic
Clarence Thomas promotes Donald Trump’s big lie about voter fraud. By Mark Joseph Stern / Slate
Evangelical Leaders Raise Alarms About Christian Nationalism In Their Ranks. By Sarah McCammon / NPR
People Over 75 Are First in Line to Be Vaccinated Against COVID-19. The Average Black Person Here Doesn’t Live That Long. By Wendi C. Thomas and Hannah Grabenstein / ProPublica
Lawsuit calls out alleged co-conspirators in Arbery murder. Chief among them: Georgia cops. By Lauren Floyd / Daily Kos
For Black Families, Evictions Are Still At A Crisis Point — Despite Moratorium. By Pam Fessler / NPR
Virginia Senate votes to make racism a public health crisis. What now? By Bill Atkinson / The Progress-Index
New York City and the Persistence of the Atlantic Slave Trade. By Gerald Horne / The Nation
She sued her enslaver for reparations and won. Her descendants never knew. By Sydney Trent / Wash Post
Historic number of Confederate statues were removed in 2020. By N’dea Yancey-Bragg / USA Today
Black Americans Have Long Led the Global Battle Against White Supremacy. By Benjamin Talton / AAIHS
