National
Mississippi Welfare Scandal Spreads Well Beyond Brett Favre. By Neil MacFarquhar / NYT
Once nicknamed “Murderapolis,” the city that made itself the center of the “Defund the Police” movement is grappling with heightened violent crime. By Bob Kuznia / CNN
Following A Forbes Investigation, Florida A&M Students Sue Florida Over $1.3 Billion In Underfunding. By Hank Tucker / Forbes
The Cherokee Nation is renewing its push for a nonvoting delegate in Congress. By Joe Hernandez / NPR
The American right’s future involves waging a ‘religious battle’ against the left, leaders say at a conservative conference. By Allan Smith / NBC News
Trump’s Embrace of QAnon Realizes the Dream of the Religious Right. By Chris Lehmann / The Nation
Historians call DeSantis’ views on American slavery “ignorance”. By Meghan Ellis / Alternet
The forgotten history of what California stole from Black families. by Caitlin Yoshiko Kandil / The Guardian
The Missing Black Women in Denmark Vesey’s Conspiracy. By Karen Cook Bell / AAIHS
Jim Crow’s Forgotten History of Homicides. By Jennifer Szalai / NYT
What Stacey Abrams is really doing in Georgia. By Dahlia Lithwick / Slate
Poll: Personal and national factors collide in tight Georgia Senate race. By Fred Backus, Jennifer De Pinto , Anthony Salvanto and Kabir Khanna / CBS News
Supreme Court affirmative action cases could affect workplace next. By John Fritze / USA Today
State Investigation Reveals Racial Disparities in Student Discipline and Police Involvement. By Jodi S. Cohen and Jennifer Smith Richards / ProPublica
Jackson water crisis spurs calls to bring the federal hammer down on Mississippi. By Annie Snider / Politico
Where do Latino voters stand on abortion? Just about everywhere. By Nicole Narea / Vox
DNA test databases lack diversity, hinder search for missing children. By N’dea Yancey-Bragg, Sasha Ndisabiye and Rachel Looker / USA Today
Biden includes faith leaders in summit’s charge to ‘rise together against hate.’ By Adelle M. Banks / RNS
Most Republicans Support Declaring the United States a Christian Nation. By Stella Rouse and Shibley Telhami / Politico
‘Honk for Jesus’ provides an uncomfortable reflection of the Black church. By Candice Marie Benbow / NCR
Private Religious Schools Have Public Responsibilities Too. By Nomi M. Stolzenberg and David N. Myers / The Atlantic
Reckoning with the Slave Ship Clotilda. By Vera Caruthers / The New Yorker
Biden Calls On Americans To Speak Out Against Hate-Fueled Violence. By Colleen Long and Darlene Superville / HuffPost
Stacey Abrams Makes Big Push For Early In-Person Voter Turnout Amid New Election Laws. By Bill Barrow / HuffPost
Asian American women fall off by 80% at corporate leadership levels, a new report says. By Kimmy Yam / NBC News
Let’s Talk, a new racial unity initiative, takes evangelical leaders on tour of Black history. By Adelle M. Banks / RNS
Poll: Jewish voters are highly motivated and concerned about American democracy. By Yonat Shimron / RNS
How St. Louis churches are revealing the disparities in the air we breathe. By Britny Cordera / RNS
A ‘born and bred racist’ recounts how he became a best-selling Christian author, and why White evangelical support for Trump is misunderstood. By John Blake / CNN
America’s Christian majority is on track to end as more leave religion. By Michael Levitt / NPR
