National News
Utah School District Bans the Bible for “Vulgarity” and “Violence.” By Tori Otten / The New Republic
Inside the Christian Legal Crusade to Revive School Prayer. By Linda K. Wertheimer / The New Republic
Evangelicals Are Trump’s Firewall Against Primary Losses. By Ed Kilgore / New York Magazine
Fort Bragg becomes Fort Liberty in Army’s most prominent move to erase Confederate names from bases. By Hannah Schoebaum / AP
Descendants of early Black Californians want their ancestors’ stolen land back. By Curtis Bunn / NBC News
A Black girl won the first national spelling bee, dealing a blow to racism. By Bill Chappell / NPR
Ron DeSantis says he will ‘destroy leftism’ in US if elected president. By Martin Pengelly / The Guardian
The Rise of Latino White Supremacy. By Geraldo Cadava / The New Yorker
He prosecuted George Floyd’s killer — and he’s still searching for answers. By Shia Kapos / Politico
Minnesota sets up first office for missing and murdered Black women and girls. By Dana Ferguson / NPR
The Elusive Quest for Black Progress. By Matthew Thompson / NYT
Reparations Are a Financial Quandary. For Democrats, They’re a Political One, Too. By Trip Gabriel, Maya King, Kurtis Lee and Shawn Hubler / NYT
Young people aren’t buying far-right religious beliefs. By Serene Jones / RNS
Georgetown Reconciliation Fund announces first grant recipients. By Nate Tinner-Williams / NCR
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
