National News
Worry less about TikTok and Bin Laden — fret more that Mike Johnson shares the terrorist’s view. By Amanda Marcotte / Salon
A new report warns that DeSantis’ private army is a potential hotbed of extremism. By Hunter / Daily Kos
Dexter Wade, buried alone in Mississippi, finally gets the funeral he was denied. By Jon Schuppe and Mike Hixenbaugh / NBC News
Childhood Cancer Death Rates Have Stalled For Black Youth. By Shannon Dawson / Newsone
Black Administrative Politics and the Question of the US State. By Frances O’Shaughnessy / AAIHS
How the Voting Rights Act, Newly Challenged, Has Long Been Under Attack. By Nick Corasaniti / NYT
Nikole Hannah Jones’ ‘Democracy Summit’ rings the alarm about rising threats. By Gerren Keith Gaynor / The Grio
Why Georgia Republicans Are Protecting the D.A. Who Indicted Trump. By Richard Fausset / NYT
The Supreme Court should have heeded Ketanji Brown Jackson’s wisdom. By George F. Will / Wash Post
Harvard Report Shows Significant Drop in Black Student Enrollment. By Atiya Jordan / Black Enterprise
Lung cancer survival rates have risen, but data show racial inequality. By Sabrina Malhi / Wash Post
Howard University’s New President, Using His Unique Background for Unique Times at ‘The Mecca.’ By Nigel Roberts / Bet.com
Advertisers Flee X as Outcry Over Musk’s Endorsement of Antisemitic Post Grows. By Ryan Mac, Brooks Barnes and Tiffany Hsu / NYT
How Reconstruction Created American Public Education. By Adam Harris / The Atlantic
Should Frederick Douglass be posed in a rap squat? Descendants say no. By Petuyla Dvorak / Wash Post
The urgent need for a truth and healing commission on Indian boarding schools. By Bridget Moix / RNS
The Supreme Court blew a chance to fix its second-worst decision ever. By George F. Will / Wash Post
Why We Have to Reckon With the Real Malcolm X. By Peniel E. Joseph / NYT
The Sermons I Needed to Hear Right Now. The Ezra Klein Show / NYT Podcast (Image ABC News)
HBCU Grad Makes History as First Black President Of The Academy of Physicians in Clinical Research. By Black News
Dozens of Black soldiers were sentenced to life or hanged after the 1917 ‘Houston Riot.’ The Army has now overturned their convictions. By The Grio Staff
New museum honors untold stories of enslaved Africans through genealogy. By Anne Azzi Davenport and Geoff Bennett / PBS
Maria W. Stewart and a Womanist Theological Tradition. By Amber M. Neal-Stanley / AAIHS
The Social Gospel movement is changing our politics and reshaping our perspectives. It has nothing to do with whiteness or nationalism. By John Blake
Mike Johnson’s “biblical” economics: Using Christian nationalism to “enhance plutocratic wealth.” By Chauncey Devega / Salon
A Black Woman’s Rise in Architecture Shows How Far Is Left to Go. By Jane Margolies / NYT
