National News
History of The Crisis: “A Record of the Darker Races.” By the NAACP
Biden steps up efforts to reach voters of color. By Julia Mueller / The Hill
Who brought the crime, the drugs and the rape? It was him. By Kirk Swearingen / Salon
Alvin Bragg’s Case Against Trump: Four Things to Know. By Kim Wehle / The Bulwark
Republicans Who Do Not Regularly Watch Fox Are Less Likely to Back Trump. By Ruth Igielnik / NYT
The Supreme Court Is Playing a Dangerous Game. By Jamelle Bouie / NYT
Mar-A-Lago prayer event labels Trump voters’ ‘only Catholic option’. By Brian Fraga / NCR
The Great Rupture in American Jewish Life. By Peter Beinart / NYT
Biden’s Muslim American judicial nominee threatened by smear campaign. By Yonat Shimron / RNS
A Florida Community Faces Erasure. Residents Are Honoring Its History. By Aallyah Wright / Capital B
When Segregation Prevailed in the US, Boys Town May Have Been Nation’s First Integrated Community. By Henry Cordes / Omaha World-Herald
Elon Musk Is Preoccupied With Something He Doesn’t Understand. By Jamelle Bouie / NYT
Radicalized by the right: Elon Musk puts his conspiratorial thinking on display for the world to see. By Oliver Darcy / CNN
Presidential Historian: Trump Actually Doing ‘Us All A Favor’ With Fascist Rhetoric. By Lee Moran / HuffPost
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
