Your weekend long reads🗞️

Good morning, friends of The Short List! Well, we're just one week from Christmas.🎄 If you're behind in your gift buying, don't panic. Here's the latest info on shipping deadlines, plus 46 last-minute gift ideas that don't need any shipping.🎁 If you're doing some holiday baking, Google's list of each state's favorite Christmas cookie🍪 is burning up the Interwebs.

This week, Paste BN concluded its "Seven Days of 1961," a series on Americans who stood up to racism and changed history. Throughout that tumultuous year, activists risked their lives to fight for voting rights and the integration of schools, businesses, public transit and libraries. We hope you will explore the final installments of the series here.

• 1,500 Black college students challenged police in 1961. The Supreme Court took their side.
• ‘You don’t know who is going to die next’: Civil rights era heroes are dying, leaving rich legacies
• Laws aimed at voter suppression are ‘the worst’ since Jim Crow. How Black voter trends could be impacted.
• Timeline: US leaders have pledged to eradicate racism time and again. They keep falling short.
• Our extensive coverage of the civil rights movement in 1961 leaned on these resources. You should, too.

There are more great reads below. We wish you a joyous holiday season and a wonderful 2022.🌟