Featured Black leaders say threats to undermine US democracy appear aimed at their community. By Ayanna Alexander / AP 

Featured The Idea That Biden Should Just Give Up Political Power Is Preposterous. By Jamelle Bouie / NYT

Featured Alabama will mark the 60th anniversary of the 1963 church bombing that killed four Black girls. By The AP and NBC News

Featured PragerU’s Confederate classroom propaganda: Co-opting history to prop up modern insurrectionists. by Amanda Marcotte / Salon 

Featured Democracy’s Assassins Always Have Accomplices. By Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt / NYT

Featured A DeSantis Speech Too Dangerous to Teach in Florida. By Adam Serwer / The Atlantic  

Featured Deion Sanders’ one consistent rule emerges in Colorado’s upset of TCU. By William C. Rhoden / Andscape 

Featured More schools that forced American Indian children to assimilate revealed. By Dana Hedgpeth and Emmanuel Martinez / Wash Post 

Featured ‘I Have a Dream,’ Yesterday and Today. By Darren Sands / NYT

Featured How Hip-Hop Became America’s Poetry. By John McWhorter / NYT

Featured Trump Is Constitutionally Prohibited From the Presidency. By J. Michael Luttig and Laurence H. Tribe / The Atlantic 

Featured Fani Willis, the Georgia prosecutor who is taking on Trump. By Mariana Alfaro ,Holly Bailey  and Tom Hamburger / Wash Post

Featured Why an Unremarkable Racist Enjoyed the Backing of Billionaires. By Jamelle Bouie / NYT – Image The Racket

Featured Alabama brawl turns spotlight on Montgomery’s racial history. By Nicquel Terry Ellis and Chandelis Duster / CNN

Featured The Unsung African American Scientists of the Manhattan Project. By Farrell Evans / History

Featured ‘Gut-level Hatred’ Is Consuming Our Political Life. By Thomas B. Edsall / NYT 

Featured GOP state attorneys general shift affirmative action battle lines to the workplace. By Wyatte Grantham-Phillips and Geoff Mulvhill / PBS

Featured The Supreme Court didn’t end affirmative action for white people. By Fabiola Cineas / Vox 

Featured What Was Clarence Thomas Thinking? The Most Baffling Argument a Supreme Court Justice Has Ever Made.  By Adam Serwer / The Atlantic

Featured Harvard legacy admissions lawsuit follows affirmative action Supreme Court ruling. By Collin Bindley / AP and Fortune. 

Featured The Supreme Court struck down admissions programs at Harvard and the University of North Carolina that used race in college admissions Thursday.

Featured Diversity, equity and inclusion: The new American battlefield. By Tirien Steinbach / The Hill

Featured Why the right is so terrified of “woke”: There are truths it just can’t face.  By Kirk Swearingen / Salon 

Featured “Red states are forming ‘a nation within a nation’ with laws that recreate ‘a pre-1960s world.’  By Brad Reed / Raw Story

Featured Saving democracy at home and abroad requires, and required, diversity and inclusion. By Herbert M. Berkowitz / Tampa Bay Times

Featured Affirmative Action Never Had a Chance. By Zak Cheney-Rice / New York Magazine

Featured Racism Pervades College Sports. It’s Taking An Alarming Toll On Athletes. By Margo Snipe / Capital B