National News
Black caucus presses Biden to use the bully pulpit to push for police reform. By Eugene Daniels / Politico
Republicans Remove Ilhan Omar From House Foreign Affairs Committee. By Arthur Delaney / HuffPost
She Took On Atlanta’s Gangs. Now She May Be Coming for Trump. By Mark Binelli / NYT
The city left behind in Mississippi’s welfare scandal. By Matenzie Johnson / Andscape
Native Americans have experienced a dramatic decline in life expectancy during the COVID-19 pandemic – but the drop has been in the making for generations. By Allison Kelliher / The Conversation
Study: Racial disparities can affect brain development in Black children. By Claretta Bellamy / NBC News
Ida B. Wells Society relocates from UNC-Chapel Hill to Morehouse College. By Joe Killian / The Pulse
Biden tells dueling prayer breakfasts that ‘diversity is one of our greatest strengths.’ By Adelle M. Banks / Religion News
A brief history of the Black church’s diversity, and its vital role in American political history. By Jason Oliver Evans / The Conversation
Professor digs into history of Mercy sister’s boarding school for Native children. By Joyce Meyer / Global Sisters Report
Seeing Color Matters in Black History. By Terence Lester / Christianity Today
Slavery in Appalachia: The untold stories of Black Appalachian history. By Janay Reece / Wdbj7
The Rosa Parks of D.C. By David A. Taylore / Wash Post
The painful, cutting and brilliant letters Black people wrote to their former enslavers. By Gillian Brodkwell / Wash Post
Civil rights legislation sparked powerful backlash that’s still shaping American politics. By Julian Maxwell Hayter / The Conversation
The Meaning of African American Studies. By Keeanga-Yamahtta-Taylor / The New Yorker
Cops Lynched Tyre Nichols Because They Knew They Could. By Elie Mystal / The Nation
Tyre Nichols’ funeral in Memphis brings calls for justice. By Joe Hernandez / NPR
While Ron DeSantis Is Fighting Culture Wars, Millions Of Floridians Are Losing Their Health Care. By Jonathan Cohn / HuffPost
The Urgency of Police Reform Is at the Mercy of a Divided Congress. By Grace Segers / The New Republic
Republican House Oversight Committee disbands Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. By Cheyanne M. Daniels / The Hill
Kemp Declares State of Emergency Over Stop ‘Cop City’ Movement. By Madeline Thigpen and Adam Mahoney / Capital B
California mass shootings: Asian Americans grapple with back-to-back tragedy.
Native Americans left out of ‘deaths of despair’ research. By Rhitu Chatterjee / NPR
Montana’s Black Mayor. By Adam Harris / The Atlantic
Student protests heat up at Bethune-Cookman University after split with Ed Reed. By Bracey Harris / NBC News
