Leid Stories - 04.26.21

1.  What is your sense of where we are, and where we're headed, as a nation?

 

2.  President Biden has won high praise and gratitude over the weekend for publicly validating that the mass killings of more than a million Armenians by Ottoman Turks during World War I was a "genocide."

Would he say the same of European nations' prolonged campaigns of ethnic cleansing all over the world? Or, U.S. military campaigns against indigenous peoples to take their lands and expand empire?

 

3.  The fatal April 20 police shooting of 16-year-old Ma'Khia Bryant in Columbus, Ohio, is being investigated. But pieces of the tragedy made public are telling a story the Black community must reckon with.