National
A Reminder That Two Southern States Still Celebrate Robert E. Lee’s Birthday on MLK Day. By Molly Olmstead / Slate
Steve King rallies with support from the far-right. By Luke Barnes / ThinkProgress
Abrams and Gillum are likely 2020 kingmakers. By Marc Caputo and Daniel Strauss / Politico
To Get To College, It Helps Black Students To Have A Black Teacher Early On. By Mayowa Aina / NPR
Florida Pardons the Groveland Four, 70 Years After Jim Crow-Era Rape Case. By Jacey Fortin / NYT
Two Native women in Congress isn’t enough to end the systemic violence Native girls face. By Michelle Chen / NBC News
Why a Revoked Civil Rights Award for Angela Davis Is Causing an Uproar in Alabama. By Molly Olmstead / Slate
‘I Love My Skin!’ Why Black Parents Are Turning to Afrocentric Schools. By Eliza Shapiro / NYT
“Get Out”: Black Families Harassed in Their Own Homes. By Rahima Nasa and Rachel Glickhouse / ProPublica
Women of Color Service Workers Take Their Cause to the Ballot Box, and Win. By Simon Davis-Cohen / The Progressive
White right? How demographics is changing US politics. By Monica Duffy Toft / The Conversation
Trump wants to dismantle decades of discrimination protections. By Zack Ford / Thinkprogress
With Major Elections Bill, House Dems Get Ball Rolling On Fixing Voting Rights Act. By Tierney Sneed / Talkingpointsmemo
A Database Showed Far-Right Terror on the Rise. Then Trump Defunded It. By Emily Atkin / The New Republic
Trump’s Shutdown Will Hit Black Americans The Hardest. By Angela Simms and Shamus Khan / HuffPost
In Texas, 17 new judges bring ‘Black Girl Magic’ to courthouses. By Deanna Paul / Wash Post
As Demographics Shift, Kids’ Books Stay Stubbornly White. By Elizabeth Blair / NPR
Texas Will Finally Teach That Slavery Was Main Cause of the Civil War. By Jason Daley / Smithsonian Magazine
The US is much less inclusive than it was two years ago. Here’s why. By Harmeet Kaur / CNN
Shutdown Leaves Food, Medicine and Pay in Doubt in Indian Country. By Mitch Smith and Julie Turkewitz / NYT
Changes may be ahead for criticized Georgia election system. By Associated Press
More Than A Million Florida Felons Aren’t Sure Yet Whether They Can Register To Vote. By Daniel Rivero / NPR
‘What Obama had, he has that’: Rep. Hakeem Jeffries’ stock rises as Pelosi successor. By Heather Caygle, Rachael Bade and John Bresnahan / Politico
House Dem majority welcomes first black female floor director. by Nolan McCaskill / Politico
House Democrats to push for more diversity in top corporate ranks. By Zachary Warmbrodt / Politico
Across America, racist and sexist monuments give way to a new future. By Rebecca Solnit / The Guardian
The Most Successful Ethnic Group in the U.S. May Surprise You. By Molly Fosco / Ozy
She Stood Up to Cuomo. Soon She’ll Be the First Woman to Lead the N.Y. Senate. By Vivian Wang / NYT
Senate Republicans, follow Tim Scott’s lead. Reject judges with records tainted by racism. By Nan Aron / USA Today
‘I Feel Invisible’: Native Students Languish in Public Schools. By Erica L. Green and Annie Waldman / NYT
