National News
Biden admin releases first plan to support Asian American, Pacific Islander and Native Hawaiian communities. By Kimmy Yam / NBC News
Colorado police and paramedics plead not guilty in Elijah McClain death. By AP and NPR
Historically Black Catholic university announces new medical college to meet dire shortage. By Peter Finney Jr. / NCR
Foundation empties coffers to fund Black paper in Baltimore. By AP and NBC News
Pastor William Barber says Christian nationalism is ‘a form of heresy.’ By John Blake / CNN
Donald Trump is smothering the religious right. By Heather Digby Parton / Salon
A great historian unlocks the key to antisemitism. By Paul Johnson / RNS
Slavery’s Indelible Stain on a White Abolitionist Legend. By Michael Jeffries / NYT
John Hope Franklin and WWII as a Crisis of Democracy. By Thomas Cryer / AAIHS
What A. Philip Randolph Knew About Jobs and Freedom. By Jamelle Bouie / NYT
How to Divide the Working Class. By Charles M. Blow / NYT
The five Black governors who came before Maryland’s Wes Moore. By Gillian Brockell / Wash Post
Florida Gov. DeSantis leads the GOP’s national charge against public education that includes lessons on race and sexual orientation. By Jonathan Feingold / The Conversation
For Black voters, great expectations of America’s lone Black governor. By Ovetta Wiggins ,Erin Cox and Lateshia Beachum / Wash Post
What is Hillsdale College? Florida Gov. DeSantis wants to replicate it. By Nirvi Shah / USA Today
A Georgia Republican Brags That Voter Suppression Helped Them in 2022. By Joan Walsh / The Nation
Supreme Court justices are showing their willingness to boost conservative causes. By Joan Biskupic / CNN
Jackson, Mississippi’s water crisis persists as national attention and help fade away. By Char Adams / NBC News
San Francisco Reparations Committee Recommends One-Time $5M Payment to Longtime Black Residents, An Apology for ‘Decades of Harm.’ By Niko Mann / Atlanta Black Star
Catholics must be ‘active participants’ in MLK’s ‘unfinished’ work, Cardinal Gregory says. By Richard Szczepanowski / NCR
Religion 102: Secular Humanism. By Ojibwa / Daily Kos
How a Sunken Slave Ship Set Off “a Search for Ourselves.” By Sam Jones / Mother Jones
By Dismantling Racist Myths, The 1619 Project Becomes Intensely Patriotic TV. By Stephen Robinson / Primetimer
Biden delivers sermon drawing on legacy of Rev. Martin Luther King: ‘This is a time of choosing.’ By Donald Judd and Sonnet Swire / CNN
It’s not just Trump: A sobering new report chronicles the extensive GOP war on democracy. By Amanda Marcotte / Salon
Maryland’s governor to take oath on Frederick Douglass’s Bible. By Joe Heim / Wash Post
