National News
Tennessee Arrests Klan Leader on Same Day It Honors 1st Grand Wizard. By Michael Daly / Yahoo News
More Mothers Are Dying. It Doesn’t Have to Be This Way. By Veronica Gillspie-Bell / NYT
Robert Smith’s Latest Deal Just Made Him $4.6 Billion Richer. By Jasmine Browley / Essence
How Confederate migration spread white supremacy in the West. By Todd A. Price / USA Today
This 93-year-old Hilton Head woman is in a legal battle for land her family has owned since the Civil War. By Nicquel Terry Ellis / CNN
The little-known publisher who tutored Hubert Humphrey about racism. By Samuel G. Freedman / Andscape
GOP state attorneys general shift affirmative action battle lines to the workplace. By Wyatte Grantham-Phillips and Geoff Mulvhill / PBS
How the myth of a ‘model minority’ works to divide Americans. By Theodore R. Johnson / Wash Post
The Next Battle Over Colorblindness Has Begun. By Sonya B. Starr / NYT
This Is One Republican Strategy That Isn’t Paying Off. By Thomas B. Edsall / NYT
Top donors, souring on DeSantis, start looking at Tim Scott. By Sally Goldenberg and Natalie Allison / Politico
Tommy Tuberville, a US Senator in 2023, Has Only Just Come Around to the Idea That White Supremacists Are Racist. By Caleb Ecarma / Vanity Fair
Biden’s pick to lead Joint Chiefs tangles with GOP at Senate hearing. By Dan Lamothe / Wash Post
Black men are at an increased risk for melanoma, study finds. By Claretta Bellamy / NBC News
For too many Christians, the lines between dominionism, nationalism and fascism are blurred. By Karen Swallow Prior / RNS
Mormon leaders – whose church is often associated with the GOP – push back against one-party politics. By David Campbell / The Convesation
Why We Shouldn’t Lose Faith in Organized Religion. By Tish Harrison Warren / NYT
America’s back-and-forth struggle toward equality continues. By Jim Jones / The Hill
The West’s water system is grappling with a racist past and hotter future. By Lauren Sommer / NPR
The Supreme Court didn’t end affirmative action for white people. By Fabiola Cineas / Vox
He Worked for Years to Overturn Affirmative Action and Finally Won. He’s Not Done. By Lulu Garcia-Navarro / NYT
Campus Diversity Will Be a Struggle Without Race-Based Admissions, History Shows. By Elaine S. Povich / Yahoo News
Harvard and other ‘Ivy Plus’ colleges are failing low-income students, Goldman Sachs says—but underfunded HBCUs don’t. By Paolo Confino / Fortune and Yahoo News
14 promises Donald Trump has made in his campaign for a second term. By Abby Turner / CNN
Exonerated member of ‘Central Park Five’ wins primary for NYC Council seat. By Bobby Caina Calvan / AP and ABC News
If we avoid a recession, we can thank Black and Hispanic workers. By Heather Long / Wash Post
