National
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
The world of the Black Panthers Photos. By Stephen Shames / ABC News
The 150-Year Prosecution of White Supremacy. By Melissa Gira Grant / The New Republic
Voting rights: More than 100 bills that would restrict voting are moving through state legislatures. By Kelly Mena / CNN
Using an Anti-Klan Law Against Trump’s Clan. By Charles M. Blow / NYT
Merrick Garland vows to fight discrimination, domestic extremism as attorney general. By Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill
Asian American lawmakers call for a hearing on anti-Asian racism. By Li Zhou / Vox
Confronting the history of housing discrimination: “It’s just a remarkable record of exclusion.” By CBS This Morning
He was locked up at age 15. Almost seven decades later, he’s reentering an unfamiliar world. By Karen Heller / Wash Post
U.S. life expectancy has fallen by a full year due to COVID-19, and 2.7 years for Black Americans. Hunter for Daily Kos
From Covid aid to record donations: Influx of funding helps keep HBCUs’ doors open. By Curtis Bunn / NBC News
Mars rover Perseverance: NASA diversity catches viewers’ attention. By Elinor Aspegren / USA Today
