National
A viral video forced a wealthy Texas suburb to confront racism. A ‘silent majority’ fought back. By Mike Hixenbaugh / NBC News
Trump’s ‘1776 Commission’ tried to rewrite U.S. history. Biden had other ideas. By Robyn Autry/ NBC News
New data shows both a hopeful and worrying portrait of race in America. By Henry Olsen / Wash Post
The Jamaican connection. By Robert Samuels / Wash Post
New Program Aims To Bring More Civil Rights Lawyers To The South. By Carrie Johnson / NPR
A Disproportionate Share of COVID-19 Vaccines Are Going to White People. By Madison Pauly / Mother Jones
Raphael Warnock and the Solitude of the Black Senator. By Theodore R. Johnson / NYT
Lincoln Knew in 1838 What 2021 Would Bring. By Bret Stephens / NYT
Enslaved Black craftsmen helped build the U.S. Capitol that a mob fueled by racist rhetoric stormed. By Felicia A. Bell / Wash Post
Trump Administration’s ‘1776 Report’ Justifies Slavery, Three-Fifths Compromise. By Sarah Ruiz-Grossman / HuffPost
When Medicare Helped Kill Jim Crow. By Mike Konczal / The Nation
Before ‘I Have a Dream,’ Martin Luther King Almost Died. This Man Saved Him. By Michael Wilson / NYT
Joe Biden delivers one of the best inaugural addresses in memory. By Jennifer Rubin / Wash Post
Black Americans Have Seen White Terrorists Rampage Before. By Rochelle Riley / The Undefeated
Pentagon probes extremism in U.S. military as thousands of troops guard D.C. after Capitol riot. By Kevin Breuninger and Amanda Macias / CNBC
Republican Senator Apologizes to Black Constituents for Challenging Electoral Vote. By Lauren Camera / US News
Jaime Harrison is Biden’s pick for Democratic National Committee chair. By Alex Seitz-Wald / NBC News
How Stacey Abrams has been mobilizing Asian Americans for years. By Kimmy Yam / NBC News
Black Americans are getting vaccinated at lower rates than white Americans. By Hannah Recht and Lauren Weber / NBC News
The Coronavirus Is Erasing Minority Women from the Workforce. By Diane Coyle / NYT
Tom Vilsack’s nomination as agriculture secretary reopens old wounds for Black farmers. By Laura Reiley / Wash Post
Lincoln’s first inauguration met with threats of kidnapping, killing and militias. By Michael E. Ruane / Wash Post
Virginia holiday commemorating Confederate generals won’t be celebrated in 2021, for the first time in over 100 years. By Li Cohen / CBS News
Reconstruction lessons for Trump: Dealing with Confederate treason was more complicated than you’d think. By Rebecca Onion / Slate
Joe Biden’s Looming War on White Supremacy. By Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic
Georgia election: high Black voter turnout was due to years of activist efforts. By Sam Levine / The Guardian
