The U.S. Department of Justice will not charge six Baltimore police officers implicated in the death of Freddie Gray, the young African-American man who died in police custody in 2015. The government’s decision means none of the officers will face a criminal conviction in Gray’s death. State prosecutors charged all six officers, but juries acquitted three of them. The state dropped the charges in the other three cases. Gray died after breaking his neck in the back of a police transport van, where he was shackled but not restrained in a seat belt.

CLARKSTON, Ga., and AUGUSTA, Ga.—On a steamy Sunday morning in northern Georgia, joggers toting water bottles huff up a steep hill next to a massive granite rock soaring 800 feet into the humid Georgia air.

Stone Mountain Park is one of Georgia’s most visited tourist attractions, with its hiking, camping, ropes courses, railroad, water attractions, dinosaur-related exhibits, and one other notable display: the largest Confederate monument in the country.

Long before Richard Spencer grabbed national attention at the tumultuous August “Unite the Right” rally led by white nationalists in Charlottesville, Va., he’d been spinning his vision of superiority and racism under the banner of the “alt-right,” or “alternative right,” for years.

If the term “alt-right” seems vague, that’s because it often serves as a broad banner for loosely connected groups promoting a range of views rooted in race-based ideologies.

House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., on Monday evening critiqued President Donald Trump’s response to the Aug. 12 violence in Charlottesville, Va., saying the commander in chief failed to provide moral clarity when the nation needed it most. “I do believe that he messed up in his comments,” Ryan said during a town hall meeting in his home state televised by CNN. “It sounded like moral equivalency, or at the very least, moral ambiguity, when we need extreme moral clarity.” Ryan often sidesteps Trump controversies but this time said the president could have and should have done better.

Members of a Liberty University alumni group plan to return their diplomas to the school to protest Liberty President Jerry Falwell Jr.’s staunch defense of President Donald Trump’s comments about the violent Aug. 12 protest in Charlottesville, Va. A group of Liberty graduates on Thursday launched a Facebook page called “Return your diploma to LU,” calling for alumni to mail their diplomas back to Falwell by Sept.

The University of Texas at Austin removed three Confederate monuments early Monday in an attempt to avoid controversy before students return to campus for the fall semester. University President Greg Fenves announced the decision Sunday evening and maintenance crews began work overnight. Fenves said after the violence in Charlottesville, Va., on Aug. 12 he could no longer justify retaining the statues of Confederate Gens. Robert E. Lee and Albert Sidney Johnston and Confederate Postmaster General John Reagan located on campus.

One week ago, a death in Charlottesville, Va., showed us the danger embedded in our current national divisiveness. We have great need for the transforming truth that the Bible brings to bear not just on personal questions but on how to live together in a providentially pluralistic country. 

Scott Allen, president of the Disciple Nations Alliance, has seen societies abroad wrecked when one group of humans considers itself superior, or more highly evolved, than another.