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1. Memphis Church Destroyed in Major Blaze: What To Know | Newsweek
The Clayborn Temple in Memphis, TN, has experienced a devastating fire that has reduced the historic church to rubble. The church was a central location for the Civil Rights Movement and underwent a years-long restoration project. Please visit this link if you feel compelled to aid the church in its hour of need.
2. Meet the new American refugees fleeing across state lines for safety | The Guardian
Hundreds of thousands of Americans are packing up and moving across the country as political forces upend education, medical care, and job security. The Guardian profiles five stories of such Americans.
3. DEI rollbacks hit campus support systems for students of color | NBC News
As campuses roll back their DEI practices, students of color report how much they lose, including scholarships, move-in events, and campus mentors.
4. Atlanta Public Safety Training Center opens after years of controversy | WABE
The police training facility dubbed “Cop City” has been unveiled despite years of court battles and countless protests from local citizens and national activists.
5. Judges Are Slowing Down Trump’s Fascist Deportation Regime. Now He’s Arresting Them For It. | The Intercept
Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan’s arrest proves many things about the Trump administration, but a lifeline that we can hold onto is that judges willing to fight back against this administration’s illegal and unconstitutional actions are still out there fighting.
6. Frustrations, fear of erasing history voiced after artifacts returned from African American history museum | NBC News
Following President Trump’s “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History” executive order, owners of some historical objects loaned to the National Museum of African American History and Culture have confirmed that their items have been removed from their displays.
7. Republican-led states keep adding school voucher programs even as critics worry about cost | AP News
Despite the economic uncertainty facing our country, a dozen states are set to enact programs that will use taxpayer money for private school education in the 2025-2026 school year.
8. The Justice Department ended a decades-old school desegregation order. Others are expected to fall | AP News
The U.S. Department of Justice has ended a decades-old school desegregation order in Louisiana’s Plaquemines Parish, sparking concerns from civil rights advocates that this move could undermine efforts to combat ongoing racial segregation in schools.
9. Trump Recasts Mission of Justice Dept.’s Civil Rights Office, Prompting ‘Exodus’ | The New York Times
As the Trump administration moves the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Office away from protecting marginalized populations to go after cases against liberal cities, the Ivy League, and HBCUs, hundreds of lawyers and staff have decided to resign.
10. A look at dandyism, the Black fashion style powering the Met Gala | AP News
Black dandyism is a term that began with the trans-Atlantic slave trade, which forced enslaved people to signal their owner’s wealth by wearing fine clothes and gold, silver, or brass collars with padlocks. The term was reclaimed during the Harlem Renaissance and now embodies “liberation and resistance through exuberant self-expression,” which will be on display this upcoming Monday at the Met exhibit.