National
Why the Court Hit the Brakes on School Desegregation. By Louis Menand / The New Yorker
How Newspapers Struggled to Cover Segregation in the North. By Jeanne Theoharis / Time
Maryland Reparations Bill Head To Gov. Wes Moore For Approval. By Kandiss Edwards / Black Enterprise
Why Black Men Face So Many Barriers to a College Education. By Allison Wiltz / Level
Liberal Judge Wins Wisconsin Supreme Court Seat, Defying Musk’s Millions. By Kevin Robillard / HuffPost
Unmarked Vans. Secret Lists. Public Denunciations. Our Police State Has Arrived. By M. Gessen / NYT
Sen. Chris Murphy says mass nonviolent protests opposing President Trump are increasingly likely. By Eddy Martinez / CT Public Radio
DEI was never for us anyway. By Oneya Fennell Okuwobi / Salon
Republicans Want Voters To Provide Proof Of Citizenship To Vote. Millions Could Be Impacted. By Matt Shuham / HuffPost
Pam Bondi Tells Justice Department To Drop Legal Challenge To Georgia Election Law. By Kate Brumback / HuffPost
Why America doesn’t really have separation between church and state. By Ian Milhiser / Vox
Descendants Of Enslaved People Who Helped Build Saint Louis University Reject Formal Apology, Calling It ‘Performative.’ By Nahlah Abdur-Rahman / Black Enterprise
Trump Signs Order To Restore Racist Monuments, Remove ‘Anti-America’ Ideology. By Lydia O’Connor / HuffPost
Naval Academy Takes Steps to End Diversity Policies in Books and Admissions. By John Ismay and Kate Selig / NYT
The ‘Meritocracy’ Lie. By Eric Boehim / Reason
Byron Donalds pitches himself as Trump’s gov pick, DeSantis extension in kickoff rally. By Kimberly Leonard / Politico
Georgia Senate approves investigation of Democrat Stacey Abrams as Trump targets her. By Jeff Amy / AP
Trump slashes election security efforts while making it harder for some to vote. By Chris Brennan / USA Today
America has hit the MAGA tipping point. By Heather Digby Parton / Salon
At Black Colleges, a Stubborn Gender Enrollment Gap Keeps Growing. By Clyde McGrady / NYT
Haitian congregations fight fear as Trump administration seeks deportation for immigrants. By Fiona André / RNS
How Should Christians Respond to DEI Initiatives? By Elisa S. Johnston / Patheos
As Trump silences Voice of America, an archbishop raises his voice and leads. By Michael Sean Winters / NCR
Mike Huckabee uses Christianity to justify ethnic cleansing. By Kathryn Shihadah / Patheos
The Untold Story Of The Black Pilgrims Of Plymouth Colony. By Bilal G. Morris / Newsone
Jan. 23, 1873: Jonathan C. Gibbs Named Florida Superintendent of Public Instruction / By Zinn Education Project
Joe Harris, believed to be the oldest surviving WWII paratrooper, has died. By Hallie Golden / AP
Trump Commutes Ozy Media Founder’s Sentence Just Before His Surrender. By Danielle Kaye, Maggie Haberman and Tyler Pager / NYT
Critics see Trump attacks on the ‘Black Smithsonian’ as an effort to sanitize racism in US history. By Bill Barrow / AP and ABC News
What should come after DEI? PFJ. By Perry Bacon Jr. / Wash Post
