National News
The anti-racist Mormon trying to teach his fellow LDS church members. By Rachel Martin / NPR
How John and Alice Coltrane’s music inspired a vision for American Hinduism. By Murali Balaji / RNS
The White Press & Jim Crow. By Justin Laing / AAIHS
Florida’s Stop Woke Act is latest in a long history of censoring Black scholarship. By Darryl Robertson / Andscape
The Campus Walkout That Led to America’s First Black Studies Department. By Farrell Evans / History
Angela Davis ‘Can’t Believe’ Ancestry Discovery About Mayflower Relative. By Chrissy Callahan / Today
Black Theology Sings of Freedom. By Dante Stewart / Christianity Today
Republicans use ‘wokeism’ to attack left — but struggle to define it. By Ashley Parker and Liz Goodwin / Wash Post
Black Mayors of 4 Biggest U.S. Cities Draw Strength From One Another. By Emma G. Fitzsimmons and Jeffery C. Mays / NYT
In Mississippi’s Capital, Old Racial Divides Take New Forms. By Michael Wines / NYT
Rep. Barbara Lee launches U.S. Senate run in California. By Maeve Reston / Wash Post
Did Politics Scrub ‘systemic’ from AP African American Studies Plan. By Nick Anderson / Wash Post
The racist idea that changed American education. By Matt Barnum / Vox
At VMI, two classmates — one Black, one White — war over school’s future. By Ian Shapira / Wash Post
Who Killed Malcolm X? Family to File $100M Suit v. FBI, CIA, NYPD & Others to Find the Truth. By Amy Goodman / Democracy Now
New research reconsiders writings of a Muslim slave and scholar. By Yonat Shimron / RNS
Nikki Haley says she’s Christian, but it’s complicated. By Khyati Y. Joshi / RNS
Three Black Women Who Preached With the Power of the Holy Spirit. By Kate Hanch / Christianity Today
The Decolonization of Christianity Is Not Complete. By Tish Harrison Warren / NYT
Abraham Lincoln’s disastrous effort to get Black people to leave the U.S. By Sydney Trent / Wash Post
‘The wound hasn’t healed’: Activists recount 1898 Wilmington coup that terrorized Black residents. By Sara Avery / ABC News
Why the United States Needs a New Reconstruction. By Robert Greene II / The Nation
Legalize Black History. By Jesse Hagopian / The Progressive
A look into the history of the Black men who built the US Capitol, Tidal Basin and beyond. By Carl Willis / News 4
National Divorce Is More Popular Than You Think. By Bonnie Kristan / The Daily Beast
73 years after winning first ‘Top Gun’ competition, Black pilots are honored. By Dave Kindy / Wash Post
