National News
In the GOP Civil War Over Immigration, Both Sides Are Racists. By Jeet Heer / The Nation
Tim Scott becomes longest-serving Black senator in US history. By Beatrice Peterson / ABC News
Soaring Application Numbers Suggest Historically Black Colleges Are Still in Vogue. By Declan Bradley / Chronicle of Higher Ed.
After every election, I turn to Tolstoy. By Julian DeShazier / The Christian Century
Biden awards Denzel Washington, Magic Johnson and Fannie Lou Hamer with Presidential Medal of Freedom. By Gerren Keith Gaynor / The Grio
Biden to create two national monuments in California honoring tribes. By Maxine Joselow / Wash Post
Pay attention: There’s a second civil rights movement. By Juan Williams / Wash Post
Donald Trump Is The New Republic’s 2024 Scoundrel of the Year. By Alex Shephard / The New Republic
Elon Musk’s X Endgame. By Ali Breland / The Atlantic
‘The first to sue’: Opposing Trump’s desire to end birthright citizenship is personal for this attorney general. By Lawrence Hurley / NBC News
Indians Are Getting a Crash Course On America’s Racism. By Adebayo Adeniran / MSN
After Trump’s Win, More Black Americans Are Leaving for Mexico. by Adam Mahoney / Capital B
The Story of One Mississippi County Shows How Private Schools Are Exacerbating Segregation. By Jenifer Berry Hawes / ProPublica
Homelessness Crisis Worsens: Black Americans Disproportionately Affected Amid Housing Affordability Decline. By Daniel Johnson / Black Enterprise
Late-stage breast cancer is rising, especially among Black women: Study. B Liz Neporent and Dr. Esther Zusstone / ABC News
A Look At The First ForbesBLK 50 List. Jabari Young / Forbes
For some Latinos, ‘prosperity gospel’ led them to Trump. By Michelle Boorstein / Wash Post
The Catholic Church should canonize these worthy Black Americans. By Daryl Grigsby / NCR
Politically diverse congregations are getting rarer. One aims to endure. By Michelle Boorstein / Wash Post
His Father Bankrupted the Klan. Now He’s Going to Congress to Continue the Fight. By Brandon Tensley / Capital B
The US Has Deported Immigrants En Masse Before. Here’s What Happened. By Ali Bianco / Politico
Richard Parsons, Serial Fixer of Media and Finance Giants, Dies at 76. By Benjamin Mullin / NYT
Family genealogy: For Black Americans, search offers trials, rewards. By Marc Ramirez / USA Today
Former President Jimmy Carter Dies At 100. By Paige Lavender, Kurt Heine, and Sanjana Karanth / HuffPost
The Real Reason Why Americans Approve of Trump’s Disastrous Transition. By Michael Tomasky / The New Republic
Trump Picks Herschel Walker to Be Ambassador to the Bahamas. By Chris Cameron / NYT
