National News
Is Texas Sending Melissa Lucio to Die for a Crime That Never Happened? By Liliana Segur and Jordan Smith / The Intercept
Home prices could soar another 20% this year, but Black families are struggling to benefit. By Nicole Bachaud / CNN
Can the Christian right quit Putin? By Molly Olmstead / Slate
New Netflix docuseries ‘jeen-yuhs’ chronicles Kanye West’s belief in God and himself. By Emily McFarlan Mille / NCR
The African American Origins of Modern Asylum. By Sean Gallagher / AAIHS
He Joined the Attica Prison Uprising. He Hopes a New Documentary Can Set the Record Straight. By Eamon Whalen / Mother Jones
Panicked White People Tried To Ban Books In The ’80s, Too — With Jerry Falwell Leading The Way. By Fred L. Pincus / TPM
Fighting back against CRT panic: Educators organize around the threat to academic freedom. By Kathryn Joyce / Salon
“We’re very concerned:” Black voters fear changes to Georgia voting laws. By Janelle Griffith / NBC News
Report: Black people are still killed by police at a higher rate than other groups. By Curtis Bunn / NBC News
Members of Congress highlight missing minority women, girls. By Susan Montoya Bryan / AP and ABC News
Eric DeValkenaere: Former Kansas City police officer sentenced to 6 years for killing a Black man during a 2019 traffic incident. By Andy Rose and Aya Elamroussi / CNN
How the Catholic Church can better serve the Black community this Lent. By Tevin Williams / NCR
Andrew Young, at 90, views his civic, political roles ‘as a pastorate.’ By Adelle M. Banks / RNS
First Black Univ. of Alabama student dies days after building named for her. By AP and NPR
Mary McLeod Bethune, civil rights pioneer, advised presidents on ‘the problems of my people.’ By DeNeen L. Brown / Wash Post
How the Mainstream Movement Against Gender-Based Violence Fails Black Workers and Survivors. By Madison Pauly / Mother Jones
‘So Much Hatred’: Jury Foreman Shaken by Evidence in Arbery Trial. By Richard Fausset and Tariro Mzezewa / NYT
For Black Americans, living longer impacts health and wealth. By Kristopher J. Brooks / CBS News
House passes bill making lynching a federal hate crime. By Cristina Marcos / The Hill
Meet entrepreneurs of color building Tulsa’s former Black Wall Street into hot, new tech hub. By Catherine Thorbecke and Samara Lynn / ABC News
How to be an Ignatian anti-racist this Lent. By Matt Kappadakunnel / NCR
King Center class on how MLK’s nonviolence philosophy remains viable today. By Elliott C MClaughlin / CNN
My Family Lost Our Farm During Japanese Incarceration. I Went Searching for What Remains. By Ruth Chizuko Murai / Mother Jones
Civil rights leaders of 1961 about resisting injustice today. By Mike Thompson / USA Today
Let’s Talk About the Taking of Black Land. By Eli Mystal / The Nation
