1,500 Black college students challenged police in 1961.To protect and serve their own: Secrets of police failures before abused woman's murder are revealed.‘Fabulous’ Lena Richard: In Jim Crow times, a Black woman chef from New Orleans built a food empire.Important stories of the past week, from USA TODAY and other news sources. But first: Race and justice news we are reading I’d like to welcome you to this week’s "This Is America," a newsletter about race, identity and how they shape our lives. My name is Christine Fernando, and I'm a News Now reporter at USA TODAY, where I report breaking and trending news, as well as stories focusing on race and communities of color. Seeing their joy as they run up to a Santa who is part of their community, who sings our Sri Lankan songs and eats our food at our Christmas table, is always the best part of the holidays.
In a world where white is always the default, our Santa defies this status quo and gives the children in our community a rare opportunity to see a Santa that looks like them. And then, when the day comes, we fish a bright red Santa suit out of storage and hand it to an uncle, who transforms into our Sri Lankan Santa before the kids scramble to the tree. I spend hours a day writing Christmas cards. Our family hosts the annual Christmas party for our local Sri Lankan American community. But the Santa at my house looks a bit different. Every year at Christmastime, we’re greeted by the same image: a lily-white, bearded man in a red suit.
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