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Diversity Is For Show; Harvard Study Shows Harvard Is For Rich People. By Jason Weisberger / Boingboing
Wheaton College Releases Report On Its History Of Racism. By Daniel Silliman And Kate Shellnutt / Christianity Today
The Resilient Voice Of Justice: The Role Of The Black Church In Response To The Affirmative Action Ruling. By Antonio L. Ellis / Diverse Issues In Higher Ed
Catholic Clergy Abuse Survivors Of Color Endure Compounded Trauma. By Katie Collins Scott / NCR
What Does America Owe The Victims Of Racial Terrorism? By Charles M. Blow / NYT
The Monticello Plantation Hides Secrets About The Thomas Jefferson Mystery. By Linda Edwards / Showsnob
Hip-Hop Is The Music Of Vinyl Librarians. By Dan Charmas / NYT
Media Mogul Byron Allen Places $10B Offer For Disney Networks Including ABC And FX, Report Says. By Ngozi Nwanji / Afrotech
Alabama will mark the 60th anniversary of the 1963 church bombing that killed four Black girls. By The AP and NBC News
Experts on Judge Chutkan and Trump: “Despite her encouraging words, she has yet to take action.” Chauncey Devega / Salon
What Do Nikki Haley and Tim Scott Really Want? By A.B. Stoddard / The Bulwark
Analysis: Here’s why many Black people despise Clarence Thomas. (It’s not because he’s a conservative.) By John Blake / CNN
Diversity rhetoric plummets among execs after affirmative action ruling. By Redd Brown and Bloomberg / Fortune
Don’t Listen to Eric Adams. Immigrants Make New York City. By Brad Lander / The Nation
Five former officers charged with federal civil rights violations in Tyre Nichols beating death. By AP and Andscape
Suicide rates among Black Americans are increasing by double digits. By Dwayne Bray / Andscape
Historically Black Colleges Land $124 Million Donation to Boost Enrollment, Graduation Rates. By Melissa Korn / WSJ
He Became the Nation’s Ninth Vice President. She Was His Enslaved Wife. By Shadowblot1 / The Daily Kos
How the Underground Railroad Got Its Name. By Scott Shane / NYT
7 state flags still have designs with ties to the Confederacy. By Gillian Brockell / Wash Post
The story of Emmett Till is the story of America. By Robert P. Jones / RNS
Bayard Rustin Challenged Progressive Orthodoxies. By James Kirchick / NYT
PragerU’s Confederate classroom propaganda: Co-opting history to prop up modern insurrectionists. By Amanda Marcotte / Salon
Dignified Silence Doesn’t Work Against Trump. By Charles M. Blow / NYT
Jacksonville begins funerals for Black victims of racist attack at Dollar General. By The AP and NBC News
Police fatally shot a pregnant Black woman in Ohio. The calls for accountability are growing. By Li Zhou / Vox
Affirmative action wars hit the workplace: Conservatives target ‘woke’ DEI programs. By Jessica Guynn / USA Today
California school district offers unique Korean American studies class. By Brahmjot Kaur / NBC News
The Sierra Club hired its first Black leader. Turmoil over racial equity followed. By Maxine Joselow / Wash Post
Dr. Corey D. B. Walker Appointed Dean of the School of Divinity at Wake Forest University. By Arrman Kyaw / Diverse Issues in Higher Ed
