National
Historic Black Neighborhood Devastated By Los Angeles Wildfires. By Jovonne Ledet / Black Information Network
Charles Person, youngest of the Freedom Riders, dies at 82. By Harrison Smith / Wash Post
From Plains to the Presidency, Jimmy Carter Remembered at National Funeral. By Harvest Prude / Christianity Today
Billionaires court Trump at Mar-a-Lago, his “center of the universe.” By Daria Solovieva / Salon
Why Trump’s Inauguration Falling on MLK Day is Painfully Ironic. By Allison Wiltz / Level
Louisiana: Racism Doesn’t Exist Anymore, So Let Us Racially Gerrymander. By Kate Riga / TPM
Race on Campus: Can colleges attract Latino students with colorblind strategies? By Fernanda Zamudio-Suarez / Chronicle of Higher Ed
Years after Floyd’s death, Minneapolis and DOJ agree to police changes. By David Nakamura / Wash Post
Cardinal McElroy to face challenges in Trump’s Washington. By Brian Fraga / NCR
What People Get Wrong About Christian Women Who Voted for Trump. By Nina Martin / Mother Jones
Why Mike Johnson’s fake “Jefferson prayer” matters. By Amanda Marcotte / Salon
Not all insurrections are equal – for enslaved Americans, it was the only option. By Deion Scott Hawkins / The Conversation
History’s Lessons on Anti-Immigrant Extremism. By Michael Luo / The New Yorker
Inside The Quest To Save America’s Oldest Incorporated Black Town Of Brooklyn, Illinois. By Nahlah Abdur-Rahman / Black Enterprise
McDonald’s Is The Latest Company To Roll Back Diversity Goals. By Dee-ann Durbin / HuffPost
Presidents Expect Loyalty. Trump Demands Fealty. By John Bolton / NYT
‘I Mean, I’m Not Surprised’: Elon Musk Slammed As a ‘Racist’ After Seemingly Fully Embracing White Victimhood with Endorsement of Post Comparing DEI to Jim Crow. By Christian Boone / Atlanta Black Star
What Vivek Ramaswamy Leaves Out of His Story of South Asian Success. By Zaid Jilani / NYT
In the GOP Civil War Over Immigration, Both Sides Are Racists. By Jeet Heer / The Nation
Tim Scott becomes longest-serving Black senator in US history. By Beatrice Peterson / ABC News
Soaring Application Numbers Suggest Historically Black Colleges Are Still in Vogue. By Declan Bradley / Chronicle of Higher Ed.
After every election, I turn to Tolstoy. By Julian DeShazier / The Christian Century
Biden awards Denzel Washington, Magic Johnson and Fannie Lou Hamer with Presidential Medal of Freedom. By Gerren Keith Gaynor / The Grio
Biden to create two national monuments in California honoring tribes. By Maxine Joselow / Wash Post
Pay attention: There’s a second civil rights movement. By Juan Williams / Wash Post
Donald Trump Is The New Republic’s 2024 Scoundrel of the Year. By Alex Shephard / The New Republic
Elon Musk’s X Endgame. By Ali Breland / The Atlantic
‘The first to sue’: Opposing Trump’s desire to end birthright citizenship is personal for this attorney general. By Lawrence Hurley / NBC News
Indians Are Getting a Crash Course On America’s Racism. By Adebayo Adeniran / MSN
After Trump’s Win, More Black Americans Are Leaving for Mexico. by Adam Mahoney / Capital B
