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America stares down erasure of Black history and progress. By Delano Massey / Axios
What Rosa Parks can teach us about resistance today. By Jan-Werner Muller / The Guardian
Haunted by History, Japanese Americans Fight Trump’s Immigration Crackdown. By Jill Cowan / NYT
‘Becoming Thurgood’: How Marshall became ‘Mr. Civil Rights’ and a Supreme Court icon. By Ken Makin / CSMonitor
The Trump train — and its conductor — are losing steam. By Heather Digby Parton / Salon
The mass deportation campaign is already backfiring. By Editorial Board / Wash Post
White nationalism fuels tolerance for political violence nationwide. By Murat Haner, Justin Pickett and Melissa Sloan / The Conversation
Mississippi’s Black Voters Face New Threat in Supreme Court. By Brandon Tensley / Capital B (Image by AP)
Black and Latino homeowners in Philly face discrimination when appraisers assess their properties. By Gregory Squires and Ira Goldstein / The Conversation
The full list of US universities at risk of losing state department funding over DEI support. By Joseph Gedeon / The Guardian
New moves to dismantle the Education Department raise legal questions. By Cory Turner / NPR
Trump’s Anti-Affordability Agenda Has a New Target: College. By Perry Bacon / TNR
Jay-Z’s Foundation Transforms College Access Through Family Support. By Jamal Watson / The Eduledger
Who can tame Trump? An unlikely candidate is emerging: the Catholic church. By Simon Tisdall / The Guardian
African Methodist Episcopal bishop, social justice advocate Reginald Jackson dies at 71. By Adelle M. Banks / RNS
Barn Where Emmett Till Was Killed Will Soon Be A Memorial. By Joe Jurado / Newsone
The Right Wants to Write Indigenous People Out of US History. We Won’t Let Them. By Johnnie Jae / Truthout
Allensworth: How Racism Destroyed A Black Town In California. By Bilal G. Morris / Newsone
Viola Fletcher, oldest survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, dies at 111. By Emily Langer / Wash Post
Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, Black Power Activist Known as H. Rap Brown, Dies at 82. By Paul Vitello / NYT
Zohran Mamdani Is Following a Trail That Jesse Jackson Blazed. By Steve Phillips / The Nation
Judge rejects ‘racially gerrymandered’ maps in Texas that gave Republicans extra districts. By Rachel Leingang / The Guardian
Trump’s war on immigrants is a war on Black Americans, too. By Jonathan Jean-Baptiste / USA Today
Maps Show How Latinos Who Shifted Right in 2024 Snapped Back Left in 2025. By Christine Zhang and Shane Goldmacher / NYT
The Case for a Third Reconstruction. By K. Sabeel Rahman / Dissent
So DEI doesn’t work. OK, what would be better? By Nina Stachenfield / The Fulcrum
