National
In latest ‘gOD-Talk’ discussion, Black millennials discuss hip-hop and faith. By Religion News Service
World’s Richest Negro Girl’ inspired media ridicule, fascination, alarm. By Sudney Trent / Wash Post
How Black washerwomen in the South became pioneers of American labor. By Kim Kelly / Wash Post
The First A.P. African American Studies Class Is Coming This Fall. By Anemona Hartocollis / NYT
Fight over future of library that sparked civil rights ideas. By Travis Loller / AP and ABC News
Mississippi’s Dry Run for Eco-Apartheid. By Kate Aronoff / The New Republic
More than 40% of Americans think civil war likely within a decade | US politics. By Martin Pengelly / The Guardian
Biden to give prime-time speech about ‘soul of the nation’ as voters prepare to cast midterm ballots. By Mike Memoli / NBC News
Abrams, Georgia Dems call midterms ‘unfinished business.’ By Bill Barrow and Jeff Amy / AP and ABC News
Los Angeles Is Creating a Model for Fighting Mass Incarceration. By Mark Engler and Paul Engler / Dissent
Mississippi’s largest city in water crisis as treatment plant fails. By Emmanuel Felton and Bryan Pietsch / Wash Post
In St. Louis, doulas push for better reproductive health care — especially for Black patients. By Gabrielle Hays / PBS
Black Historians, Race, and the Historical Profession. By Hettie Williams / AAIHS
Panel says West Point, Naval Academy should scrub Confederate names. By Julia Mueller / The Hill
Counties with more slaves in 1860 have higher gun ownership rates today, study finds. By Matthew Rozsa / Salon
Race, Welfare Reform, and the Push for Family Values. By Trumaine Mitchell / AAIHS
A Tiny House in Manhattan Has a Link to the Underground Railroad. By Juhn Freeman Gill / NYT
Fear of Fascism. By Tom Nichols / The Atlantic
In fiery midterm speech, Biden says GOP’s turned toward ‘semi-fascism.’ By Matt Viser / Wash Post
Biden’s loan forgiveness plan to heavily impact Black borrowers. By Kiara Alfonseca / ABC News
Black Americans feel disproportionate pain from high interest rates. By Cheyanne M. Daniels and Sylvan Lane / The Hill
School segregation affects more than a third of U.S. students. Here’s why. Marc Ramirez / USA Today
The Culture War Is Chasing Teachers Away, Leaving Kids Shortchanged. By Nathalie Baptiste / HuffPost
Affirmative Action Was Banned at Two Top Universities. They Say They Need It. By Steohanie Saul / NYT
Who is Maxwell Frost, the Gen Z Democratic nominee in Florida? By David Weigel and Lon Rozsa / Wash Post
Black voter turnout has declined in Wisconsin. Democrats see reversing that trend as key to Senate victory.
Walmart must pay Black man $4.4 million in racial profiling case. By Khristopher J. Brooks / CBS News
White Christian Nationalism, Out in the Open. By Annika Brockschmidt and Thomas Lecaque / The Bulwark
White evangelicals buried by conservative for abandoning ‘human decency’ to support Trump. By Tom Boggioni / AlterNet
The Rising Influence of the New Apostolic Reformation. By Elle Hardy / TNR
