National
Amid cruelty and oppression, can the church be faithful at human scale? By C. Andrew Doyle / Christian Century
The Fugitive Slave Who Wrote to the President. By Regina E. Mason / The Atlantic
Selma Was Not Just History, It Was a Warning. By Tre’ Murphy / The Root
Why Confronting Racism Feel Unpatriotic. By Jeffrey Kass / Level Man
Trump’s gains among Black voters erode as economic promises fade. By Nnamdi Egwuonwu and Akayla Gardner / MS Now
It Can Now Be Plainly Said: Trump Is Planning a November Coup d’État. By Michael Tomasky / TNR
How Trump Will Fill His Gulags. By Pema Levy / Mother Jones
Black America Explodes After Trump Fires Kristi Noem. By Phenix S Halley / The Root
In the Texas Primaries, a Good Night for James Talarico, and a Bad One for John Cornyn. By Benjamin Wallace-Wells / The New Yorker
Formerly incarcerated Black men say they’re ‘doing OK’ while trying to cope with depression and PTSD. By Helena Addison / The Conversation
How to Fix the Broken Black Male Teacher Pipeline. By Jacob Easley / Eduledger
‘Excellence’: Smithsonian exhibit celebrates HBCUs amid attacks on Black history. By Adria R. Walker / The Guardian
What Will Be Left After the University of Texas Destroys Itself? By Aaron Boehmer / The Nation
ProPublica Sues Education Department for Withholding Records About Discrimination in Schools. By Jennifer Smith Richards and Jodi S. Cohen / Propublica
GOP-Run Florida University Group Chat Devolved Into Racism and Talk of Violence. By Chris Walker / Truthout
Johnson: US Must Wage War With Iran Because of Its “Misguided Religion.” By Sharon Zhang / Truthout
James Talarico is living up to the hype — by staying true to his faith. By Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons / MS Now
The Catholic Bishops Who Wrote a Scorching Brief Against Trump. By Matt Ford / TNR
Historians resist Trump’s effort to police the past. By Chauncey Devega / Salon
A film honors America’s first self-governed town founded by formerly enslaved people. By Adria R. Walker / The Guardian
Reparations advocates push for payments to Black Americans despite budget and legal challenges. By Joshua Q. Nelson / Fox News
Bernard LaFayette, Freedom Rider and Selma voting rights organizer, dies at 85. By Travis Loller / AP and PBS
Henrietta Lacks’ family reaches second settlement with pharmaceutical brand for ‘stolen’ cells. By Haniyah Philigene / The Grio
Trayvon Martin and Other Black Men, Women Unjustly Killed. By Phenix S. Halley / The Root
Donald Trump’s State of the Union Was Long and Wrong. By Susan B. Glasser / The New Yorker
Study reveals how Trump’s 2024 victory made prejudice cool again. By Adam Lynch / MSN
How Trump and His Allies Are Working to Depress Turnout, Immediate Voters and Steal the 2026. By Katrina Vanden Heuvel / The Nation
Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Joseph Stiglitz Slams Trump’s Myths About Tariffs, Affordability. By Amy Goodman / Democracy Now
Georgia Is Letting a Railroad Seize Land a Black Family Has Owned For 100 Years. By Adam Mahoney and Aallyah Wright / Capital B
Is vicarious racism impacting your children? Its effects can be devastating. By Kay Wicker / The Grio
