National News
People of color face higher rental costs than Whites: Zillow. By Kristopher J. Brooks / ABC News
Legalized Pot Was Supposed to Help Build Black Wealth in Los Angeles. It Failed. By Amanda Chicago Lewis / The New Republic
Lawsuit Charges For-Profit University Preyed on Black and Female Students. By Erica L. Green / NYT
An Arizona power plant’s expansion galls environmentalists — and sows dread in a Black enclave. By Jon Schuppe / NBC News
After meeting 17 years ago, sisters now helm the country’s largest Black-owned wine brand. By Randi Richardson / NBC News
Chicago church’s plan to fast from ‘whiteness’ for Lent gets pushback. By Emily McFarian Miller / Religion News Service
War in Ukraine is testing some American evangelicals’ support for Putin as a leader of conservative values. Melani McAlister / The Conversation
‘A Womanist Theology of Worship’ reclaims communal and spiritual authority through African legacies. By Diana L. Hayes / NCR
‘Blackness Deserves a Seat at the Seder.’ By Kayla Stewart / NYT
Rihanna embodies the sacrament of pregnant joy. By Nicole Symmonds / NCR
Ketanji Brown Jackson and the color blind society of Martin Luther King Jr. By Bev Freda Jackson / The Conversation
It’s Bennie Thompson’s Moment to Defend Democracy. By Grace Segers / The New Republic
Federal Judge Strikes Down Portions Of Racist Florida Election Law. By Brandan Farrington / HuffPost
What Can Biden Do Now to Protect the Ballot? We Asked Eric Holder and Six Other Voting Rights Experts / By The New Republic
Milwaukee Chooses First Black Elected Mayor in 176 Years. By Cavalier Johnson / The Root
Amir Locke: No charges will be filed in fatal police shooting. By Omar Jimenez and Brad Parks / CNN
How Chris Smalls built a labor movement that led to Amazon workers’ first union. By Andrea Hsu and Alina Selyukh / NPR
Black and Hispanic seniors are left with a less powerful flu vaccine. By Arthur Allen / Wash Post
Latinos have many skin tones. Colorism means they’re treated differently. By Rachel Hatzipanagos / Wash Post
Nigeria-Born Tope Awotona Poured His Life Savings Into Calendly. Now He’s One Of America’s Wealthiest Immigrants. By Amy Feidman / Forbes
Young Black Catholics are still here and flourishing more than their peers. By Josh Packard Byron / Religion News
Churches played an active role in slavery and segregation. Some want to make amends. By Michela Moscufo / NBC News
A slaveholding president’s estate faces a modern racial controversy. By The Editorial Board / Wash Post
Ancestral Land In Virginia Returned To Rappahannock Tribe. By Sebastian Murdock / HuffPost
A historic all-Black town wants reparations to rebuild as a ‘safe haven.’ By Emmanuel Felton / Wash Post
Racism as Theory: A Historiography of White Supremacy Ideology. By Bala James Baptiste / AAIHS
