National News
A Black protester voiced anger at police in South Carolina. She got 4 years in prison. By AP and NPR
Barack and Michelle Obama make first joint return to the White House for unveiling of official portraits. By Maegan Vazquez / CNN
The Christian right’s Faustian bargain. By Mark Silk / RNS
Hillsdale, Michigan Christian college, is infiltrating Florida’s schools. By Mary Harris / Slate
Mega Preacher Creflo Dollar Says His Preaching On Tithing Was All Wrong: Black America Responds. By Ann Brown / The Moguldom Nation
Historian of Radical Right: Biden Is Correct, Trump Poses Existential Threat to Future of Democracy. By Amy Goodman / Democracy Now
Richmond’s statues fell. Now these sisters aim to lift up Black history. By Gregory S. Schneider / Wash Post
She was the first Black child to desegregate her school. This is what she learnt. By Mary Louise Kelly, Elena Burnett, Mallory Yu and Courtney Dorning / NPR
‘They are human beings’: Chicago mayor welcomes migrants bussed by Texas. By Ed Pilkington / The Guardian
What Happened to the White Working Class? By Barbara Ehrenreich / The Nation
Ron DeSantis Is Mounting An Ideological Revolution Inside Florida School Boards. By Nathalie Baptiste / HuffPost
Bank of America Tests No-Down-Payment Mortgages in Black and Hispanic Neighborhoods. By Jenny Gross / NYT
Monkeypox disparity: Black, Hispanic people more cases, fewer vaccines. By Nada Hassanein / USA Today
Meet the Scholar-Activist Who Changed Baptist Minds on Race. By Nathan Finn / Christianity Today
In latest ‘gOD-Talk’ discussion, Black millennials discuss hip-hop and faith. By Religion News Service
World’s Richest Negro Girl’ inspired media ridicule, fascination, alarm. By Sudney Trent / Wash Post
How Black washerwomen in the South became pioneers of American labor. By Kim Kelly / Wash Post
The First A.P. African American Studies Class Is Coming This Fall. By Anemona Hartocollis / NYT
Fight over future of library that sparked civil rights ideas. By Travis Loller / AP and ABC News
Mississippi’s Dry Run for Eco-Apartheid. By Kate Aronoff / The New Republic
More than 40% of Americans think civil war likely within a decade | US politics. By Martin Pengelly / The Guardian
Biden to give prime-time speech about ‘soul of the nation’ as voters prepare to cast midterm ballots. By Mike Memoli / NBC News
Abrams, Georgia Dems call midterms ‘unfinished business.’ By Bill Barrow and Jeff Amy / AP and ABC News
Los Angeles Is Creating a Model for Fighting Mass Incarceration. By Mark Engler and Paul Engler / Dissent
Mississippi’s largest city in water crisis as treatment plant fails. By Emmanuel Felton and Bryan Pietsch / Wash Post
In St. Louis, doulas push for better reproductive health care — especially for Black patients. By Gabrielle Hays / PBS
