National News
Birmingham civil rights history: The backstory behind the famous photo of Walter Gadsden, officer Dick Middleton, and his police dog. By Joshua Clark Davis / Slate
Expert: US has long history of silencing Black officials and disenfranchising their constituents. By Rodney Coates / Salon
Attacks on ‘segregated’ graduation ceremonies overlook the history of racism on campus. By Crystal Garcia and Antonio Duran
DeSantis signs bill to defund DEI programs at Florida’s public colleges. By Jack Stripling / Wash Post
One very rich billionaire bought Supreme Court and made himself richer. By Joan McCarter / Daily Kos
White Supremacy Is The ‘Most Dangerous Terrorist Threat,’ Biden Tells Howard Grads. By Sara Boboltz / HuffPost
CNN should have learned from Fox News: Pandering to Trump will cost bigly. By Heather Digby Parton / Salon
Texas mall shooter’s ‘neo-Nazi ideation’ shocks Latino community. By Silvia Foster-Frau / Wash Post
Biden announces two historic nominations to Fed board. By Rachel Siegel / Wash Post
Feds Deem Black Community’s Waste System a Civil Rights Violation. By Katie Myers / Mother Jones
Chicago auxiliary bishop named chairman of U.S. bishops’ anti-racism committee. By Gina Christian / NCR
The Religious Landscape is Undergoing Massive Change. It Could Decide the 2024 Election. By Ryan Burge / Politico
Black Women’s Resistance in Slave Rebellions. By Asia Thomas Uzomba / AAIHS
He Called for His Mother. By Lottie Joiner / The Nation
MLK’s famous criticism of Malcolm X was a ‘fraud,’ author finds. By Gillian Brockell / Wash Post
Clarence Thomas, Harlan Crow And The Original Meaning Of Corruption. By Paul Blumenthal / HuffPost
Texas gunman fantasized over race wars on social media before mass killing. By Jack Douglas , Tim Craig, Alex Horton, Hannah Allam, and Brittany Shammas / Wash Post
Under the Radar, Right-Wing Push to Tighten Voting Laws Persists. By Nick Corasaniti and Alexandra Berzon / NYT
Senate panel asks Crow for full accounting of gifts to Thomas, other justices. By Liz Goodwin and Marianne LeVine / Wash Post
As Politicians Target Higher Ed’s Diversity Efforts, HBCU Students Worry About Their Campuses. By Kyla Hubbard / Chronicle of Higher Ed
Report: 600,000 Fewer Black Students Enrolled in US Colleges vs 20 Years Ago. By Brett Peveto / Public News Service
Five things to know about a major new Pew poll of Asians in the U.S. By Joe Hernandez / NPR
For Black Americans, the pandemic spike in fentanyl deaths was decades in the making. By Krista Mahr / Politico
The Revolutionary Language of Black Abolitionists. By Frank Kalisik / AAIHS
A Philosopher and a Slaver, but No Longer a Name on a Library. By Ed O’Loughlin / NYT
CORE and the Early Civil Rights Movement in Los Angeles. By M. Keith Claybrook Jr. / AAIHS
