National
‘Tenants have no choice’: Racism in urban planning fuels high rate of Black fire deaths. By Char Adams / NBC News
‘Because we know it is possible’: Japanese Americans join fight for reparations. By Michela Moscufo / NBC News
He transformed a small university in Maryland. Now Freeman Hrabowski is ready for his next act. By Lauren Lumpkin / Wash Post
Jon Meacham, Bishop Michael Curry discuss religion, politics and insurrection. By Jack Jenkins / Religion News
Joe Biden Vows To ‘Stand Against’ Anti-Semitism After Colleyville Hostage Standoff. By Khaleda Rahman / Newsweek
American secularism is growing — and growing more complicated. By Michelle Boorstein / Wash Post
Evangelicals do battle with “critical race theory” in new online video course. By Kathryn Joyce / Salon
How Ohio’s Indigenous sacred sites became a religious flashpoint. By Diana Kruzman / RNS
Ethical US consumers struggled to pressure the sugar industry to abandon slavery with less success than their British counterparts. By Calvin Schermerhorn / The Conversation
Black Remembrance and Racial Violence in New Orleans. By Sowande’ M. Mustakeem / AAIHS
MLK And Lillian Smith. By Matthew Teutsch / AAIHS
Va. attorney general overturns 58 historic legal opinions that perpetuated racism. By Emily Davies / Wash Post
Georgia takes center stage as Biden’s visit kicks off year of political battles. By Eric Bradner / CNN
Democrat Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick wins House seat in Florida special election. By David Weigel / Wash Post
Barrier-breaking Black prosecutor faces deadly racist threats. By Christina Carrega / CNN
Symone Sanders, former spokeswoman for Vice President Harris, takes job at MSNBC. By Cleve R. Wootson Jr.
From the Capitol insurrection to the Taliban takeover: The defining religion stories of 2021. By RNS Staff
Can I get an amen? Black Americans’ faith, religious practice detailed in Pew study. By Adelle M. Banks / Religion News
More than 1,700 congressmen once enslaved Enslaved Black people. This is who they were, and how they shaped the nation. By Julie Zauzmer Weil , Adrian Blanco and Leo Dominguez / Wash Post
Senate Passes Bill To Honor Emmett Till And His Mother. By AP and HuffPost
Ida B. Wells, writer and activist, is honored with a Barbie doll. By Elizabeth Blair / NPR
Maya Angelou quarters now being distributed in the US. By Jordan Mendoza / USA Today
César Chávez’s march that changed it all is the topic of a new graphic novel. By Arturo Conde / NBC News
Republican legislatures want to jam through more voting restrictions ahead of 2022 midterms. Igor Derysh / Salon
Michelle Obama wades into 2022 election cycle, urging Americans to ‘Fight For Our Vote.’ By Rachel Janfaza / CNN
Hate Crimes Trial In Arbery Killing To Put Racism Front And Center By Russ Bynum / HuffPost
https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/randall-kennedy-says-it-loud/
Pioneering Civil Rights Lawyer Lani Guinier Dead At 71. Jessica Gresko and Gary Fields / HuffPost
Even in this time of fear, HBCUs continue the African American spiritual tradition of hope. By Denise Oliver Velez / Daily Kos
How Christian nationalism drove the insurrection: A religious history of Jan. 6. By Kathryn Joyce / Salon
