National
Holder-affiliated group launches new challenge to partisan gerrymandering in North Carolina. By Amy Gardner / Wash Post
“Worth This Investment”: Memos Reveal the Scope and Racial Animus of GOP Gerrymandering Ambitions. By David Daley / The Intercept
‘OK’ is now a hate symbol, the ADL says. By Sara Sidner / CNN
Gov. Hogan: $200 million is ‘final offer’ to resolve HBCU lawsuit. By Talia Richman / The Baltimore Sun
How Harvard admissions can be a barometer of our deepest divides. By Jennifer Lee and Van C. Tran / CNN
Elaine Massacre: Federal troops escorting African Americans to the schoolhouse in Elaine, Ark; October 1919. By Christina Maxouris / CNN
GOP racial gerrymandering mastermind participated in redistricting in more states than previously known, files reveal. By David Daley / The Intercept
Mississippi: African American voters sue over election law rooted in the state’s racist past. By Gideon Cohn-Postar / The Conversation
Chokwe Antar Lumumba: Being a Radical Means Getting to the Root Causes of Injustice. By John Nichols / The Nation
Poll finds support for school busing to reduce segregation, but only among Democrats. By Llaura Meckler and Scott Clement / Wash Post
43 Percent of White Students Harvard Admits Are Legacies, Jocks, or the Kids of Donors and Faculty. By Jordan Weissmann / Slate
Hostile Environment For Black Workers Probed In Virginia Beach Shooting Investigation. By Sarah McCammon / NPR
When Anti-Immigration Meant Keeping Out Black Pioneers. By Anna Lisa Cox / NYT
DHS Warns Against Growing Threat Of White Supremacist Extremism Online. By Amy Russo / HuffPost
Exclusive: Martin Luther King Jr. Talks Reparations, White Economic Anxiety and Guaranteed income in a Previously Unheard Speech. By Michael Hariot / The Root
He was a Yale graduate, Wall Street banker and entrepreneur. Today he’s homeless in Los Angeles. By Dan Simon / CNN
Revisiting the Poor People’s Campaign and Its Legacy. By Bobby Cervantes / AAIHS
Kamala Harris grew up in a mostly white world. Then she went to a black university in a black city. By Robin Givhan / Wash Post
The parking garage beating lasted 10 seconds. DeAndre Harris still lives with the damage. By Ian Shapira / Wash Post
“Racism in America Is Endemic”: Democratic Candidates Vow to Confront White Supremacy & Legacy of Slavery. By Juan Gonzalez / Democracy Now
O’Rourke Promises To ‘Take Your AR-15,’ But Americans Are Split On Buybacks. By Brandon Carter / NPR
Civil Rights Groups Challenge Trump’s “Racially Discriminatory Scheme” to Skew Redistricting. Ari Berman / Mother Jones
How Black Americans Were Robbed of Their Land. Video by The Atlantic
Couples in Virginia will no longer have to disclose race to obtain a marriage license. By Minyvonne Burke / NBC News
Crystal Mason Reacts To Felicity Huffman’s 14-Day Prison Sentence. By Sam levine / HuffPost
The Ongoing Struggle of the Black Ivy League. By Alaina Morgan / AAIHS
Restoring Black Cowboys to the Range. By Sarah Maslin Nir / NYT
Teaching Hard History. Preface by Hasan Kwame Jeffries / Southern Poverty Law Center
As plantations talk more honestly about slavery, some visitors are pushing back. By Hannah Knowles / Wash Post
Virginia seminary sets aside $1.7 million to pay reparations to descendants of slaves. By Daniel Burke / CNN
