National News
Politically diverse congregations are getting rarer. One aims to endure. By Michelle Boorstein / Wash Post
His Father Bankrupted the Klan. Now He’s Going to Congress to Continue the Fight. By Brandon Tensley / Capital B
The US Has Deported Immigrants En Masse Before. Here’s What Happened. By Ali Bianco / Politico
Richard Parsons, Serial Fixer of Media and Finance Giants, Dies at 76. By Benjamin Mullin / NYT
Family genealogy: For Black Americans, search offers trials, rewards. By Marc Ramirez / USA Today
Former President Jimmy Carter Dies At 100. By Paige Lavender, Kurt Heine, and Sanjana Karanth / HuffPost
The Real Reason Why Americans Approve of Trump’s Disastrous Transition. By Michael Tomasky / The New Republic
Trump Picks Herschel Walker to Be Ambassador to the Bahamas. By Chris Cameron / NYT
Fears for civil rights as Trump taps Maga darling for key justice department role. By George Chidi / The Guardian
Kamala Harris grapples with her future in a wounded Democratic Party. By Ashley Parker and Maeve Reston / Wash Post
What Luigi Mangione and Daniel Penny Are Telling Us About America. By Caleb Brennan / The Nation
Racism is a public health issue. Here’s why. By Cara Anthony, Hannah Chinn, Emily Kwong and Rebecca Ramirez / NPR
Critical Race Theory Will Continue To Be Attacked — So Read These 8 Empowering Books By Black Authors. By Shanita Hubbard / HuffPost
Black Student Enrollment at Harvard Law Drops by More Than Half. By Stephanie Saul and Anemona Hartocollis / NYT
The Catholic Church must learn hospitality to stem ‘Black exodus.’ By Tamika Royes / NCR
Reversing the “weaponization of Christianity”: How “religous freedom” can be used to fight Trumpism. By Chauncey Devega / Salon
Professor’s Research on ‘Sundown Towns’ Teaches About Racism. by Dierre Hartman / Capital B
Trump Has Little Room for Error. By Jamelle Bouie / NYT
What Trump Really Means When He Threatens To Deport Americans. By Roque Planas / HuffPost
In Ohio, an immigrant community prepares for Trump’s crackdown. By Joanna Slater / Wash Post
What Was the Biggest Factor in Kamala Harris’s Defeat? By Isabella M. Weber and Elie Mystal / The Nation
Aggrieved white men are a threat to democracy — history tells us we can’t ignore them. By Bernd Reiter / Salon
Biden Appoints 40 Black Women as Federal Judges, Breaking Record. By Christina Carrega / Capital B
‘A huge regression’: Walmart’s DEI rollback incites new racial equity push. By Michael Sainato / The Guardian
We interviewed 30 Black public school teachers in Philadelphia to understand why so many are leaving the profession. By Lynnette Mawhinney and Leana Cabral / The Conversation
Why Black women are being told to speak up during and after childbirth. By Elizabeth Cohen / Wash Post
