National
He Became the Nation’s Ninth Vice President. She Was His Enslaved Wife. By Shadowblot1 / The Daily Kos
How the Underground Railroad Got Its Name. By Scott Shane / NYT
7 state flags still have designs with ties to the Confederacy. By Gillian Brockell / Wash Post
The story of Emmett Till is the story of America. By Robert P. Jones / RNS
Bayard Rustin Challenged Progressive Orthodoxies. By James Kirchick / NYT
PragerU’s Confederate classroom propaganda: Co-opting history to prop up modern insurrectionists. By Amanda Marcotte / Salon
Dignified Silence Doesn’t Work Against Trump. By Charles M. Blow / NYT
Jacksonville begins funerals for Black victims of racist attack at Dollar General. By The AP and NBC News
Police fatally shot a pregnant Black woman in Ohio. The calls for accountability are growing. By Li Zhou / Vox
Affirmative action wars hit the workplace: Conservatives target ‘woke’ DEI programs. By Jessica Guynn / USA Today
California school district offers unique Korean American studies class. By Brahmjot Kaur / NBC News
The Sierra Club hired its first Black leader. Turmoil over racial equity followed. By Maxine Joselow / Wash Post
Dr. Corey D. B. Walker Appointed Dean of the School of Divinity at Wake Forest University. By Arrman Kyaw / Diverse Issues in Higher Ed
The search for a church that isn’t a church. By Rachel Martin / NPR
We need a truce in our wars over religion. Here’s a glimmer of hope. By E.J. Dionne Jr. / Wash Post
DeSantis banned some Black history classes. These churches fought back. By Deborah Barfield Berry / USA Today
Georgia descendants of enslaved people face losing decades-old land protections. By The AP and NBC News
The Tulsa race massacre’s ‘public nuisance’ is an ongoing injustice. By Jasmine M. Green / Wash Post
A Montana Man Has The Oldest DNA Native To America, And It Changes What We Know About Our Ancestors. By ken Macdonald / Maternity Verse
Alabama Cherishes Its History of Defying the Federal Courts. By David Firestone / NYT
Democracy’s Assassins Always Have Accomplices. By Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt / NYT
Ex-Leader of Proud Boys Sentenced to 22 Years in Jan. 6 Sedition Case. By Alan Feuer / NYT
A 2024 Trump-Biden Rematch Isn’t Boring. It’s Something Entirely New. By Paul Blumenthal / HuffPost
Federal Court Throws Out Alabama Republicans’ Racist Congressional Map. By Tori Otten / The New Republic
Former White House aide wins crowded Democratic primary in Rhode Island special election. By Alex Seitz-Wald / NBC News
America needs the Men of Morehouse. By Truth Jackson / Maroon Tiger
Military Academies Retain Affirmative Action in Admissions. By Lois Elfman / Diverse Issues in Higher Ed
The Voter ID Battle Returns to North Carolina. By Brandon Tensley / Capital B
Elon Musk and the Idea that Jews Are to Blame for Anti-Semitism. By Yair Rosenberg / The Atlantic
The Lord’s Supper Is a Multiethnic Love Feast. By Jamaal E. Williams and Timothy Paul Jones / Christianity Today
