National News
How evangelical Christian writer Jemar Tisby became a radioactive symbol of ‘wokeness.’ By Bob Smietana / RNS
How the practice of Nichiren Buddhism sustained Tina Turner for 50 years. By Ralph H. Craig III / The Conversation
Black people may have started Memorial Day. Whites erased it from history. By Donald Beaulieu / Wash Post
US Army Maj. Gen. George H. Thomas’ journey from enslaver to Union officer to civil rights defender. By Christopher Justin Einolf / The Conversation
How Greenwood Grew a Thriving Black Economy. By Victor Luckerson / NYT
The Defender and Chicago’s Built Environment. By Ray Dinsmore / AAIHS
Most Americans say colleges should be able to use affirmative action in admissions, but race should play a small role, new poll shows. By Collin Binkley, Emily Swanson and The AP / Fortune
Harris becomes first woman to deliver commencement address at West Point. By Jasmine Wright / CNN
Three years after Floyd’s death, a reckoning for Biden’s agenda on race. By Toluse Olorunnipa, Scott Clement and Emily Guskin / Wash Post
Why philanthropic funding strongly favors white colleges over HBCUs. By Marc Ramirez / USA Today
WH Plan To Combat Antisemitism Takes On Centuries Of Hatred, Discrimination And Lynching In America. By Pamela S. Nadell / TPM
How AI could be misused to persecute religious minorities worldwide. By David Curry / RNS
‘War by Other Means’ highlights 4 pacifists who resisted World War II. By Allyson Winter-Polman / NCR
O for a Thousand Tongues of Fire. By Hannah King / Christianity Today
Social Welfare and the Politics of Race in the Post-Civil War South. By Ryan W. Keating / AAIHS
Ultra Violence. By Nelson Lichtenstein / Dissent
“Education Leads to Liberation”: Nikole Hannah-Jones on The 1619 Project & Teaching Black History. Amy Goodman / Democracy Now
America’s strength is learning through history — not rewriting it. By Ken Chenault and Ken Frazier / Wash Post
Harlan Crow: Investigating my Clarence Thomas gifts is unconstitutional. By Mark Joseph Stern / Slate
‘We Cannot be Bullied’: Trump Seems Unfazed as His Legal Troubles Grow, But Fani Willis and Letitia James Are the Two Black Women Who Could Take Down the Former President. By Nyamekye Daniel / Atlanta Black Star
Black lawmakers in Texas criticize bill that seeks to ban DEI offices in higher education. By Nicole Chavez / CNN
Red States Are Now Weakening Child Labor Laws While Defunding Public Schools. By Glenn Daigon / The Progressive
Fewer Black, Latino and male students want to go to college, survey shows. By Edwin Flores / NBC News
A census mistake reveals surprising details about U.S. Hispanics and Latinos. By Andrew Van Dam / Wash Post
DeSantis’ deal with the devil: Chasing the Christian right won’t help him. By Heather Digby Parton / Salon
Republicans are trying to drown us in religion. By Kuro Kirjava / Daily Kos
