National News
GOP candidates skip Iowa’s only minority-focused forum. By Nnamdi Egwuonwu / NBC News
Voting Rights Act’s legal challenges to watch in 2024. By Hansi Lo Wang / NPR
How Mass Immigration Hurts Black Americans. By Roger House / The Daily Beast
Why New York Has Faltered in Making Childbirth Safer for Black Mothers. By Joseph Goldstein / NYT
Online racism is linked to PTSD symptoms in Black youth, study finds. By Claretta Bellamy / NBC News
Biden to visit Mother Emanuel AME Church as South Carolina primaries approach. By Adelle M. Banks / RNS
Famous Preacher T.D. Jakes Denies He Attended Sex Parties With Diddy / The Daily Beast.
How Trump Captured Iowa’s Religious Right. By Benjamin Wallace-Wells / The New Yorker
January 6th insurrection anniversary: Mike Johnson and the radical evangelical Christians who encouraged the Capitol riot. By Molly Olmstead / Slate
70 years after Brown vs. Board of Education, public schools still deeply segregated. By Erica Frankenberg / The Conversation
U.S. Mint Releases Coins Honoring Harriet Tubman. By Shruti Rajkumar / Huff Post
Is Trump Hell? By Maureen Dowd / NYT
Nikki Haley’s comment on the US civil war was no gaffe. By Sidney Blumenthal / The Guardian
Former Trump White House insiders call possible 2nd term a threat to American democracy. By Soo Rin Kim and Quinn Scanlan / ABC News
Biden Begins 2024 With Better Poll Numbers Than His Foes—and Fans—Recognize. By John Nichols / The Nation
Higher Education Wasn’t the Only Target of the Anti-Affirmative Action Movement. By Brandon Tensley / Capital B
Reparations gained historic momentum in 2023 because of California’s efforts. By Curtis Bunn / NBC News
Black American Solidarity With Palestinians Is Rising, Testing Longstanding Jewish Alliance. By Noreen Nasir and Aaron Morrison / HuffPost
Why proposed state-run court in majority-Black Mississippi city sparks controversy. By Kiara Alfonseca / ABC News
Half of Black D.C. residents lack easy access to health care, analysis shows. By Michael Brice-Saddler , Jenna Portnoy ,John D. Harden, and Janice Kai Chen / Wash Post
AMC apologizes to N.C. civil rights leader removed from ‘The Color Purple’ screening over seating issue. By Marlene Lenthang / NBC News
The Bible And Black People: A Torrid Love Affair. By Rev. Osagyefo Sekou / Newsone
What does Watch Night mean for Black Americans today? It dates back to the Emancipation Proclamation. By AP and RNS
They Changed Their Minds about Slavery and Left a Bible Record. By David Dangerfield and Ramon Jackson / Christianity Today
What the Civil War Was About. By Paul Krugman / NYT
An Appeal for Impartial Suffrage. By Frederick Douglas / The Atlantic JANUARY 1867 ISSUE
