National
Susan Lorincz: Prosecutor says there’s ‘insufficient evidence’ for murder charge against woman who shot her Black neighbor. By Shawn Nottingham and Zoe Sottile / CNN
The fight for Asian American studies in colleges gains ground. By Meena Venkataramanan / Wash Post
St. Louis Is the Struggling Downtown You Haven’t Heard Of — and Right-Wing Policies Are Making Things Worse. By Kevin McDermott / NYT
As the election cycle cranks up, Christians need to call out white Christian nationalism. By Kelly Brown Douglas and Bryan N. Massingale / RNS
Southern Baptists Want To Change Their Name, But Their Oppressive Legacy Will Remain. By Warren J. Blumenfeld / LGBTQ Nation
Unitarian Universalism revisits identity, values at 2023 gathering. By Kathryn Post / RNC
Slavery’s descendants: America’s family secret. By Reuters and NBC News
A Brief History of Affirmative Action and the Assault on Race-Conscious Admissions. By Wil Del Pilar / The Education Trust
Ron DeSantis is campaigning on his record. Judges keep saying it’s unconstitutional. By Steve Contorno / CNN
Black veterans are denied VA health benefits more often than white veterans, new data shows. By Courtney Kube / NBC News
Hispanics, Asians drove post-pandemic U.S. population growth, data shows. By Tara Bahrampour / Wash Post
To quell racism, tell more stories that welcome the stranger. By Joshua Seftel and Simran Jeet Singh / RNS
The Largest and Fastest Religious Shift in America Is Well Underway. By Jessica Grose / NYT
Antisemitic hate crimes’ rise seen firsthand at Rutgers, US colleges. By Deena Yellin / USA Today
Inside the Black church fighting for reparations from California. By Scott Wilson / Wash Post
Mother Mary Lange, founder of first African American religious congregation, declared venerable. By Hannah Brockhaus / CNA
How ex-Confederates spread racist attitudes far and wide after the Civil War. By Curtis Bunn / NBC News
In Charleston, a Museum Honors a Journey of Grief and Grace. By Holland Cotter / NYT
‘Let the world know’: elderly survivors of the Tulsa race massacre push for justice. By David Smith / The Guardian
Detroit, NAACP unveil MLK statue on 60th anniversary of “I Have a Dream” speech in Detroit. By Raymond Strickland / CBS News
Texas Gov. Abbott signs law shutting diversity offices at public universities. By Reuters and NBC News
Native American Families Broken Up Despite Federal Law Meant to Keep Them Together. By Jessica Lussenhop and Agnel Philip
William Spriggs Was the Economist Who Fought for the Entire Working Class. By John Nichols / The Nation
William Barber departs pulpit of Greenleaf Church with an ode to the power of disability. By Yonat Shimron / RNS
The sleeper legal strategy that could topple abortion bans. By Alice Miranda Ollstein / Politico
The country’s fastest-growing Christian movement helped fuel Trump’s rise—and is gearing up for spiritual battle. By Stephanie McCrummen / The Atlantic
Mehdi Hasan Shows What A Big Phony Ron DeSantis Is When It Comes To Jesus. By Ed Mazza / HuffPost
Florida still recognizes 3 Confederate holidays, but not Juneteenth. ByJake Stofan / Action News Jax
Rep. Cori Bush marks Juneteenth with push for reparations. By Nicole Killion / CBS News
Ketanji Brown Jackson’s ancestors were enslaved. Her husband’s were enslavers. By Sally H. Jacobs / Wash Post
