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The ongoing fight to replace racist monuments in the US: ‘requires a lot of perseverance.’ By Briana Ellis-Gibbs / The Guardian
Public health expert: Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” will cause misery and death. By Chauncey Devega / Salon (Image by CBS)
7 Trump-Era Court Cases That Threaten Civil Rights Protections. By Jonathan Forney / Capital B
How Awful Is the Republican Megabill? Here Are Four of the Worst Parts. By Jacob S. Hacker and Patrick Sullivan / NYT
On a Quiet Southern Border, Empty Farms and Frightened Workers. By Edgar Sandoval / NYT
Top Dem Vows to Investigate ‘Piece of S**t’ Stephen Miller. By Tom Sanders / The Daily Beast
We can still save education — and that’s the key to saving democracy. By Henry A Giroux / Salon
University of Virginia president to resign amid Trump administration DEI probe. By Margaret Brennan / CBS News
Florida and other Southern public universities form new accreditation panel. By Elizabeth Crisp / The Hill
The GOP megabill takes aim at universities. But Hillsdale College gets a carveout. By Caitlin Oprysko / Politico
4 HBCUs Come Together To Launch Groundbreaking Digital Learning Platform. By Shannon Dawson / Newsone
Catholic Bishops Try to Rally Opposition to Trump’s Immigration Agenda. By Elizabeth Dias / NYT
Zohran Mamdani: NYC Mayor Hopeful With Interfaith Roots. By Dilip Amin Patheos
Texas 10 Commandments law is about baiting Supreme Court. By Chris Brennan / USA Today
We’re Raising a Generation of Black Kids Who Don’t Understand Blackness. Here’s How it Happened. By Lawrence Ware / The Root
How Trump Upended 60 Years of Civil Rights in Two Months. By Nikole Hannah-Jones / NYT
Mamdani Topples Cuomo in NYC Democratic Mayoral Primary Race. By Solcyré Burga / Time
Supreme Court lets Trump administration resume deportations to third countries without notice for now. By Melissa Quinn / CBS News
How ‘Unwoke’ Black America Thought They Had it Made But Played Into the Far Right’s Decades-Long Masterplan to Elevate a Figure Like Trump. By Lawrence Ware / The Root
Ketanji Brown Jackson is done playing nice with Neil Gorsuch. By Mark Joseph Stern / Slate
McDonald’s responds to nationwide boycott. By Hugh Cameron / Newsweek
Florida Republicans racially gerrymandered two state senate districts, court hears. By Richard Luscombe / The Guardian
‘The Principal Farmer’ Is Teaching Black Families How to Build Sustainable Lives. By Aria Bell / Blavity
How HBCUs fight for survival in Trump’s America. By Theodore R. Johnson / Wash Post
The Republican Plot to Un-Educate America. By Astra Taylor andEleni Schirmer / New Republic
Behind Closed Doors, Harvard Officials Debate a Risky Truce With Trump. By Michael S. Schmidt and Alan Blinder / NYT
Evangelicals push Trump into conflict with Iran. By Amanda Marcotte / Salon
Acknowledging racism offers healing grace, Fordham theologian’s book says. By Mike Mastromatteo / NCR
Why Pro-Life Black Christians Rejected Pro-Life Politics. By Daniel K. Williams / Christianity Today
The Pulpit Is on the Precipice of the Schoolhouse Steps, and People Are Fighting Back. By Danny Cherry / Progressive Magazine
