National
Republicans keep mostly mum on calls to make GOP ‘party of Christian nationalism.’ By Jack Jenkins / Religion News
The U.S. Needs a National Plan for Racial Justice. Ejim Dike / The Progressive
Lincoln’s midterms: The lessons of 1862, and how they may still apply. By Matthew Rozsa / Salon
When America Joined the Cult of the Confederacy. By Brent Staples / NYT
What Trump and Orbán want: It’s fascism — it’s not a metaphor or a joke. By Chauncey Devega / Salon
Welcome to Georgia, Where the Democrats’ Electoral Dreams Live or Die. By Kevin Lee / New Republic
Biden deserves kudos for diverse judges. But White men still dominate. By Jennifer Ruben / Wash Post
Democrat Mandela Barnes set to challenge GOP Wisconsin Sen. Johnson. By Sara Burnett and Scott Bauer / PBS
Two in Arbery Case Sentenced Again to Life in Prison; Third Man Gets 35 Years. By Richard Fausset / NYT
Family Of Anton Black, Who Died In Police Custody, Reaches $5 Million Partial Settlement. By Phillip Jackson / HuffPost
A grand jury declined to indict a woman whose accusations set off Emmett Till killing. By AP and NPR
American Sikhs are targets of bigotry, often due to cultural ignorance. By Simran Jeet Singh / The Conversation
A Latina professor who was denied tenure at Harvard is demanding a ‘revolution’ in academia. By Zachary Schermele / NBC News
Black, Native American and Latino families face serious problems from inflation. By Will Stone / NPR
Black Americans are now struggling with long Covid. By L’Oreal Thompson Payton / Fortune
The Christian Case for Reading Black Classics. By Patricia Raybon / Christianity Today
What Thomas Merton tells us about the Gospel’s logic vs. our society’s. By Daniel P. Horan / NCR
Utopia in Dark Times. By Victoria W. Wolcott / AAIHS
A Model for an Evangelical Christianity Committed to Justice. By Tish Harrison Warren / NYT
New York City’s Largest Evangelical Church Plans Billion-Dollar Development. By Emily Belz / Christianity Today
3 ways Catholics can be allies to Asian Americans. By Channing Lee / NCR
Why the largest US Lutheran denomination apologized to a Latino congregation. By Emily McFarlan Miller / Religion News
Colonial Williamsburg tells the story of early American settlers. But in 1956 it paved over Black history to make a parking lot. By Jacquelyne Germain / CNN
The Right-Wing Plot To Destroy Public Libraries. By Nathalie Baptiste / HuffPost
Scholars Remember Dr. James Turner, Pioneer of Africana Studies. By Walter Hudson / Diverse Issues in Higher Ed.
Federal Officials Charge Four Officers in Breonna Taylor Raid. By Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs / NYT
Racial Disparities in Monkeypox Outbreak Go Unmentioned in Press Call. By Margo Snipe / Capital B
Albert Woodfox, who spent nearly 44 years in solitary confinement, dies. By Shauneen Miranda / NPR
The Christian Right Fires A Warning Shot At Senate Republicans. By Sarah Posner / TPM
Black Catholic groups gather for first in-person joint meeting in two years. By Dan Stockman / Global Sisters Report
