National News
HBCU Medical Schools Growing in Number. By B. Denise Hawkins / Diverse Issues In Higher Ed
Churches must lead development in Black communities — if they want it to get done. By Quentin E. Primo / RNS
Women at the first March on Washington: a secretary, a future bishop and a marshal. By Adelle M. Banks / RNS
Using Frederick Douglass to Rationalize Slavery? In Florida, Yes! By Charles M. Blow / NYT
African American Studies course will be offered in Little Rock School district for college credit, school board decides. By Jamiel Lynch / CNN
How GOP lawmakers are pushing for Confederate monuments to be (legally) set in stone. By Abhinav S. Krishman / USA Today
The Man Who Made the Suburbs White. By Mark Dent / Slate
Morgan Freeman Shines Long-Overdue Spotlight On Black War Heroes In New Documentary. By Jazmin Tolliver / HuffPost
Trump Is Constitutionally Prohibited From the Presidency. By J. Michael Luttig and Laurence H. Tribe / The Atlantic
The Promise of Justice in Fani Willis’s Indictment. By Joan Walsh / The Nation
The Trump Classified Documents Judge Is No ‘Wise Latina.’ By Raul A Reyes / The Hill
Affirmative Action May Be Dead—But the Battle over Race and Admissions Is Just Getting Started. By Pema Levy / Mother Jones
It’s Not Your Father’s Democratic Party. But Whose Party Is It? By Thomas B. Edsall / NYT
Latinos are the biggest ethnic group in Texas, but their political power lags behind. By Ashley Lopez / NPR
North Korea says U.S. soldier was sick of ‘unequal American society.’ By Min Joo Kim / Wash Post
Arkansas Education Department won’t allow credit for AP African American Studies course. By Char Adams / NBC News
Mississippi officers plead guilty after torturing Black men with stun guns and sex toy. By Curtis Bunn and The Associated Press / NBC News
35 Times Benjamin Crump Fought For Justice. By Kalyn Womack / The Root
The ‘World’s Happiest Man’ Shares His Three Rules for Life. By David Marchese / NYT
At Indigenous Seminary, Students Learn the Power of Faith Embedded in Identity. By Hannah McClellan / CT
Progressive National Baptists gain partners to address voting rights, gun violence. By Adelle M. Banks / RNS
Georgia Indictment Lessons From the South’s History of Democratic Decay. By Anthony Michael Krels / NYT
On The Anniversary of Michael Brown, Other Protests to Remember. By Jessica Washington / The Root
Revealing the Smithsonian’s Racial Brain Collection. By Nicole Dungca and Claire Healy / Wash Post
What happened when an Ohio school district rushed to integrate classrooms. By Laura Meckler / Wash Post
Fani Willis, the Georgia prosecutor who is taking on Trump. By Mariana Alfaro ,Holly Bailey and Tom Hamburger / Wash Post
