National News
Fred Gray set to receive American Bar Association’s highest honor. By Cody D. Short / Birmingham RT News
New poll shows racial issues divide Americans. But people of faith can help unite us. By Audrey Price / USA Today
My Church Was Part of the Slave Trade. This Has Not Shaken My Faith. By Rachel L. Swarns / NYT
Should White Christians Celebrate Juneteenth? By Chuck Mingo / RNS
The families enslaved by the Jesuits, then sold to save Georgetown. By Rachel L. Swarns / Wash Post
Who was Fort Bragg named after? The South’s worst, most hated general. By Ronald G. Shafer / Wash Post
Celebrating Racial Justice and Equality on Juneteenth. By Alaysia Hackett / The Progressive
A Grad Student Found the Largest Known Slave Auction in the U.S. By Jennifer Berry Hawes / Propublica
Denmark Vesey Revolt: How House Slaves Betrayed Their Own. By D.L. Chandler / Newsone
Reparations debate: Mending the past, forging the future. By Peter Grier / Christian Science Monitor
Gorsuch echoes ‘woke’ historians in railing against injustices. By Lawrence Hurley / NBC News
Bill Cosby sued by 9 more women in Nevada for alleged decades-old sexual assaults. By AP and ABC News
One Man’s Foray Into the Heartland of the Far Right. By Joseph O’Neill / NYT
Race and immigration issues to watch for 2024 Republican presidential candidates. By Ashley Lopez / NPR
Rep. Bowman looks to 2024 for health equity legislation. By Daniel Payne / Politico
Cornel West Wants to Run for President With Green Party, Ditches People’s Party. By Chris Hippensteel / Daily Beast
Ajike Owens Funeral: Sharpton Rips DeSantis Silence On Shooting. By Bruce C.T. Wright / Newsone
Investigation launched after 11-year-old who called 911 for help is shot by officer in Mississippi. By Antonio Planas and Lindsey Pipia / NBC News
Hampton University Establishes School of Religion. By Arrman Kyaw / Diverse Issues In Higher Ed.
Left Out of Pat Robertson’s Obits: His Crazy, Antisemitic Conspiracy Theory. By David Corn / Mother Jones
Southern Baptists Move to Purge Churches With Female Pastors. By Elizabeth Dias and Ruth Graham / NYT
Generations After Slavery, Georgia Neighbors Find Freedom and Repair in Christ. By Melissa Morgan Kelley / CT
How Black Americans combated racism from beyond the grave. By David B. Parker / The Conversation
Louisiana Army Based Named after WWI Sgt. William Henry Johnson. By Kalyn Womack / The Root
Liberals love Teddy Roosevelt – but his racism paved the way for Donald Trump and Tucker Carlson. By Matthew Rozsa / Salon
Slave cases are still cited as good law. This team is trying to change that. By Rachel Treisman / NPR
