National
Trump Says Smithsonian Focuses Too Much on ‘How Bad Slavery Was.’ By Zolan Kanno-Youngs / NYT
Three Republican-led states to send hundreds of National Guard troops to Washington. By AP and NPR
Trump’s Selective Stance on Justice: Redemption for Some, Scorn for Others. By Erica L. Green / NYT
The GOP plot to gain 40 seats without winning any more votes. By Russell Payne / Salon
Trump Administration Scraps Research Into Health Disparities. By Roni Caryn Rabin and Irena Hwang / NYT
Columbia Will Make Direct Payments to Jewish Employees. Not All of Them Are Happy About It. By Sonel Cutler / Chronicle of Higher Ed.
Judge Halts White House Effort to Defund Schools With D.E.I. Programs. By Dana Goldstein / NYT
Oklahoma to begin controversial test to weed out ‘woke’ teacher applicants today. By Sunlen Serfaty / CNN
Trump killed affirmative action. His base might not like what comes next. By Noel King and Gabrielle Berbey / Vox
Pete Hegseth’s Pastor Wants ‘Spiritual Warfare’ Waged On All. By Josh Kovensky / TPM
100 days of Pope Leo XIV: An early test for the first American pontiff. By Claire Giangravé / RNS
Hundreds of Catholic sisters walk Atlanta streets to pray for social, environmental justice. By Fiona Murphy / NCR
A new reading of Sherman’s march shows how enslaved people sought to free themselves. By Adria R. Walker / The Guardian
At Alabama plantation, families of enslavers and enslaved strike a deal. By Emmanuel Felton / Wash Post
North Carolina Confederate Monument Goes Too Far, Lawsuit Says. By Audra D. S. Burch / NYT
As civil rights books are pulled from school shelves, one Alabama town is refusing to forget its story. By Annabel Grossman / Independent
A History of National Guard Deployments in Heavily Black U.S. Cities. By Brandon Tensley / Capital B
Black mayors and leaders decry Trump’s threats to deploy National Guard in cities. By Curtis Bunn / NBC News
