National News
Is racism a big problem? Black and white Americans don’t agree. By Phillip M. Bailey and Terry Collins / USA Today
Education Secretary Rips Loan-Forgiven Republicans After College Debt Ruling. By Ben Blanchet / HuffPost
State of Inequality: How deeply does our health care system discriminate? By Mark Kreidler / Daily Kos
He crushed the bar exam, but the legal profession remains disproportionately White. By Meron Moges-Gerbi / CNN
What Will It Really Take To Address The Crisis Of Missing And Murdered Native Americans? By Sage Howard / HuffPost
Mississippi Capitol Police changes rules on use of force after shootings. By Jon Schuppe / NBC News
An unlikely provocateur, Miss Texas, takes on the state’s GOP leaders. By Molly Hennessy-Fiske / Wash Post
Notes on faith: Can the U.S. be saved? The Black prophetic voice holds the hope of true liberation / The Grio
Black Catholics react to Supreme Court affirmative action decision. By Nate Tinner-Williams / NCR
California slavery reparations task force sends final report to uncertain fate in Legislature. By Jermy B. White and Sejal Govindarag /Politico
Benjamin E. Mays – Champions of Civil and Human Rights in South Carolina. A Digital Exhibition by the Department of Oral History at the University of South Carolina
Christine King Farris, sister of Dr. Martin Luther King, dies at 95. By Devon M. Sayers and Justin Gamble / CNN
The Supreme Court struck down admissions programs at Harvard and the University of North Carolina that used race in college admissions Thursday.
Supreme Court affirmative action ruling could widen college racial gap. By Meredith Kolodner / USA Today
Supreme Court Rejects Theory That Would Have Transformed American Elections. By Adam Liptak / NYT
A year after Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision, Black women still struggle for access to reproductive health care. By Kimala Price / The Conversation
Republican voters grow more excited about Trump after his indictment. By Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story
Most Say Racial, Ethnic Discrimination A Significant Cause Of Political Divide: Poll. By Cheyanne M. Daniels / The Hill
Susan Lorincz: Prosecutor says there’s ‘insufficient evidence’ for murder charge against woman who shot her Black neighbor. By Shawn Nottingham and Zoe Sottile / CNN
The fight for Asian American studies in colleges gains ground. By Meena Venkataramanan / Wash Post
St. Louis Is the Struggling Downtown You Haven’t Heard Of — and Right-Wing Policies Are Making Things Worse. By Kevin McDermott / NYT
As the election cycle cranks up, Christians need to call out white Christian nationalism. By Kelly Brown Douglas and Bryan N. Massingale / RNS
Southern Baptists Want To Change Their Name, But Their Oppressive Legacy Will Remain. By Warren J. Blumenfeld / LGBTQ Nation
Unitarian Universalism revisits identity, values at 2023 gathering. By Kathryn Post / RNC
Slavery’s descendants: America’s family secret. By Reuters and NBC News
A Brief History of Affirmative Action and the Assault on Race-Conscious Admissions. By Wil Del Pilar / The Education Trust
