National
Zohran Mamdani Is Following a Trail That Jesse Jackson Blazed. By Steve Phillips / The Nation
Judge rejects ‘racially gerrymandered’ maps in Texas that gave Republicans extra districts. By Rachel Leingang / The Guardian
Trump’s war on immigrants is a war on Black Americans, too. By Jonathan Jean-Baptiste / USA Today
Maps Show How Latinos Who Shifted Right in 2024 Snapped Back Left in 2025. By Christine Zhang and Shane Goldmacher / NYT
The Case for a Third Reconstruction. By K. Sabeel Rahman / Dissent
So DEI doesn’t work. OK, what would be better? By Nina Stachenfield / The Fulcrum
Are Black Women Still The ‘Most Educated’ Group In America? By Shannon Dawson / Newsone
MacKenzie Scott Channels Over $700 Million to HBCUs in Historic Giving Spree. By Walter Hudson / Eduledger
Universities Said Black Lives Mattered In 2020. Texas A&M Just Proved They Didn’t Mean It. By Stacey Patton / Newsone
A Christian Answer to Trump and Trumpism Is Finally Here. By David French / NYT
California’s Oldest AME Church Celebrates Historic 175th Anniversary. By Antonio Ray Harvey / Eurweb
The Ken Burns Case for Breaking the Myth of the American Revolution. By Lex Pryor / The Ringer
Meet the first self-ruled community of Black freedmen called Mitchelville — still standing on Hilton Head’s shores. By Natasha S. Alford / The Grio
Ruby Bridges’ Legacy: The Lessons America Still Hasn’t Learned. By Shannon Dawson / Newsone
The remains and stories of Native American students reclaimed from a Pennsylvania cemetery. By Mark Scolforo / NCR
Black Music Sunday: Celebrating W.C. Handy, ‘The Father of the Blues.’ By Denise Oliver Velez / Daily Kos
The longest government shutdown in U.S. history comes to a close. By Barbara Sprunt / NPR
When A Muslim Democratic Socialist Mayor Has An Africana Studies Degree. By Stacey Patton / Newsone
Chicago mayor implores U.N. body to investigate ‘abusive’ immigration campaign. By Tobi Raji / Wash Post
The Equity Docket: Making Black Votes Matter Less. By Terrance Sullivan / The Progressive Magazine
More Americans, especially Black adults, are dying before they can access Medicare benefits, study finds. By Sadie Harley / Medical Express
DEI Rollbacks Are Eroding First-Generation, Low-Income Student Supports. By Sena Ho / The Progressive Magazine
Charlie Kirk’s Group Wants to Grow. Its Latest Target: Black Colleges. By Jasper Smith / The Chronicle of Higher Ed.
In a basement at Howard University, scholars work to preserve Black newspapers. By Ira Porter and Cameron Pugh / CSM
House Republicans say a Virginia college president lied to Congress over DEI. By Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff / Wash Post
Shared songs with new meaning. By Melissa Florer-Bixler / The Christian Century
T.D. Jakes moves from pastoring to podcasting as his next focus. By Adelle M. Banks / RNS
Memorial Honoring Black WWII Soldiers Silently Removed From U.S. Military Cemetery In The Netherlands. By Jeroslyn JoVonn / Black Enterprise
The Ideal That Underlies the Declaration of Independence. By Walter Isaacson / The Atlantic
There’s Still a Shared American Story, and JD Vance’s Blood-and-Soil Vision Isn’t It. By Colin Woodard / NYT
