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Speaker Mike Johnson Lives in DC House With a Pastor Leading a Secretive Influence Campaign

The Capitol Hill townhouse is owned by a major Republican donor. It’s the headquarters of a little-known political influence project that has reached a number of powerful Republican politicians.

ICE Prosecutor in Dallas Runs White Supremacist X Account

The Observer has identified the operator of “GlomarResponder,” an overtly racist social media account, as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

Professor Charrise Barron Talks Teaching Protest Music’s Evolution From Gospel to Hip-Hop

Charrise Barron, an ethnomusicologist, clergyperson, and scholar of Black religious and cultural history, talks teaching about protest music.

Churches Are Breaking the Law and Endorsing in Elections, Experts Say. The IRS Looks the Other Way.

Federal law bars churches from directly involving themselves in political campaigns, but the IRS has largely its enforcement responsibilities.

‘I Must Have My Manhood’ — How Bill Russell Fought for Respect On and Off the Court

Russell undertook an intellectual and personal journey, seeking to find worth in the NBA amid the racial tumult of the Civil Rights Movement.

How America’s Racism Inspired Hitler’s Quest for an Aryan-Only Germany

Throughout the early 1930s, the years of the making of the Nuremberg Laws, Adolf Hitler's Nazi policymakers looked to U.S. law for inspiration.

How a White Pastor Came to Understand the Evils and Hypocrisy of Racism

Kansas pastor Allen Hood describes key events that helped him learn early on how lies rooted in White supremacy add to challenges Black people already face.