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Trump Is Changing Who Gets To Be — And Stay — American. By Nathalie Baptiste / HuffPost
Florida’s new history course whitewashes the founders on slavery. By Chauncey Devega / Salon
New HBCU Coalition Aims to Fast-Track Institutions to R1 Status. By Jamaal Abdul-Alim / The EduLedger
The Democrats Can’t Let Go of Racial Preferences. By Richard D. Kahlenberg / The Atlantic
White House aims to link U.S. history and Christianity in 9-hour prayer festival. By Michelle Boorstein, Laura Meckler and Natalie Allison / Wash Post
Why Trump’s Spiritual Adviser Dedicated a Golden Statue to the President. By Isaac Chotiner / The New Yorker
Black clergy strategize, preach and urge election turnout after Voting Rights Act gutting. By Adelle M. Banks and Jack Jenkins / RNS
America at 250: A declaration of ideals reset the world – and still resonates today. By Scott Baldauf, Colette Davidson and Whitney Eulich / CSM
Charleston’s Gullah Geechee Community Demand 7,000 Acres in Reparations. By Aallyah Wright / Capital B
Trump is losing — and his fragile ego can’t handle the defeat. By Robert Reich / AlterNet
Anti-woke Vivek Ramaswamy confronts racism in his run for Ohio governor. By Hannah Knowles / Wash Post
Florida governor poll shows Donalds chances of beating Jolly. By Anna Commander / Newsweek
A legal scholar and ‘Backtalker’ defends critical race theory — a term she helped coin. By Tonya Mosley / NPR
U.S. Sues The New York Times, Claiming Discrimination Against a White Man. By Rebecca Davis O’Brien / NYT
Too Young for a License, Old Enough for Prison: The Brutal Debate Over 12-Year-Olds Facing Adult Charges in Florida. By Angela Wilson / The Root
Internal ICE records reveal widespread use of force in detention centers. By Douglas MacMillan et al. / Wash Post
Republicans split with Trump and back Haitians – to save their seats. By Stephen Starr / The Guardian
An HBCU Canceled Its MAGA Commencement Speaker, Now Republicans Want to Defund It. By Alecia Taylor / Capital B
TSU And Meharry College Offering Full Ride To Young Black Men Interested In Medical Field. By Kandiss Edwards / Black Enterprise
How Conservatives Took Over the National Endowment for the Humanities. By Matt Hartman / The Chronicle of Higher Ed
Rubio visits Rome aiming to repair White House ties with Pope Leo. By Anthony Faiola, Stefano Pitrelli and Adam Taylor / Wash Post
Religious historian debunks Trump Cabinet’s claim US ‘was founded as a Christian nation.’ By Alex Henderson / AlterNet
Rev. Stephen Green On Faith, Justice, And The Liberating Gospel Of Jesus. By Anoa Changa-Peck / Newsone
How the Slaveholding Founders Really Felt About Slavery. By Timothy Sandefuir / Reason
‘Disgrace’: Horror as red state’s new history course calls slavery a ‘necessary evil.’ By Bennitol L. Kelty / Raw Story
Md. Gov. Wes Moore unveils marker honoring Black boys buried at Maryland reform school. By Bolarinwa Oladeji / The Grio
