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Civil religion as a gateway to Christian nationalism. By Beau Underwood and Brian Kaylor / RNS
Once Upon A Time, Enslaved Africans Were An Insurance Commodity. By Stacey Patton / Black Enterprise
How the GI Bill widened the Black-white wealth gap. By Ebony Reed / Los Angeles Times
These Researchers Study the Legacy of the Segregation Academies They Grew Up Around. By Jennifer Berry Hawes / ProPublica
The MAGA GOP’s “New Model” for America is the Old South. By Thom Hartmann / The Hartmann Report
Biden takes lead over Trump in Fox News poll for the first time since October 2023. By Nicholas Liu / Salon
The Apprentice Is the Skeleton Key to Understanding Trump. By Will Leitch / New York Intelligencer
Bragg Has Been Deluged With Threats Since Trump’s Conviction. By Nia Prater / New York Intelligencer
Is This the End of the Clarence Thomas Court? By Matt Ford / The New Republic
The Israel Trip That Made Jamaal Bowman — And Could Cost Him His Reelection. By Calder McHugh / Politico
Liberalism Under Siege. Win McCormack / The New Republic
Backlash against DEI spreads to more states. By Erika Bolstad / Daily Kos
Is It Possible to Desegregate the Nation’s Biggest School System? By Troy Closson / NYT
NC A&T’s Chancellor-Elect Vows To Exceed Expectations. By Ashlei Stevens/ Black Enterprise
Louisiana’s Ten Commandments Law Signals a Broader Christian Agenda. By Rick Rojas, David W. Chen and Elizabeth Dias / NYT
How Christian nationalism is going under the radar in this election. By Paul A. Djupe / RNS
Greg Abbott’s School Voucher Crusade Is Three Decades in the Making. by Jeremy Schwartz / ProPublica
These Badges Shed New Light on the Enslaved Workers Who Built Charleston. By Sarah Kuta / Smithsonian Magazine
The site of the first free Black town in the U.S. is being rebuilt near St. Augustine. By C. Isaiah Smalls II / Miami Herald
Three Evangelical ‘Founding Fathers’ and Their Complicated Relationships to Slavery. By Robert Caldwell III / CT
How 99 Black Americans Gained—Then Lost—Land On An Idyllic Georgia Island. By Ruth Murai / Mother Jones
Paying reparations for slavery is possible – based on a study of federal compensation to farmers, fishermen, coal miners, radiation victims and 70 other groups. By Linda J. Bilmes and Cornell William Brooks / The Conversation
Let’s Examine the Link Between MAGA and the Old South. By Thom Hartman / The New Republic
In 1964, the Klan killed three young activists and shocked the nation. By Susan Levine / Wash Post
Biden ramps up push to end Trump’s tax cuts for the wealthy, highlighting the choice in the 2024 election. By Sahil Kapur / NBC News
Trump unleashed: This is the calm before the storm. By Chauncey Devega / Salon
Is the Supreme Court Running Out the Clock on Trump’s Immunity Case? By Leah Litman / NYT
Maryland governor pardons 175,000 marijuana convictions in sweeping order. By Erin Cox , Katie Shepherd and Katie Mettler / Wash Post
GOP pick for N.C. governor downplayed Weinstein allegations, assault by Ray Rice. By Patrick Svitek and Maegan Vazquez / Wash Post
Most Americans approve of DEI, according to Post-Ipsos poll. By Taylor Telford, Emmanuel Felton and Emily Guskin / Wash Post
