Featured The spirit of Old Dixie rises in D.C. By Colbert I. King / Wash Post  

Featured Trump Says Smithsonian Focuses Too Much on ‘How Bad Slavery Was.’ By Zolan Kanno-Youngs / NYT 

Featured A History of National Guard Deployments in Heavily Black U.S. Cities. By Brandon Tensley / Capital B

Featured What Federal Control of D.C. Police Could Mean for Overpolicing in Black Communities. By Christina Carrega / Capital B

Featured Obama blasts Texas GOP redistricting plan as a ‘power grab.’  By Joey Garrison / USA Today 

Featured How Our History Became “Divisive.” By Stephen Kearse / Mother Jones 

Featured The US is complicit in genocide. Let’s stop pretending otherwise. By Mehdi Hasan / The Guardian 

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Featured Trump’s mass deportation is backfiring. By Aaron Blake / CNN 

Featured Alligator Alcatraz: American history from the dark side.  By Andrew O’Hehir / Salon 

Featured The Rev William Barber’s ‘moral movement’ confronts Trump’s America. Can it work? By Adam Harris / The Guardian 

Featured Public health expert: Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” will cause misery and death. By Chauncey Devega / Salon (Image by CBS)

Featured How Trump Upended 60 Years of Civil Rights in Two Months. By Nikole Hannah-Jones / NYT 

Featured Trump is terrified of Black culture. But not for the reasons you think. By Saida Gundy / The Guardian (Image Rosemary Works School)

Featured William Parker Recalls How He Escaped Slavery.  By William Parker / The Atlantic

Featured Maybe Trump and Miller Don’t Understand Americans as Well as They Think They Do. By Jamelle Bouie / NYT 

Featured Trump Wants You to Get Used to This. By Ruth Ben-Ghiat / NYT 

Featured 7 Black Music Pioneers You Should Know This Black Music Month. By Tabie Germain / BET (Image JFH News)

Featured Trump’s Attacks on Black History Betray America. By Ibram X. Kendi / NYT 

Featured Reimagining Racial Categories: Moving Beyond “White People” in Our Lexicon. By Chat GPT (AI generated)

Featured The world witnessed George Floyd’s murder. 5 years later, what has changed?  By Michel Martin / NPR 

Featured An Open Letter to Clarence Thomas. By Elie Mystal / The Nation

Featured A Trumped Up Police State Is Coming. By Radley Balko, Akela Lacy and Jessica Washington / The Intercept Briefing Podcast 

Featured They Were Waiting for Trump All Along. By Jamelle Bouie / NYT 

Featured Pope Leo’s Creole Roots Evoke Sense of Connection From Some Catholics of Color. By John Eligon / NYT 

Featured The Most Corrupt Presidency in American History. By David Frum / The Atlantic 

Featured Trump turns civil rights upside down in ‘biggest rollback’ since Reconstruction. By Zachary B. Wolf / CNN

Featured Trump Recasts Mission of Justice Dept.’s Civil Rights Office, Prompting ‘Exodus.’  By Devlin Barrett / NYT

Featured The Real Meaning of Trump’s Smithsonian Executive Order. By Clint Smith / The Atlantic 

Featured Trump’s Power Feeds on White Demographic Fears. By James Risen / The Intercept 

Featured What’s Happening Is Not Normal. America Needs an Uprising That Is Not Normal. By David Brooks / NYT 

Featured America, This Is an Old and Brutal Tyranny. By Jamelle Bouie / NYT