National 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
What It Means to Be a Texan Is Changing in Surprising Ways. By J. David Goodman, Edgar Sandoval and Robert Gebeloff / NYT
Inside Tribal Leaders’ Call To Action To Address The Fentanyl Crisis. By Ian Kumamoto / HuffPost
This school tried to keep kids safe. Then graduation ended in gunfire. By Sabby Robinson , Hannah Natanson and Moriah Balingit / Wash Post
How inheritance data secretly explains U.S. inequality. By Andrew Van Dam / Wash Post
Poor men south of Richmond? Why much of the rural South is in economic crisis. By Peter A. Cocianis and Louis M. Kyriakoudes / The Conversation
SCOTUS Rejects Appeal For Man Who Spent Years In Solitary Confinement Without Exercise. By Taiyler S. Mitchell / HuffPost
Overturning Roe Changed Everything. Overturning Affirmative Action Did Not. By Thomas B. Edsall / NYT
Black voters showed their power in 2023. Here’s what it means for 2024. By Sudiksha Kochi / USA Today
Less than a quarter of Asian Americans support either Haley or Ramaswamy, new poll finds. By Sakshi Venkatraman / NBC News
Tim Scott’s Run For President Was Never Real, And Neither Was He. By Stephen A. Crockett / HuffPost
How Trump and His Allies Plan to Wield Power in 2025. By Jonathan Swan, Maggie Haberman and Charlie Savage / NYT
Republicans Are Fighting a War on Democracy All Over America. By David Rothkopf / Daily Beast
How the Negro Spiritual Changed American Popular Music – and America Itself. By Vann R. Newkirk II / The Atlantic
The Joe Biden Re-election Dilemma. By Charles M. Blow / NYT
South Carolina natives Nikki Haley and Tim Scott’s complicated history on display as they battle for GOP nomination. ByAbby Cruz, Gabriella Abdul-Hakim, and Nicholas Kerr / ABC News
Media must stop overcorrecting for too much Trump exposure: The public needs a closer look at him. By Heather Digby Parton / Salon
A guide to the friends and patrons of Clarence and Ginni Thomas. By Shawn Boburg / Wash Post
Advocates helped rally Black voters in MS. Then came ballot shortages. Deborah Barfield Berry, Sudiksha Kochi and Charlie Drape / USA Today
Voters drub Moms for Liberty ‘parental rights’ candidates at the ballot. By Valerie Strauss / Wash Post
