National News
Why Black Americans Searching for Their Roots Should Look to Angola. By John Eligon / NYT
Robert Dixon, Last Surviving Buffalo Soldier, Dies at 103. By Trip Gabriel / NYT
Tulsa’s First Black Mayor Says He Plans To Address The City’s Ugly History Head-On. By Phillip Jackson / HuffPost
How education in the US has been weaponised against Native Americans. By Madalyn J. Mann / The Conversation
The earliest known ‘country’ recording has been found. The singer? A Black man. By Geoff Edgers / Wash Post
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs Denied Bail By Third Judge As He Awaits Sex Trafficking Trial. By Larry Neumeister / HuffPost
Why American democracy will survive. By Eva Bellin and Kurt Weyland / Wash Post
Protecting The Black Radical Project: A Call For Courage, Unity And Discipline In 2025. By Eric Ward / NewsOne
What Explains Trumpism? By Stephen Crowley / The Nation
Kamala Harris Campaign Aides Suggest Campaign Was Just Doomed. By Arthur Delaney / HuffPost
Mexican President’s Harsh Takedown of Trump Exposes an Ugly MAGA Scam. By Greg Sargent / TNR
The Congressional Black Caucus’ record 62 members plan to fight Trump’s agenda. By Curtis Bunn / NBC News
Walmart becomes latest — and biggest — company to roll back its DEI policies. By AP and NPR
Facing Legal Threats, Colleges Back Off From Race-Based Programs. By Laura Pappano and Joanna Hou / The Nation
How Systemic Racism Impacts Breast Cancer Outcomes for Black Women. By Bayo Curry-Winchell / She Knows
Florida Woman Who Fatally Shot Black Neighbor Gets 25 Years in Prison. By Annie Correal / NYT
The ‘Christian Nation-ist’ Set To Take Control Of The Federal Government. By Josh Kovensky / TPM
Christian vote, especially Catholics, critical to Trump’s historic win. By Elyse Apel / Justthenews
Gospel-focused racial reconciliation in the Deep South. By Debbie Elliott / NPR
How the first Pilgrims and the Puritans differed in their views on religion and respect for Native Americans. By Michael Carrafiello / The Conversation
That Time Mississippi Reinvented Slavery With Its ‘Black Codes.’ By Erik Loomis / Wonkette
America Has Done Mass Deportation Before. By Eric Foner / The Nation
Trump’s Cabinet Picks Threaten Black Americans’ Rights and Safety. By Brandon Tensley / Capital B News
Trump’s plan to dismantle DEI on day one is a “colorblind” path to Jim Crow 2.0. By Shari Dunn / Salon
Kamala Harris had a whirlwind 107-day campaign. What’s next for her? By David Smith / The Guardian
Is Progressive Journalism Being Systematically Destroyed? By Thom Hartmann
