National
Does the Civil Rights Act protect or, as Trump says, promote favoritism? By Deborah Barfield Berry / USA Today
How Trump’s federal job cuts put Black employees at risk. By Marisa Peñaloza, and Hansi Lo Wang / NPR
We Visited Rumeysa Ozturk in Detention. What We Saw Was a Warning to Us All. By Edward J. Markey, Jim McGovern and Ayanna Pressley / NYT
First Black Secretary of Labor Alexis Herman dies at 77. By Tom Dreisbach / NPR
Black church leader says Target boycott won’t ease until DEI programs return. By Adelle M. Banks / RNS
A onetime migrant — now a bishop — asks Catholics: Do we have a heart? By Karen Tumulty / Wash Post
Trump Gets Called Out in Front of Millions at Pope’s Funeral. By Tom Sykes / The Daily Beast
Pam Bondi Unleashes On Alleged ‘Anti-Christian Bias’ — And A Christian Leader Has Thoughts. By Kimberley Richards / HuffPost
The Real Meaning of Trump’s Smithsonian Executive Order. By Clint Smith / The Atlantic
Trump Is Insatiable. By Thomas B. Edsall / NYT
Target rolled back DEI efforts. A boycott ensued – and traffic dropped. By Auzinea Bacon / CNN
A Ticking Clock on American Freedom. By Adrienne LaFrance / The Atlantic
Rubio makes Republicans’ biggest dream come true — but kills America’s soft power in the process. By Heather Digby Parton / Salon
Sen. Tim Scott stays silent as his minority business legacy crumbles under Trump. By katherine Hapgood / Politico
“We stand for truth”: Harvard sues Trump admin over federal funding freeze. By Alex Galbraith / Salon
Another Blackout Forces the Question of Puerto Rico’s Political Future. By Yarimar Bonilla / NYT
Abortion Care Is Central to Black Maternal Health. By Latonia Giwa / The Nation
Progressive Christianity’s Bleak Future. By Elizabeth Bruenig / The Atlantic
The Trump administration hasn’t attacked religious schools and seminaries—yet. By Colton Bernasol / The Christian Century
When the Supreme Court Spoke With One Voice. By Jeffrey Toobin / NYT
The Long Struggle of Jewish Americans Over Their Country’s Crises. By Benjamin Moser / NYT
Georgia university receives $500,000 grant to preserve Gullah Geechee heritage. By Adria R. Walker / The Guardian
Trump’s Power Feeds on White Demographic Fears. By James Risen / The Intercept
Three ex-presidents denounce the current one in a two-week stretch. By Naftali Bendavid / Wash Post
What does my detention by ICE say about America? By Mahmoud Khalil / Wash Post
Trump is wrapping up 100 days of historic failure. By Dana Milbank / Wash Post
A Legal Battle Over Trump’s Threats to Public School Funding Has Begun. By Sarah Mervosh and Dana Goldstein / NYT
What to Know About Head Start, the Early Childhood Education Program the Trump Administration Is Proposing to Eliminate. By Chad de Guzman / Time
As DEI rollbacks take hold, students of color say they’re losing campus support systems. By AP and The Grio
Many HBCUs need government funding, but some are preparing for a future without it. By Marquise Francis / NBC News
