National
Why I Keep Coming Back to Reconstruction. By Jamelle Bouie / NYT
‘I Dream A World’ celebrates the timeless, urgent vision of Black Women. By Lonnae O’Neal / Andscape
Their America Is Vanishing. Like Trump, They Insist They Were Cheated. By Michael H. Keller and David D. Kirkpatrick / NYT
Does campus diversity justify affirmative action? Our study says yes. By Adam Chilton, Justin Driver , Jonathan Masur and Kyle Rozema / Wash Post
Deidre DeJear Runs for Governor in Iowa. By Aaliyah Wright / Capital B
Oprah seeks to lend her appeal to Abrams in Georgia election. By AP and NBC News
After Mississippi’s water crisis, the EPA has launched an investigation. By AP and NPR
Where $30 Billion to Fix Systemic Racism Actually Goes. By Emily Flitter / NYT
Whites now more likely to die from covid than Blacks: Why the pandemic shifted. By Akilah Johnson and Dan Keating / Wash Post
America has a Black sperm donor shortage. Black women are paying the price. By Amber Ferguson / NYT
A push in Congress to help Black WW II vets who didn’t benefit from the GI Bill. By Guil Lawrence / NPR
HBCU bomb threats drive frustration. No FBI word on arrests. Tiffany Cusaac-Smith and Francesca Chambers / USA Today
The Political Gospel of Raphael Warnock. By Benjamin Wallace-Wells / The New Yorker
America’s religious divide isn’t really about religion. By E.J. Dionne Jr. / Wash Post
Theological pandemic: Why evangelicals embraced Jan. 6 and the Big Lie. By Nathaniel Manderson / Salon
A slaveholding senator, an 1879 wedding and a Black family’s mystery. By Julie Zauzmer Weil / Wash Post
Kansas City still suffers the failures of school desegregation experiments. By David Von Drehle / Wash Post
A Brooklyn school’s students fought to add AP African American Studies to their curriculum. By Janelle Griffith / NBC News
As midterms near, immigrants and voters of color being targeted with rampant misinformation. By Areeba Shah / Salon
Abrams and Warnock pursue very different strategies in key Georgia races. By Sahil Kapur / NBC News
Florida Senate debate: Takeaways from Marco Rubio and Val Demings. By Zac Anderson / Tallahassee Democrat
Redistricting fight over who is Black in Louisiana voting map. By Hansi Lo Wang / NPR
Does campus diversity justify affirmative action? Our study says yes. By Adam Chilton Justin Driver, Jonathan Masur and Kyle Rozema / Wash Post
Congress investigates Jackson water crisis and Mississippi’s use of federal funds. By Bracey Harris / NBC News
Babies born to Black mothers die far more often than those with white mothers. By Aria Bendix / NBC News
George Floyd’s family to file $250 million lawsuit against Ye, a.k.a. Kanye West. By Matt Adams / NPR
Anna May Wong will become the first Asian American on U.S. coins. By Ashley Ahn / NPR
Fewer than half of Americans may be Christian by 2070, according to new projections. By Bob Smietana / RNS
Catholics have a duty to combat voter suppression, webinar participants say. By Aleja Hertzler-McCain / NCR
How Warnock’s church highlights the key to Georgia’s Senate race. By Eugene Daniels / Politico
