National
The College-Admissions Merit Myth. By Adam Harris / The Atlantic
Democrats are losing Latino voters as Republicans eye opportunities at midterms. By Kai McNamee / NPR
Slavery Is on the November Ballot in Five States. By Christina Carrega / Capital B
A Group of Former Trump Aides Is Behind Racist and False Anti-Immigrant Ads. By Isabela Dias / Mother Jones
Alabama Senate: Peter Riehm could beat Vivian Figures in Mobile, flipping a Black Democratic seat MAGA. By Molly Olmstead / Slate
Black Republicans are ‘no longer hiding’ as they run for Congress. By Eugene Scott / Wash Post
Why Clarence Thomas Gave A Temporary Reprieve to Lindsay Graham From A Federal Subpoena Over Alleged Election Interference. By Jamila Bey / BET
How Black Landowners in the South Are Recovering Lost Generational Wealth. By Cameron Oglesby / The Nation
Kanye West’s antisemitic conspiracy theories and white supremacist rhetoric continues. What is he doing? Aja Romano / Vox
Deconstruction or reconstruction? Pastors discuss a reboot of evangelicalism. By Bob Smietana / Religion News
Why religious piety tells us nothing good (or bad) about politicians. By Paul Waldman / Wash Post
Why White evangelicals won’t recoil against the worst MAGA pols. By Jenifer Rubin / Wash Post
The Transatlantic Slave Trade. By Equal Justice Initiative
Exhumations to resume in a bid to identify Tulsa Race Massacre victims. By AP and NPR
Why I Keep Coming Back to Reconstruction. By Jamelle Bouie / NYT
‘I Dream A World’ celebrates the timeless, urgent vision of Black Women. By Lonnae O’Neal / Andscape
Their America Is Vanishing. Like Trump, They Insist They Were Cheated. By Michael H. Keller and David D. Kirkpatrick / NYT
Does campus diversity justify affirmative action? Our study says yes. By Adam Chilton, Justin Driver , Jonathan Masur and Kyle Rozema / Wash Post
Deidre DeJear Runs for Governor in Iowa. By Aaliyah Wright / Capital B
Oprah seeks to lend her appeal to Abrams in Georgia election. By AP and NBC News
After Mississippi’s water crisis, the EPA has launched an investigation. By AP and NPR
Where $30 Billion to Fix Systemic Racism Actually Goes. By Emily Flitter / NYT
Whites now more likely to die from covid than Blacks: Why the pandemic shifted. By Akilah Johnson and Dan Keating / Wash Post
America has a Black sperm donor shortage. Black women are paying the price. By Amber Ferguson / NYT
A push in Congress to help Black WW II vets who didn’t benefit from the GI Bill. By Guil Lawrence / NPR
HBCU bomb threats drive frustration. No FBI word on arrests. Tiffany Cusaac-Smith and Francesca Chambers / USA Today
The Political Gospel of Raphael Warnock. By Benjamin Wallace-Wells / The New Yorker
America’s religious divide isn’t really about religion. By E.J. Dionne Jr. / Wash Post
Theological pandemic: Why evangelicals embraced Jan. 6 and the Big Lie. By Nathaniel Manderson / Salon
A slaveholding senator, an 1879 wedding and a Black family’s mystery. By Julie Zauzmer Weil / Wash Post
