National News
Slavery’s Indelible Stain on a White Abolitionist Legend. By Michael Jeffries / NYT
John Hope Franklin and WWII as a Crisis of Democracy. By Thomas Cryer / AAIHS
What A. Philip Randolph Knew About Jobs and Freedom. By Jamelle Bouie / NYT
How to Divide the Working Class. By Charles M. Blow / NYT
The five Black governors who came before Maryland’s Wes Moore. By Gillian Brockell / Wash Post
Florida Gov. DeSantis leads the GOP’s national charge against public education that includes lessons on race and sexual orientation. By Jonathan Feingold / The Conversation
For Black voters, great expectations of America’s lone Black governor. By Ovetta Wiggins ,Erin Cox and Lateshia Beachum / Wash Post
What is Hillsdale College? Florida Gov. DeSantis wants to replicate it. By Nirvi Shah / USA Today
A Georgia Republican Brags That Voter Suppression Helped Them in 2022. By Joan Walsh / The Nation
Supreme Court justices are showing their willingness to boost conservative causes. By Joan Biskupic / CNN
Jackson, Mississippi’s water crisis persists as national attention and help fade away. By Char Adams / NBC News
San Francisco Reparations Committee Recommends One-Time $5M Payment to Longtime Black Residents, An Apology for ‘Decades of Harm.’ By Niko Mann / Atlanta Black Star
Catholics must be ‘active participants’ in MLK’s ‘unfinished’ work, Cardinal Gregory says. By Richard Szczepanowski / NCR
Religion 102: Secular Humanism. By Ojibwa / Daily Kos
How a Sunken Slave Ship Set Off “a Search for Ourselves.” By Sam Jones / Mother Jones
By Dismantling Racist Myths, The 1619 Project Becomes Intensely Patriotic TV. By Stephen Robinson / Primetimer
Biden delivers sermon drawing on legacy of Rev. Martin Luther King: ‘This is a time of choosing.’ By Donald Judd and Sonnet Swire / CNN
It’s not just Trump: A sobering new report chronicles the extensive GOP war on democracy. By Amanda Marcotte / Salon
Maryland’s governor to take oath on Frederick Douglass’s Bible. By Joe Heim / Wash Post
Justice Dept. wins $31 million redlining settlement with L.A. bank. By David Nakamura / Wash Post
Selling Houses While Black. By Colette Coleman / NYT
How American Jews Helped Shape the American Idea. By Sam B. Girgus / The Bulwark
Kirk Whalum on Catholic conversion, gospel jazz, and finding identity in God. By Nate Tinner-Williams / NCR
Not quite losing my religion: Being a liberal evangelical isn’t always easy. By Nathaniel Manderson / Salon
Black Widows and the Struggle for Pensions after the Civil War. By Hilary Green / AAIHS
“Master Slave Husband Wife”: A startling tale of disguise to escape slavery. By Mark Whitaker / CBS News
