National News
Examining the Grand Ole Opry’s complicated role in Black history and the road ahead. By Marcus K. Dowling / USA Today
Diversity roles disappear three years after George Floyd protests inspired them. By Curtis Bunn / NBC News
San Francisco debates reparations for Blacks: Is $5 million each enough? By Emmanuel Felton / Wash Post
Historians shine light on lesser-known Black History at Bacon’s Castle in Surry County. By Jessica Larche / WTKR
University of North Carolina moves to ban ‘diversity, equity and inclusion’ statements in anti-woke backlash. By Kendall Tietz / Fox News
America, Right-Wing Censors and the ‘Battle for the Next Century’ By Charles M. Blow / NYT
In Jackson, Mississippi, how can a separate criminal justice system be equal? By Jade A. Craig / USA Today
How Clarence Thomas went from a left-wing Black radical to one of the Supreme Court’s most conservative judges. By James Pasley / Business Insider
Reviving the Southern Black Labor Movement. By Erica A. Smiley and Keesha Gaskins Nathan / The Progressive
Report: Black married couples face heavier tax penalties. By Jaclyn Diaz / NPR
Top executives at the largest companies are white men. Here’s why. By Jessica Guyum and Jayme Fraser / USA Today
The anti-racist Mormon trying to teach his fellow LDS church members. By Rachel Martin / NPR
How John and Alice Coltrane’s music inspired a vision for American Hinduism. By Murali Balaji / RNS
The White Press & Jim Crow. By Justin Laing / AAIHS
Florida’s Stop Woke Act is latest in a long history of censoring Black scholarship. By Darryl Robertson / Andscape
The Campus Walkout That Led to America’s First Black Studies Department. By Farrell Evans / History
Angela Davis ‘Can’t Believe’ Ancestry Discovery About Mayflower Relative. By Chrissy Callahan / Today
Black Theology Sings of Freedom. By Dante Stewart / Christianity Today
Republicans use ‘wokeism’ to attack left — but struggle to define it. By Ashley Parker and Liz Goodwin / Wash Post
Black Mayors of 4 Biggest U.S. Cities Draw Strength From One Another. By Emma G. Fitzsimmons and Jeffery C. Mays / NYT
In Mississippi’s Capital, Old Racial Divides Take New Forms. By Michael Wines / NYT
Rep. Barbara Lee launches U.S. Senate run in California. By Maeve Reston / Wash Post
Did Politics Scrub ‘systemic’ from AP African American Studies Plan. By Nick Anderson / Wash Post
The racist idea that changed American education. By Matt Barnum / Vox
At VMI, two classmates — one Black, one White — war over school’s future. By Ian Shapira / Wash Post
Who Killed Malcolm X? Family to File $100M Suit v. FBI, CIA, NYPD & Others to Find the Truth. By Amy Goodman / Democracy Now
