Lessons From Down-Under : Living With Racism in Australia – Alice Pung / NYT
MELBOURNE, Australia — My father survived the killing fields of Cambodia, where he was threatened with having his tongue cut out with a sickle for…
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Reflections : We Are Donald Trump – Khalil Gibran Muhammad / The Nation
Watch Them Whip: A Decade of Viral Dance Moves / The New Yorker
Dancers from around the country perform the most popular dance moves, from the Dougie to the Quan. Watch the video here
Following Decades of Assimilation in America : Are Jews White? Emma Green / The Atlantic
Here’s how socialists shoved racist groups back into their hateful hole in the 1990s – Travis Gettys / Raw Story
The Scourge of Racial Bias in New York State’s Prisons – Michael Schwirtz, Michale Winerip and Robert Gebeloff / NYT
“Justice Delayed is Justice Denied,” Walter Scott Case Proves – Adam Hamze / Huff Post
Forget “dialogue” with Donald Trump and his supporters: They have empowered hatred and harm – Chauncey Devega / Salon
‘I Will Not Shut Up. America Is Still Worth Fighting For.’ – Heather Cox Richardson / Bill Moyers
Black Hair is Beautiful. Victoria Secret Said So! – Jaleesa M. Jones / USA Today
Finally! Natural hair celebrated at the 2016 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show. Is this what Heaven looks like? During Monday’s broadcast of the 2016 Victoria’s Secret…
The Dakota Pipeline Protests, Explained – Josh Siegel / The Daily Signal
Both Feeling Threatened, American Muslims and Jews Join Hands – Laurie Goodstein / NYT
37 Civil Rights Groups Seek Investigation Into ‘Torture’ At Lewisburg Prison – Joseph Shapiro / NPR
In a letter to U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch, 37 civil rights, human rights and church groups on Monday asked the U.S. Department of Justice…
What the Alt-Right Really Means ( White Supremacist and/or White Nationalist) – Christopher Caldwell / NYT
The Horror of Lynchings Lives On – The Editorial Board / NYT
Blacks, Other Minorities Arming Themselves in Record Numbers Since Trump’s Victory – Tanasia Kenney / Atlanta Black Star
Extremists Turn to a Leader to Protect Western ( White Nationalism) Values: Vladimir Putin – Alan Feuer and Andrew Higgins / NYT
Watch Cornel West on Donald Trump: This is What Neo-Fascism Looks Like – Democracy Now
President-elect Donald Trump has announced a handful of new Cabinet picks with deep ties to Wall Street. On Tuesday, he named Steven Mnuchin to be…
Black people are three times likelier to be killed in police chases – Thomas Frank / USA Today
FLINT, Mich. – James Thompson was the first to die. The 75-year-old Navy veteran had just taken four neighborhood boys for haircuts when an SUV…
Can Russell Westbrook Continue Historic Triple-Double Average ? Sean Stephens / Rolling Stone
What about the black working class? Tanzina Vega / CNN Money
Amid all of the talk about economic populism this election cycle, one group has been largely left out: working class Americans of color. The focus…
Watch humans go from a tiny group in Africa to 7 billion around the world, in 5 minutes – German Lopez / Vox
Black Americans choose life for Dylann Roof – Ellis Cose / USA Today
There’s Been An ‘Outbreak’ Of Nearly 900 Hate Incidents Since Trump’s Win – Christopher Mathias and Kate Abbey-Lambetz / Huff Post
Don Motley’s museum will keep Negro League baseball alive for black boys – Justice B. Hill / The Undefeated
Donald Trump has every reason to keep white people thinking about race – Dylan Matthews / Vox
Giving Toussaint Louverture the Great Man Treatment – Malcolm Harris / New Republic
Why was Haiti’s revolutionary overlooked by historians for so long? For nearly 80 years no scholar has written an English-language biography of Haitian revolutionary Toussaint…
Divisions in My Dorm Room ( New York University) – K.N. Pineda / NYT
Parallels to country’s racist past (during and after Reconstruction) haunt age of Obama – John Blake / CNN
A tall, caramel-complexioned man marched across the steps of the U.S. Capitol to be sworn into office as a jubilant crowd watched history being made….
How much could Trump’s education secretary damage public schools? Just look at Detroit – Casey Quinlan / ThinkProgress
Trump offers housing secretary job to man who wants to gut law banning housing discrimination – Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress
