National News
The God I Know Is Not a Culture Warrior. By Tish Harrison Warren / NYT
American Democracy Was Never Designed to Be Democratic. By Louis Menand / The New Yorker
How Policing Black Women’s Bodies Built the Modern City. By Simon Balto / AAIHS
Faced with a rise of extremism within its ranks, the US military has clamped down on racist speech, including retweets and likes. By Dwight Stirling / The Conversation
The Republican Plan To Devastate Public Education in America. By Brynn Tannehill / TNR
Police shot Jayland Walker 41 times. His mother is fighting for his memory. By Praveena Somasundaram / Wash Post
Climate and Tax Bill to Rewrite Embattled Black Farmer Relief Program. By Alan Rappeport / NYT
Oprah donated $13 million to Morehouse College. Her endowment is now the largest in the school’s history. By Amir Vera / CNN
Republicans keep mostly mum on calls to make GOP ‘party of Christian nationalism.’ By Jack Jenkins / Religion News
The U.S. Needs a National Plan for Racial Justice. Ejim Dike / The Progressive
Lincoln’s midterms: The lessons of 1862, and how they may still apply. By Matthew Rozsa / Salon
When America Joined the Cult of the Confederacy. By Brent Staples / NYT
What Trump and Orbán want: It’s fascism — it’s not a metaphor or a joke. By Chauncey Devega / Salon
Welcome to Georgia, Where the Democrats’ Electoral Dreams Live or Die. By Kevin Lee / New Republic
Biden deserves kudos for diverse judges. But White men still dominate. By Jennifer Ruben / Wash Post
Democrat Mandela Barnes set to challenge GOP Wisconsin Sen. Johnson. By Sara Burnett and Scott Bauer / PBS
Two in Arbery Case Sentenced Again to Life in Prison; Third Man Gets 35 Years. By Richard Fausset / NYT
Family Of Anton Black, Who Died In Police Custody, Reaches $5 Million Partial Settlement. By Phillip Jackson / HuffPost
A grand jury declined to indict a woman whose accusations set off Emmett Till killing. By AP and NPR
American Sikhs are targets of bigotry, often due to cultural ignorance. By Simran Jeet Singh / The Conversation
A Latina professor who was denied tenure at Harvard is demanding a ‘revolution’ in academia. By Zachary Schermele / NBC News
Black, Native American and Latino families face serious problems from inflation. By Will Stone / NPR
Black Americans are now struggling with long Covid. By L’Oreal Thompson Payton / Fortune
The Christian Case for Reading Black Classics. By Patricia Raybon / Christianity Today
What Thomas Merton tells us about the Gospel’s logic vs. our society’s. By Daniel P. Horan / NCR
Utopia in Dark Times. By Victoria W. Wolcott / AAIHS
