A Virginia school board is being sued by the NAACP for reinstating the names of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson on two of its schools after stripping the names in 2020. I went to the hearing where it felt like the Confederacy itself was on trial. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...

“This level of attack is unsustainable for Chicagoans.” President Trump claimed that crime-afflicted Black residents begged him to intervene in Chicago. Six weeks into the crackdown, the attack on crime that he promised hasn’t happened, and many in the city’s Black population haven’t been won over.

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look what happens when you actually speak to the people living in these neighborhoods instead of ventriloquizing them to make an ideological point: you get a good story www.nytimes.com/2025/08/16/u...

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Only 19 percent of students at Howard University are Black men. There are now about as many non-Black students attending HBCUs as there are Black men. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/u...

“We finally got you.” Jeanette Vizguerra, who made national news evading deportation in a church basement, is the latest activist to be taken into custody by federal immigration agents. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/u...

This gulf story has everything: a map-maker debating the name change, an oceanographer listening to whales, a Venezuelan mom on a gulf-side bus ride to an immigration appt — all bookended by Margaritavilles (Key West & S. Padre Island) and, of course, SpaceX. www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...

Fort Worth legend. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/u...

D’Wayne Wiggins, a founding member and the lead singer of the R&B trio Tony! Toni! Toné!, which had three platinum albums and a slew of hits in the 1980s and ’90s, died on Friday. He was 64.

Rose Girone, who was believed to be the oldest survivor of the Holocaust, died this week at 113. She fled Nazi Germany in 1939 with her husband and baby only to be forced into a Jewish ghetto in Shanghai. Still, she would often say, "Aren’t we lucky?" Read more: nyti.ms/3Xlk3fM

February 1 is the beginning of Black History Month, which for decades has recognized the contributions of Black people to American civic life and culture. With President Trump’s furious assault on diversity programs, the celebration takes on new significance.

Today is MLK Day as Trump acknowledged. I talked to Martin Luther King III about it: “Dad has been used like a smorgasbord…” www.nytimes.com/2025/01/20/u...