National News
Trump’s Cabinet Picks Threaten Black Americans’ Rights and Safety. By Brandon Tensley / Capital One
MSNBC President Rashida Jones steps down after four-year tenure. By Daniel Arkin / NBC News
We should be very worried about the decline of DEI. By Perry Bacon Jr. / Wash Post
Byron Allen’s $10B lawsuit against McDonald’s will go to trial. By Gerren Keith Gaynor / The Grio
The Army of God Comes Out of the Shadows. By Stephanie McCrummen / The Atlantic
The Catholic Church Must Challenge Trump on Deportations. By William K. Reilly / NYT
What Were The Slave Narratives? Why They Were So Important. By Bilal G. Morris / NewsOne
Pondering Martin Luther King on Inauguration Day. By Bruce Epperly / Patheos
Story Of Clennon King: Black Scholar Sent To Mental Asylum For Applying To College. By Bilal G. Morris / NewsOne
As a Felon, Trump Upends How Americans View the Presidency. By Peter Baker / NYT
Elon Musk is a monster bully on the loose, but he can only get his way if we let him. By Martin Kettle / The Guardian
How could Trump’s second term affect DEI initiatives in the US? By Lauren Aratani / The Guardian
Joe Biden: What Americans should remember about Jan. 6. By Joe Biden / Wash Post
DA Fani Willis appeals her disqualification from Trump’s Georgia election interference case. By Olivia Rubin / ABC News
Black and Hispanic student enrollment in medical schools plummeted last year, according to a new report. By Kay Wicker / The Grio
How Jimmy Carter’s so-called betrayal of evangelicals led to MAGA. By Amanda Marcotte / Salon
White Christian nationalists are poised to remake America in their image during Trump’s second term, author says. By John Blake / CNN
An Andraé Crouch Song Has Kept Me From Sin. By Maina Mwaura / Christianity Today
A look at Tallahassee’s first Black landowners after the Civil War. By Ana Goñi-Lessan / Tallahassee Democrat
Tulsa Massacre Was a ‘Coordinated, Military-Style Attack,’ Federal Report Says. By Audra D. S. Burch / NYT
Historic Black Neighborhood Devastated By Los Angeles Wildfires. By Jovonne Ledet / Black Information Network
Charles Person, youngest of the Freedom Riders, dies at 82. By Harrison Smith / Wash Post
From Plains to the Presidency, Jimmy Carter Remembered at National Funeral. By Harvest Prude / Christianity Today
Billionaires court Trump at Mar-a-Lago, his “center of the universe.” By Daria Solovieva / Salon
Why Trump’s Inauguration Falling on MLK Day is Painfully Ironic. By Allison Wiltz / Level
Louisiana: Racism Doesn’t Exist Anymore, So Let Us Racially Gerrymander. By Kate Riga / TPM
