National
In wake of abortion scandal, Herschel Walker attends closed-door prayer event. By Jack Jenkins / RNS
United Methodists’ Native American International Caucus calls for end to Columbus Day. By Emily McFarlan Miller / Religion News Service
How Supreme Court Diversity Has Shaped American Life. By Amber Phillips / Wash Post
Richard Wright’s Legacy of Exposing Racial Violence Honored on Anniversary of Elaine Massacre in Arkansas. By Amy Goodman / Democracy Now
Supreme Court holds investiture ceremony for Ketanji Brown Jackson. By Lawrence Hurley / NBC News
The top issues Latino voters are worried about in the 2022 midterms. By Christian Paz / Vox
Alabama’s high-stakes Supreme Court fight over racial gerrymandering in Merrill v. Milligan. By Ian Millhiser / Vox
Hurricane Ian: Fort Myers Black residents suffering amid devastation. By Nada Hassanein / USA Today
Why aren’t flagship universities enrolling more Black students from their state? By Meredith Kolodner / NBC News
Michael Flynn, Trump and America’s Christian nationalism threat. By Bradley Onishi / NBC News
How “religious freedom” became a right-wing assault on equality and the rule of law. By Paul Rosenberg / Salon
Survey: Confederate memorials still divide Americans and religion is a big predictor. By Yonat Shimron / RNS
‘Sisters in the Wilderness’ after 30 years: Resiliency and survival as the legacy of womanist theology. By LaRyssa D. Herrington / NCR
Can Liberal Evanston, Illinois, Atone for Its Racist Past? By Kari Lydersen / The New Republic
Native Americans’ decades long struggle for control over sacred lands is making progress. By Rosalyn R. Lapier / The Conversation
The CIA honors Underground Railroad hero Harriet Tubman as model spy with new statue. By Dan De Luce / NBC News
My great-grandparents died in the Holocaust and were almost forgotten. By Zoe Zolbrod / Salon
Just how racist is the MAGA movement? This survey measures it. By Jenifer Rubin / Wash Post
Ex-Texas police officer acquitted of murder in fatal shooting of man at gas station. By Tim Stelloh / NBC News
Trump’s potential 2024 plans hit complication in NY fraud lawsuit. By David Jackson / USA Today
GOP strategy elevates clashes over crime, race in midterm battlegrounds. By Annie Linskey and Colby Itkowitz / Wash Post
Mississippi Welfare Scandal Spreads Well Beyond Brett Favre. By Neil MacFarquhar / NYT
Once nicknamed “Murderapolis,” the city that made itself the center of the “Defund the Police” movement is grappling with heightened violent crime. By Bob Kuznia / CNN
Following A Forbes Investigation, Florida A&M Students Sue Florida Over $1.3 Billion In Underfunding. By Hank Tucker / Forbes
The Cherokee Nation is renewing its push for a nonvoting delegate in Congress. By Joe Hernandez / NPR
The American right’s future involves waging a ‘religious battle’ against the left, leaders say at a conservative conference. By Allan Smith / NBC News
Trump’s Embrace of QAnon Realizes the Dream of the Religious Right. By Chris Lehmann / The Nation
Historians call DeSantis’ views on American slavery “ignorance”. By Meghan Ellis / Alternet
The forgotten history of what California stole from Black families. by Caitlin Yoshiko Kandil / The Guardian
The Missing Black Women in Denmark Vesey’s Conspiracy. By Karen Cook Bell / AAIHS
