National News
A Kennedy Ally Puts Money Into a Push to Recall Karen Bass. By Theodore Schleifer and Laurel Rosenhall / NYT
How Black leaders are taking on Trump. By Perry Bacon Jr. / Wash Post
The Moral Cost of Murdering Ukraine. By Russell Moore / Christianity Today
Faith Leaders Blast GOP’s Attacks on Poor and Tax Cuts for the Rich. By Jessica Corbett / Common Dreams
Trump’s Christian Nationalists are targeting those the Bible is most worried about. By Liz Theoharris / AlterNet
How the Study of Slavery Has Shaped the Academy. By Scott Spillman / Chronicle of Higher Ed.
Trump, by Any Means Necessary. By David Frum / The Atlantic
The war on DEI is an old American story. By Colbert I. King / Wash Post
MSNBC’s Death Rattle. By Dave Zirin / The Nation
The First Black Leader of Virginia Military Institute Is Ousted. By Stephanie Saul / NYT
Trump officials start dismantling civil rights offices, as part of DOGE’s secret plan. By Julian Mark, Hannah Natanson and Danielle Abril / Wash Post
RFK Jr.’s Mental Health Bait and Switch. By Erin Reinhart / TNR
Neo-Nazis targeted a majority-Black town. Locals launched an armed watch. By Daniel Wu / Wash Post
Black Leaders on Why They’ve Turned Against Eric Adams. By Jeffery C. Mays / NYT
A Tale of Two Christianities. By Jeanne Petrolle / Patheos
Documentary highlights the tensions, isolation of being ‘Black + Evangelical.’ By Adelle M. Banks / RNS
Historic Black churches receive $8.5 million in preservation grants. By Adelle M. Banks / RNS
The Broken Promise of ‘40 Acres and a Mule.’ By Sho Baraka / Christianity Today
Lifelong New York civil rights advocate, NAACP leader Hazel Dukes dies at 92. By Sejal Govindarao / ABC News
The Truth of a Love Supreme. By Justin Giboney / Christianity Today
Why Is Lester Holt Leaving NBC Nightly News? What We Know About His Exit — and Other Networks’ Recent Reshuffling. By Rebecca Aizin / People
How ‘DEI’ replaced ‘structural racism’ in the national conversation. By Erika Franklin Fowler and Neil Lewis Jr / ABC News
The Department of Education Threatens to Pull the Plug on Colleges. By Sonja B. Starr / NYT
Dan Bongino tapped as FBI deputy director. Who is he? By Rachel Treisman / NPR
Trump and Hegseth’s Pentagon purge undermines the armed forces. By Max Boot / Wash Post
US white supremacist groups emboldened with ‘ethnic and racial hatred’ as Trump stokes immigration fears. By Stephen Starr / The Guardian
