National News
Why Fani Willis was allowed to stay on as prosecutor of criminal case against Trump in Georgia – and what happens next. By Ronald S. Sullivan Jr. / The Conversation
America’s Largest Minority Is Also Its Most Misunderstood. By Marie Arana / NYT
The Crumbleys Have Been Convicted. Black Parents Will Likely Pay a Price, Too. By Nia T. Evans / Mother Jones
Rankin County, Mississippi: ‘Goon Squad’ leader and another deputy sentenced for torture of two Black men. Four other ex-officers still face sentencing. By Emma Tucker, Ryan Young, Jade Gordon and Shawn Nottingham / CNN
Walter Massey, a Physicist With a Higher Calling. By Katrina Miller / NYT
Poll: Most Americans say religion’s influence is waning, and half think that’s bad. By Jack Jenkins / RNS
Decoding Project 2025’s Christian Nationalist language. By Andra Watkins / Salon
The Exvangelicals Searching for Political Change. By Sarah Jones / The New Republic
The Dichotomy of Enslaved Women’s Work in the Antebellum South. By O.G. McClinton, III / AAIHS
How Virginia Used Segregation Law to Erase Native Americans. By Ashley R. Craig and Gregory D. Smithers / Time
The Buffalo Soldier Who Ordered An Artillery Barrage On His Own Position To Save His Comrades. By Samantha Franco / War History
Black twin sisters buy Woodland Plantation, site of the largest US uprising of enslaved people. By Lottie L. Joiner / HuffPost
How the Black female head of a top D.C. school was ‘punished for leading.’ By Shirley Moody-Turner / Wash Post
Don’t Think of It as a Contest Between Biden and Trump. By Jamelle Bouie / NYT
On Campaign Trail In Ohio, Trump Warns Of ‘Bloodbath’ If He Loses In November. By Meg Kinnard and Jill Colvin / HuffPost
Unproven claims and ‘unprofessional’ witnesses: How judge arrived at DA Fani Willis ruling. By Josh Meyer / USA Today
Five Takeaways From Nikole Hannah-Jones’s Essay on the ‘Colorblindness’ Trap. By Nikole Hannah-Jones / NYT
Gov. Ron DeSantis’ war on ‘woke’ may be waning in Florida. By Greg Allen / NPR
Elon Musk Keeps Spreading a Very Specific Kind of Racism. By Arianna Coghill and Garrison Hayes / Mother Jones
$1 billion donation for free medical school may increase racial diversity – and save lives. By Jessica Faiz and Utibe R. Essien / USA Today
At National Prayer Breakfast, Biden speaks of praying, working for peace. By Adelle M. Banks / RNS
The Terrifying Christian Nationalist Crusade to Conquer America. By Chris Lehman / The Nation
My calling as a Christian minister: Stand up against evangelical hypocrisy. By Nathaniel Manderson / Salon
6 Side-By-Side Portraits Of Black Civil War Heroes And Their Direct Descendants. By Rokas Laurinavičius and Indrė Lukošiūtė / Boredpanda
Why a Native American Nation Is Challenging the U.S. Over a 1794 Treaty. By Grace Ashford / NYT
The Black Box of Race. By Henry Louis Gates Jr. / The Atlantic
