National News
A push in Congress to help Black WW II vets who didn’t benefit from the GI Bill. By Guil Lawrence / NPR
HBCU bomb threats drive frustration. No FBI word on arrests. Tiffany Cusaac-Smith and Francesca Chambers / USA Today
The Political Gospel of Raphael Warnock. By Benjamin Wallace-Wells / The New Yorker
America’s religious divide isn’t really about religion. By E.J. Dionne Jr. / Wash Post
Theological pandemic: Why evangelicals embraced Jan. 6 and the Big Lie. By Nathaniel Manderson / Salon
A slaveholding senator, an 1879 wedding and a Black family’s mystery. By Julie Zauzmer Weil / Wash Post
Kansas City still suffers the failures of school desegregation experiments. By David Von Drehle / Wash Post
A Brooklyn school’s students fought to add AP African American Studies to their curriculum. By Janelle Griffith / NBC News
As midterms near, immigrants and voters of color being targeted with rampant misinformation. By Areeba Shah / Salon
Abrams and Warnock pursue very different strategies in key Georgia races. By Sahil Kapur / NBC News
Florida Senate debate: Takeaways from Marco Rubio and Val Demings. By Zac Anderson / Tallahassee Democrat
Redistricting fight over who is Black in Louisiana voting map. By Hansi Lo Wang / NPR
Does campus diversity justify affirmative action? Our study says yes. By Adam Chilton Justin Driver, Jonathan Masur and Kyle Rozema / Wash Post
Congress investigates Jackson water crisis and Mississippi’s use of federal funds. By Bracey Harris / NBC News
Babies born to Black mothers die far more often than those with white mothers. By Aria Bendix / NBC News
George Floyd’s family to file $250 million lawsuit against Ye, a.k.a. Kanye West. By Matt Adams / NPR
Anna May Wong will become the first Asian American on U.S. coins. By Ashley Ahn / NPR
Fewer than half of Americans may be Christian by 2070, according to new projections. By Bob Smietana / RNS
Catholics have a duty to combat voter suppression, webinar participants say. By Aleja Hertzler-McCain / NCR
How Warnock’s church highlights the key to Georgia’s Senate race. By Eugene Daniels / Politico
The Growing Religious Alliance to Ban LGBTQ Books. By David Masciotra / The New Republic
What an Antislavery Politician Missed and Why It Still Matters. By Jamelle Bouie / NYT
Famed Brown v. Board ruling debated in Supreme Court admissions cases. By John Fritze / USA Today
The Legal Mind of Constance Baker Motley. By Tomiko Brown-Nagin / AAIHS
Americans living in Ghana explain why they made the move to Africa. By Pam Rentz / Andscape
The U.S. Thinks ‘It Can’t Happen Here.’ It Already Has. By Jamelle Bouie / NYT
