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(Win McNamee / Getty Images) Georgia made history this week: The state elected a Black Senator on Tuesday for the first time ever. The Rev. Raphael Warnock, a Morehouse graduate who serves as senior pastor of the storied Ebenezer Baptist Church once pastored by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., will be representing Georgia in the Senate as soon as the results are certified. Along with the win of his fellow Georgian Jon Ossoff, the Senate will effectively be in Democratic hands, as will the House and the presidency. Sadly, a different kind of history was also made this week, when an angry, viol...

December 18, 2020 A nurse displays the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine at a Veterans Affairs long-term care facility on December 17, 2020 in Vancouver, Washington. (Nathan Howard / Getty Images) President-elect Joe Biden has made history: This week, he announced that Representative Deb Haaland would be his pick for head of the Interior Department, the first Native American person ever to hold a cabinet-level position, which would make Biden’s cabinet the most diverse in history. This kind of representation is important, but it’s not enough, because far from Washington, Native Americans are dying ...

December 11, 2020 A health care worker walks through a protective barrier in the Covid-19 ward at United Memorial Medical Center in Houston, Tex., on December 4, 2020. (Mark Felix / AFP via Getty Images) Defund. That one word has motivated thousands across the country to take to the streets this year to end police violence against Black Americans, and it has also become the punching bag for some Democratic politicians to explain their electoral misfortunes this cycle. But that word, defund, also explains why the United States surpassed 3,000 deaths from Covid-19 in a single day for the first...