National
Alabama Reps Fight To Block Sale Of The Freedom Rides Museum. By Jeroslyn JoVonn
The dark parallels between 1920s America and today’s political climate. By Alex Green / The Moderate Voice
A Play About Segregation Tries to ‘Ride a Fine Line’ in Florida. By Jonathan Abrams / NYT
Project 2025 – From Wikipedia . Summarized and annotated with links.
In just five days, Trump has set the country back nearly 100 years. By Dana Milbank / Wash Post
Trump’s War on DEI Is Dismantling Civil Rights Protections. By Brandon Tensley / Capital B
Bishop William Barber: GOP Tax Cuts “Mathematically Impossible” Without Gutting Medicaid and More. By Amy Goodman / Democracy Now
Racism Isn’t the Only Cause of the Racial Wealth Gap. By Eric Herschthal / TNR
Joy Reid’s Ratings Were Going Up When She Was Fired by MSNBC. By Corbin Bolies / Daily Beast
Spineless OU betrayal of Black alumni hurts. We don’t deserve this. By Amelia Robinson / The Columbus Dispatch
As White House considers abandoning foreign aid, faith groups say they can’t do it alone. By Jack Jenkins / RNS
The D C church that beat the Proud Boys in court now owns their name: An interview with Metropolitan AME pastor Bill Lamar. By Jasmin Pittman / The Christian Century
Trump’s Vision for America: I Am God. The Intercept Briefing
How D.C. first lost its right to self-govern, and the long road to home rule. By Petula Dvorak / Wash Post
The US has pardoned insurrectionists twice before – and both times, years of violent racism followed. By Joseph Patrick Kelly and David Carson / The Conversation
60 years after Bloody Sunday in Selma, elusive racial progress. By Debbie Elliott and Marisa Penaloza / NPR
The women who stood with Martin Luther King Jr. and sustained a movement for social change. By Vicki Crawford / The Conversation
Why Republicans Want to Dismantle the Education Department. By Michael C. Bender / NYT
Trump slams DEI as ‘tyranny’ in address to Congress, says US ‘will be woke no longer.’ By Gerren Keith Gaynor / The Grio
“Free speech” warrior Trump announces “unlawful” assault on college protests. By Nicholas Liu / Salon
What Trump, DOGE, and McMahon want to do to the Education Department. By Annan North / Vox
A Kennedy Ally Puts Money Into a Push to Recall Karen Bass. By Theodore Schleifer and Laurel Rosenhall / NYT
How Black leaders are taking on Trump. By Perry Bacon Jr. / Wash Post
The Moral Cost of Murdering Ukraine. By Russell Moore / Christianity Today
Faith Leaders Blast GOP’s Attacks on Poor and Tax Cuts for the Rich. By Jessica Corbett / Common Dreams
Trump’s Christian Nationalists are targeting those the Bible is most worried about. By Liz Theoharris / AlterNet
How the Study of Slavery Has Shaped the Academy. By Scott Spillman / Chronicle of Higher Ed.
Trump, by Any Means Necessary. By David Frum / The Atlantic
The war on DEI is an old American story. By Colbert I. King / Wash Post
MSNBC’s Death Rattle. By Dave Zirin / The Nation
