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Black History Month: Why we celebrate it in February. By Scott Neuman / NPR
COVID death data hides true toll on Black, Hispanic, Indigenous people. By Betsy Ladyzhets, Shaena Montanari, and Rachel Monahan / USA Today
Wendell Pierce on bringing a Black Willy Loman to life, making “Death of a Salesman” relevant today. By D. Watkins
Do We Have the History of Native Americans Backward? By David Trever / The New Yorker
George Floyd Killing: Ex-Officer Lane Gets Three Years In Prison. By Madeline Halpert / Forbes
Texas’s latest democratic backslide is of Biblical proportions. By Karen Attiah / Wash Post
Researchers Did a Deep Dive Into Efforts to Restrict Critical Race Theory. Here’s What They Found. By Sylvia Goodman / Chronicle of Higher Education
Why Jeremy Lin hopes for more than ‘the next Jeremy Lin or Yao Ming.’ By Max Gao / NBC News
A sacrament of love: Black Catholic reflections on the life and legacy of bell hooks. By LaRyssa D. Herrington / NCR
Angela Davis, Charlene Mitchell, and the NAARPR. By Tony Pecinovsky /
Lawsuit Seeking Reparations From 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Can Move Forward, Judge Says. By Nina Golgowski / HuffPost
House unanimously passes Asian American and Pacific Islander museum bill. By Kimmy Yam / NBC News
The war on critical race theory in Virginia is really a war on critical thinking. By Karen Keys-Gamarra / Wash Post
Black educators reflect on teaching history amid critical race theory backlash. By Kiara Alfonseca / GMA
In ‘This Here Flesh,’ Cole Arthur Riley finds the sacred in humanity. By Kathryn Post / Religion News
How Loretta Lynch Found Herself, And The NFL, On The Wrong Side Of History. By Stephen A. Crockett Jr. / HuffPost
Cervical cancer kills Black women at a disproportionately higher rate than whites. By Alana Wise / NPR
On Route 66, a family is restoring the only gas station built for Black travelers. By Kristi Eaton / Fast Company
New documentary highlights plight of missing Black women and why their cases go ignored. By Amna Nawaz and Talesha Reynolds / PBS
Republicans, once hesitant to back Herschel Walker, rally to support football star and Senate candidate. By Eugene Scott / Wash Post
Kyle Rittenhouse and the New Era of Political Violence. By Charles Homans / NYT Magazine
Charlottesville ‘Unite the Right’ trial set to begin four years after rally. By Ben Kesslen / NBC News
Emily’s List Selects Laphonza Butler, First Woman Of Color, To Lead Organization. By Deepa Shivram / NPR
Queen Elizabeth supports Black Lives Matter movement, says aide. By Jack Guy / CNN
The legacy of Joe Louis’ loss to Max Schmeling on Juneteenth. By Ben Wyatt / The Guardian
Trump’s COVID response was deadly — but decades of dreadful, racist policy set up the catastrophe. By Igor Derysh / Salon
