National
The Mysterious Life and Afterlife of Private Fitz Lee. By Carol Rosenberg / NYT
Her 1951 walkout helped end school segregation. Now her statue is in the U.S. Capitol. By Rachel Treisman / NPR
Trump’s Anti-Immigration Tirade Sparks Major Backlash. By Olivia-Anne Cleary / Time
There are two Black Americas. Not everyone is happy about it. By Theodore R. Johnson / Wash Post
Miami Elects First Democratic Mayor in Nearly 30 Years. By Patricia Mazzei / NYT
Justice Department Will No Longer Investigate Claims of Systemic Racism, Sexism. By Jasper Smith / The Chronicle of Higher Ed.
John Robert’s Decades-Long Project to Neuter the Voting Rights Act. By David Daley / The Atlantic
Rep. Jasmine Crockett Enters Texas Senate Race as Allred Exits. By Grace Panetta / The 19th
Texas GOP turns schools into indoctrination machines. By Lisa Needham / Daily Kos
Morehouse Rhodes Scholar Sets New Standard for HBCU Excellence. HBCU Editors
MacKenzie Scott Keeps Giving – Another $25M Goes to Lincoln University. By Bernadette Giacomazzo / Complex
State Universities Are Scrambling to Appease the Bigoted MAGA Regime. By Aaron R. Hanlon / TNR
Why Is Christianity So Hard to Find in the Trump Administration? By Ross Douthat / NYT
Two governors — a Mormon Republican and a Jewish Democrat — team up to stop political violence. By Adelle M. Banks / RNS
Trump loyalists ‘declare war on the Catholic church. By Lesley Abravanel / AlterNet
“Honor Our History”: Trump Slammed for Ending Free National Park Entry on Juneteenth & MLK Day. By Amy Goodman / Democracy Now
What we get wrong about the Montgomery bus boycott – and what we can learn from it. By Jeanne Theoharis / The Guardian
Where Are the Black Panther Party Leaders Today? By Asheea Smith / The Root
Why Doesn’t Trump Pay a Political Price for His Racism? By Adam Serwer / The Atlantic
Supreme Court allows Texas to use a congressional map favorable to Republicans in 2026. By Mark Sherman / AP
Federal Immigration Agents Arrive in New Orleans. By Eduardo Medina, Hamed Aleaziz and Shannon Sims / NYT
Here’s why Latino voters are turning away from Trump. By Alex Samuels / Daily Kos
School Integration Has Lost Steam. Will Mamdani Revive It in New York? By Troy Closson / NYT
Billionaire Michael Bloomberg’s Plan To Bring Charter Schools To Stillman College, Tuskegee University—And HBCUs Nationwide. ByAsia Alexander / Forbes
University of Alabama shutters Black, female student magazines. By AP and Politico
Private school vouchers in Florida redirecting funding away from public schools. By Kaitlyn McCormack / WUSF
For Catholics, mass deportations are immoral. By David Lantigua / NCR
Muslim students warn of spate of harassment by far-right Christian agitators. By Ulaa Kuziez / RNS
America stares down erasure of Black history and progress. By Delano Massey / Axios
What Rosa Parks can teach us about resistance today. By Jan-Werner Muller / The Guardian
