National
Abigail Oduol seized the moment to organize for anti-racism in her workplace. By Kathryn Post / RNS
RFK Jr’s Unhinged Antisemitism Is No Surprise. By Jeffrey Salkin / RNS
At ‘ground zero’ for slavery, a new museum helps rewrite history. By Edward Ball / Wash Post
My Life in the Aftermath of Martin Luther King’s Assassination. By Clarence B. Jones and Stuart Connelly / The New Yorker
What America Loses Without Jesse Jackson’s Voice. By Janell Ross / Time
‘Gut-level Hatred’ Is Consuming Our Political Life. By Thomas B. Edsall / NYT
Public Universities That Accept More Than 50% Of Students Who Apply. Shaun Harper / Forbes
Florida is hurting as it becomes ‘where empathy, decency and kindness go to die. By Adam Nichols / Raw Story
Tim Scott is the longshot candidate raising the most cash. By Jessica Piper / Politico
Jesse Jackson to step down as head of Rainbow PUSH civil rights organization. By AP and NPR
Mississippi discriminates against Black residents with appointed judges, Justice Department says. By Emily Wagster Pettus / AP News
Tennessee Arrests Klan Leader on Same Day It Honors 1st Grand Wizard. By Michael Daly / Yahoo News
More Mothers Are Dying. It Doesn’t Have to Be This Way. By Veronica Gillspie-Bell / NYT
Robert Smith’s Latest Deal Just Made Him $4.6 Billion Richer. By Jasmine Browley / Essence
How Confederate migration spread white supremacy in the West. By Todd A. Price / USA Today
This 93-year-old Hilton Head woman is in a legal battle for land her family has owned since the Civil War. By Nicquel Terry Ellis / CNN
The little-known publisher who tutored Hubert Humphrey about racism. By Samuel G. Freedman / Andscape
GOP state attorneys general shift affirmative action battle lines to the workplace. By Wyatte Grantham-Phillips and Geoff Mulvhill / PBS
How the myth of a ‘model minority’ works to divide Americans. By Theodore R. Johnson / Wash Post
The Next Battle Over Colorblindness Has Begun. By Sonya B. Starr / NYT
This Is One Republican Strategy That Isn’t Paying Off. By Thomas B. Edsall / NYT
Top donors, souring on DeSantis, start looking at Tim Scott. By Sally Goldenberg and Natalie Allison / Politico
Tommy Tuberville, a US Senator in 2023, Has Only Just Come Around to the Idea That White Supremacists Are Racist. By Caleb Ecarma / Vanity Fair
Biden’s pick to lead Joint Chiefs tangles with GOP at Senate hearing. By Dan Lamothe / Wash Post
Black men are at an increased risk for melanoma, study finds. By Claretta Bellamy / NBC News
For too many Christians, the lines between dominionism, nationalism and fascism are blurred. By Karen Swallow Prior / RNS
Mormon leaders – whose church is often associated with the GOP – push back against one-party politics. By David Campbell / The Convesation
Why We Shouldn’t Lose Faith in Organized Religion. By Tish Harrison Warren / NYT
America’s back-and-forth struggle toward equality continues. By Jim Jones / The Hill
The West’s water system is grappling with a racist past and hotter future. By Lauren Sommer / NPR
