National
Senate passes bill to protect same-sex and interracial marriage in landmark vote. By Ali Zaslav and Ted Barrett / CNN
FBI and DHS failing to address threat of domestic terrorism, according to new Senate report. By Areeba Shah / Salon
Across the US, Native Americans are fighting to preserve sacred land. By Alejandra Molina and Emily McFarland Miller / NCR
US justice department sues city of Jackson over water crisis. By Erum Salam / The Guardian
There’s A Mental Health Crisis Among Black Students. What Are HBCUs Doing To Help? By Glyniss Wiggins / HuffPost
Veterans Affairs has denied benefits to Black people at higher rates for years, lawsuit alleges.
Antisemitism’s March Into the Mainstream. By Michelle Goldberg / NYT
How to be one church in divisive times. By Charles C. Camosy / RNS
LeRoy Woodson’s Black Church. By E. James West / AAIHS
The Supreme Court’s Obsession with Whitewashed History. By Rann Miller / The Progressive Magazine
Florida city reckoning with its past as paved over Black cemeteries uncovered. By Scott Pelly / CBS News
New clinic planned where enslaved women were tortured in medical experiments. By Sydney Page / Wash Post
Morehouse College class will teach Black history in the metaverse. By Claretta Bellamy / NBC News
Trump hosts Kanye West, Nick Fuentes at Mar-a-Lago dinner. By William Steakin and Olivia Rubin / ABC News
New wave of Hispanic lawmakers to hit House. By Rafael Bernal / The Hill
Keith Ellison’s Narrow Victory. By William P. Jones / Dissent Magazine
Black voters in Louisiana ‘embarrassed’ by state’s failure to pass anti-slavery amendment. By Curtis Bunn / NBC News
Oldest historically black LCMS church in Mississippi destroyed by arson. By Cheryl Magness / Catholic Reporter
Elon Musk Belittles Black Twitter and His Black Employees. By Keith Reed / The Root
Former surgeon general faces his wife’s cancer — and the ‘Trump Effect.’ By Manuel Roig-Franzia / Wash Post
Villages’ for the aging coming to more Black communities. By Myah Overstreet / Wash Post
Disparities in advanced math and science skills begin by kindergarten. By Paul L. Morgan / Salon
What does healing look like to survivors of the US Indian boarding school system? By Emily McFarlan Miller / RNS
The Many Complex Layers of the Monument to Crazy Horse. By Ross Douthat / NYT
Mike Pompeo Boldly and Insanely Claims Teachers’ Union Leader Is “the Most Dangerous Person in the World”—Ahead of Kim Jong Un. By Bess Levin / Vanity Fair
Warnock’s Lead Over Walker Widens in New Georgia Runoff Poll. By Susan Milligan / US News
Hakeem Jeffries: Will Nancy Pelosi’s successor in House Democratic leadership make nice with progressives? By Alexander Sammon / Slate
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer makes historic pick for Michigan Supreme Court vacancy. By Craig Mauger / The Detroit News
Rayshard Brooks shooting: Atlanta will pay $1M to family of man killed by police. By Becky Sullivan / NPR
VMI’s first Black superintendent under attack by conservative White alumni. By Ian Shapira / Wash Post
