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Conservatives are blaming DEI for broken planes. By Fabiola Cineas / Vox
What Removing Sociology as a Core-Course Option Means for Florida’s Students. By Beckie Supiano / The Chronicle of Higher Ed.
GOP Invokes Nullification In Border Standoff Between The U.S. And Texas. By Paul Blumenthal / HuffPost
New Study Shows The U.S. Black Population Growth In 20 Years. By Sharelle Burt / Black Enterprise
One in six Black men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in their lifetime. Early detection is key to saving lives. By Nicquel Terry Ellis / CNN
Julius Becton, Army general who led FEMA and D.C. schools, dies at 97. By Harrison Smith / Wash Post
Black Pastors Pressure Biden to Call for a Cease-Fire in Gaza. By Maya King / NYT
Leonard Leo, architect of conservative Supreme Court, takes on wider culture. By Heidi Schlumpf / NCR
91 Years in a Segregated Mental Institution. By Linda Villarosa / NYT
Black Mothers and the Birth Control Movement. By Destiny Crockett / AAIHS
The Senate’s only Black Republican now loves Trump. It’s not a good look. By Lz Granderson / LA Times
Notoriously Conservative 5th Circuit Court Of Appeals Was Once A Leader In Expanding Civil Rights. By Jonathan Entin / TPM
Tips for White Liberals Who Want to Be Anti-Racist During Black History Month. By Skyler Higley / The New Yorker
Trump Is a Combination of Every Threat We Have Ever Faced in Our History. By David Rothkopf and Bernard Schwartz / The New Republic
Trump’s criminal rebrand of the Republican Party is complete. By Chauncey Devega / Salon
Nikki Haley’s Problem: Her Party Is Nuts. By Will Saletan / The Bulwark
Ron DeSantis ends the most humiliating presidential run in history with one final disgrace. By Heather Digby Parton / Salon
How the Fani Willis allegations could hit the Trump Georgia case. By Ella Lee / The Hill
There’s finally a Clarence Thomas ethics inquiry underway. By Dennis Aftergut and Austin Sarat / Slate
The Campaign Against D.E.I By Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor / The New Yorker
Journalists of color hit hard by L.A. Times layoffs. By Curtis Bunn / NBC News
Dexter Scott King, son of Martin Luther King Jr., dies of cancer at 62. By AP and NPR
A compact with Christian America: What Donald Trump owes the religious right after Iowa. By Chauncey Devega / Salon
How the word ‘voodoo’ became a racial slur. By Daniel N. Boaz / RNS
Grace in the Age of Guilt. By Russell Moore / Christianity Today
Why Did Nat Turner “Confess”? By Patrick Rael / AAIHS
Heather Cox Richardson and the battle over American history. By Kim Phillips-Fein / The Nation
What Is the History of Fascism in the United States? By Richard J. Evans / The Nation
121 potential gravesites found in former Black cemetery at Air Force base. By AP and NPR
How tens of thousands of Black U.S. doctors simply vanished. By Uché Blackstock / Wash Post
