Americans are supposed to turn to police after a murder. In black communities, they often can’t – German Lopez / Vox
A veteran crime reporter explains how police under- and overpolice black Americans. Read more here
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Mothers fighting Chicago gun violence one block at a time – Sher Watts Spooner / Daily Kos
3 dead, 23 wounded in Chicago shootings from Saturday afternoon through early Sunday morning – Megan Crepeau and Denanese Williams-Harris / Chicago Tribune
Making a Home for Black History : The vision and the challenges behind a new museum on the National Mall – Vinson Cunningham / The New Yorker
The disturbing dawn of the alt-right: Donald Trump’s the leader of a dark movement in America – Heather Digby Parton / Salon
Why Trump And The White Supremacist Alt-Right Are Threats To Democratic Values – And Our National Security – Robert Creamer / Huff Post
Hillary Clinton’s full remarks in Reno, Nevada / Politico and You Tube
Hillary Clinton says Donald Trump’s support of the “alternative-right” movement is “taking hate groups mainstream.” She delivered a blistering denunciation of Donald Trump’s personal and political history…
Donald Trump’s Description of Black America Is Offending Those Living in It – Richard Fausset, Alan Blinder and John Eligon / NYT
Harry Belafonte weighs in on Nate Parker and his new film – Mesfin Fekadu / Wash Post
A Judge Blocked North Carolina’s Plan To Suppress Black Voters. The GOP Found A Way To Do It Anyway. – Alice Ollstein / ThinkProgress
Chicago’s Inescapable Segregation – Melinda D. Anderson / The Atlantic
I Have a Black Son in Baltimore’: Anxious New Parents and an Era of Unease – Rachel L. Swarns / NYT
“There was a market for white resentment”: Tim Wise on Trump, David Duke and the bigotry that’s risen from the shadows – Chauncey Devega / Salon
Read or listen: Interview with Tim Wise about what the Trump phenomenon portends for the future of U.S. politics. Read or listen here.
Prosecutors say Dylann Roof ‘self-radicalized’ online, wrote another manifesto in jail – Mark Berman / Wash Post
America’s Pay Gap Could Cost Black Women More Than $1 Million – Catherine Pearson / Huff Post
When enslaved people sued Georgetown’s founders for freedom – William G. Thomas III / Wash Post
Nobody: Casualties of America’s War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond by Marc Lamont Hill
A New York Times bestseller “An impassioned analysis of headline-making cases….Timely, controversial, and bound to stir already heated discussion.” —Kirkus Reviews “A thought-provoking and important…
Whether the establishment likes it or not, white nationalists still power the Trump train – Alex Kotch / Salon
Trump’s Outreach to Black Voters Isn’t About Black Voters – Jamelle Bouie / Slate
Trump’s real endgame: A white nationalist media empire? Greg Sargent / Wash Post
Racial Politics After Obama – Brandon M. Terry / Dissent
On Social Media, As In Life, White People Are Way Less Likely To Talk About Race – Gene Demby / NPR
‘Racialists’ are cheered by Trump’s latest strategy – David Weigel / Wash Post
A surprising way to think about slavery / 60 Minutes Overtime
Historian and museum director Lonnie Bunch shows Scott Pelley a capital of the slave trade and explains why slavery is a story of strength in…
Is Andre Ward the last great African-American boxer? Sunni Khalid / The Undefeated
Our Drug Laws Have Always Been Racist: America’s Ugly History of Prohibition as a Tool to Oppress Minorities – David Bearman / Alternet
Affluent and Black, and Still Trapped by Segregation – John Eligon and Robert Gebeloff / NYT
Why well-off black families end up living in poorer areas than white families with similar or even lower incomes. MILWAUKEE — Their daughter was sick…
Racial Violence in Milwaukee Was Decades in the Making, Residents Say – John Eligon / NYT
Danny Glover & Larry Hamm on Black Lives Matter, Police Killings & How to Stop Donald Trump / Democracy Now
In New Jersey, lawmakers have recently introduced legislation that would require the state’s attorney general to review every death at the hands of law enforcement….
Black women are heroes in Rio. But they’re not just fighting to win gold – Joy-Ann Reid / Wash Post
The Legacy of Lynching, on Death Row – Jeffrey Toobin / The New Yorker
In Alabama, Bryan Stevenson is saving inmates from execution and memorializing the darkest episodes of America’s past. In 1989, a twenty-nine-year-old African-American civil-rights lawyer named…
The Breitbart alt-right just took over the GOP – Ben Shapiro / Wash Post
“This man is the most dangerous political operative in America. Steve Bannon runs the new vast right-wing conspiracy – and wants to take down Hillary…