National News
The Artists Turning Nina Simone’s Childhood Home Into a Creative Destination. By Adam Bradley / NYT
Booker brings out emotion during Jackson hearing. By Myah Ward / Politico
Senate Republicans Plot Ugly Attacks On Ketanji Brown Jackson For Gitmo Work. By Jessica Schulberg / HuffPost
Mail Ballot Rejections Surge in Texas, With Signs of a Race Gap. By Nick Corasaniti / NYT
How the Census Undercount Leaves Communities of Color Worse Off. By Adam Mahoney / Mother Jones
What Racism Taught an American Journalist About Covering the War. By Ruby Cramer / Politico
UNCF to launch HBCUv online learning platform targeting Black colleges. By The Grio Staff
Calling Asians ‘robotic’ is a racist stereotype with a long, troubled history. By Long T. Bui / The Conversation
Black adult hospitalizations reached a pandemic high during the omicron wave, CDC study finds. Akilah Johnson / Wash Post
Number of Hispanic Serving Institutions falls as pandemic cuts Latino enrollment. By Suzanne Gamboa / NBC News
Where State Farm Sees ‘a Lot of Fraud,’ Black Customers See Discrimination. By Emily Flitter / NYT
Researchers warn that Christian nationalists are becoming more radical and are targeting voting. By Michelle Boorstein / Wash Post
Ketanji Brown Jackson knows what it means to ‘act justly and love mercy. By Barbara Williams-Skinner / RNS
Nikole Hannah-Jones, ‘1619 Project’ author, recalls struggles of attending Notre Dame. By Catherine M. Odell / NCR
Racial discrimination based on hair styles would be banned under bill. By Ella Lee / USA Today
HBCU students share angst and resilience at congressional hearing on bomb threats. By Donna M. Owens / NBC News
Alabama’s only Black member of Congress welcomes a fight over her voting rights bill. By Donna M. Owens / NBC News
Sen. Raphael Warnock On Evolution: ‘My Faith Has No Quarrel With Science. By Igor Bobic / HuffPost
US Black population: The biggest growth is in smaller cities. By Mike Schneider / AP and ABC News
Wells Fargo Rejected Half Its Black Applicants in Mortgage Refinancing Boom. By Shawn Donnan, Ann Choi, Hannah Levitt and Christopher Cannon /Bloomberg
Doctor who worked on COVID vaccine talks changing the game in science. By CBS News
Breonna Taylor’s Family, Supporters Sustain Push For Justice. By Piper Hudspeth Blackburn / HuffPost
Legalize It: Why Cannabis Reform Is A Civil Rights Issue. By Sen. Cory Booker / Huff Post
Are free buses a tool for social justice? Boston wants to find out. By Joanna Slater / Wash Post
Why Pew’s new study on Black Catholicism is critical for US church leaders. By Tia Noelle Pratt / NCR
Study: Christians, Jews and Muslims encounter workplace discrimination differently. By Alejandra Molina / RN
