National
Columbia Will Make Direct Payments to Jewish Employees. Not All of Them Are Happy About It. By Sonel Cutler / Chronicle of Higher Ed.
Judge Halts White House Effort to Defund Schools With D.E.I. Programs. By Dana Goldstein / NYT
Oklahoma to begin controversial test to weed out ‘woke’ teacher applicants today. By Sunlen Serfaty / CNN
Trump killed affirmative action. His base might not like what comes next. By Noel King and Gabrielle Berbey / Vox
Pete Hegseth’s Pastor Wants ‘Spiritual Warfare’ Waged On All. By Josh Kovensky / TPM
100 days of Pope Leo XIV: An early test for the first American pontiff. By Claire Giangravé / RNS
Hundreds of Catholic sisters walk Atlanta streets to pray for social, environmental justice. By Fiona Murphy / NCR
A new reading of Sherman’s march shows how enslaved people sought to free themselves. By Adria R. Walker / The Guardian
At Alabama plantation, families of enslavers and enslaved strike a deal. By Emmanuel Felton / Wash Post
North Carolina Confederate Monument Goes Too Far, Lawsuit Says. By Audra D. S. Burch / NYT
As civil rights books are pulled from school shelves, one Alabama town is refusing to forget its story. By Annabel Grossman / Independent
A History of National Guard Deployments in Heavily Black U.S. Cities. By Brandon Tensley / Capital B
Black mayors and leaders decry Trump’s threats to deploy National Guard in cities. By Curtis Bunn / NBC News
Trump Keeps Targeting Black Folks, and the Reason Why is Staring Us In The Face. By Lawrence Ware / The Root
Newsom says California to draw congressional maps to ‘END TRUMP PRESIDENCY.’ By Oren Oppenheim / ABC News
The Supreme Court May Be About To Deal A Final Blow To The Voting Rights Act. By Paul Blumenthal / HuffPost
American Nazis: The Aryan Freedom Network is riding high in Trump era. By Aram Roston / USA Today
Over 60,000 Are in Immigration Detention, a Modern High, Records Show. By Chris Cameron and Hamed Aleaziz / NYT
Trump’s Assault on Universities Isn’t Just About Education. By Perry Bacon / TNR
At Colleges, Diversity Training Is Out. Dialogue Workshops Are In. By Aisha Baiocchi / The Chronicle of Higher Ed
West Point and Air Force Academy Affirmative Action Lawsuits Are Dropped. By Vimal Patel / NYT
Black spirituality is what the world needs now. By Daryl Grigsby / Black Catholic Messenger
With new Vatican ambassador, Trump sends culture-war message to American Catholics. By Katherine Kelaidis / RNS
Why Evangelicals Couldn’t Care Less About Trump’s Epstein Scandal. By Rob Schenck / Mother Jones
How Much Do These Pastors Gross Preaching The Gospel? By Ahsan Washington / Black Enterprise
Trump Against History. By The New Republic
This Week in ‘Nation’ History: The Broken Promise of ‘Brown v. Board of Ed.,’ Sixty Years Later. By Katrina Vanden Heuvel / The Nation
What Federal Control of D.C. Police Could Mean for Overpolicing in Black Communities. By Christina Carrega / Capital B
Let Voters, Not Politicians, Decide Elections. By Jeffrey A. Mandell / The Progressive Magazine
Justice Dept. Subpoenas Office of Letitia James, Who Sued Trump for Fraud. By Jonah E. Bromwich, Devlin Barrett, Glenn Thrush and Santul Nerkar / NYT
