National
Our President Is Truly the Ugliest American. By David Rothkopf / Daily Beast
The Fight Is Upon Us: What The Right to Vote Looks Like on Trump’s Terrain of Violence. By Josh Marshall / TPM
Black Journalists And Black Freedom Go Hand-In-Hand. By Anoa Changa-Peck / Newsone
Why This Might Be a Grim Week for the Haitians of Springfield, Ohio. By Michael Tomasky / TNR
Black, Latino admissions at top universities dropped after Supreme Court ruling. By Lexi Lonas Cochran / The Hill
How Colleges’ Pursuit of a Diverse Professoriate Came Back to Bite Them. By Emma Pettit / The Chronicle of Higher Ed.
Trump escalates Harvard feud with $1B demand. By Bianca Quilantan / Politico
Religious voters are ‘recoiling at Trump’s cruelty.’ By Alex Henderson / MSN
A Theology of Immigration. By Jay Caspian Kang / The New Yorker
Were You There When They Crucified My Lord? Why so-called “Christian nationalists” have a Jesus problem. By William J. Barber and Jonathan Wilson-Hargrove
Why Black History Month Matters At 100 More Than Ever. By Shannon Dawson / Newsone
How a Slave’s Son Fought for Black Rights in Reconstruction-Era Louisiana. By Carl Rollyson / New York Sun
Tearing Apart ‘The Old Thread-bare Lie.’ By Marvin Olasky / Christianity Today
Why James Forman Still Matters. By Eric Morrison-Smith / The Progressive Magazine
We’re on the eve of what could be America’s final reckoning. By Thom Hartman / MSN
The Logical End Point of Trump Saying He Could Shoot Somebody on Fifth Avenue. By Jonathan Chait / The Atlantic
How Kristi Noem turned ICE into the Proud Boys. By Amanda Marcotte / Salon
Jeffries slams Stephen Miller as ‘hateful bigot’ and ‘architect’ of DHS ‘brutality.’ By Sarah Fortinsky / The Hill
America has reached a tipping point on fascism – and on opposition to it. By Robert Reich / The Guardian
Attack on Ilhan Omar Follows Years of Trump’s Targeting Her. By Annie Karni / NYT
New evidence shows how discrimination shortens lives in Black communities. By Akilah Johnson / Wash Post
So-Called “Intellectual Freedom Centers” Spread Right-Wing Ideologies on Campus. By Sophie Hayssen / Prism
HBCU could soon have federal funding restored after 105 years. By Stephen J. Gaither / HBCU Gameday
Virginia Democrats target military college’s funding after anti-DEI push. By Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff, Erin Cox and Ian Shapira / Wash Post
Catholic Church emerges as a bulwark of resistance. By Avery Lotz / MSN
The pioneering path of Augustus Tolton, the first Black Catholic priest in the US – born into slavery, he’s now a candidate for sainthood. By Annie Selak / The Conversation
Young Christians Can Stay in the Black Church. By Michael Lyles II / Christianity Today
What ICE Should Have Learned from the Fugitive Slave Act. By Jelani Cobb / The New Yorker
America Keeps Trying to Clean Up George Washington’s History, But We Won’t Forget the Nine He Enslaved. By Wayne Washington / The Root
ASALH Marks Century of Black History Month Celebrations in 2026. By Walter Hudson / EduLedger
