National
After 50 years, Asian American studies programs can still be hard to find. By Agnes Constante / NBC News
Inherently Unequal: The life and afterlife of Plessy v. Ferguson. By David Cole / The Nation
A Crime by Any Name. By Adam Serwer / The Atlantic
“The Long Southern Strategy”: How Southern white women drove the GOP to Donald Trump. By Paul Rosenberg / Salon
Proud Boys and Allies to Rally in D.C. to Capitalize on ‘Trumpstravaganza.’ By Will Sommer / Daily Beast
Civil Rights Groups Have Been Warning Facebook About Hate Speech In Secret Groups For Years. By Ariana Tobin / ProPublica
Florida makes the restoration of voting rights contingent on criminal debt payments. By Victoria Shineman / The Conversation
New Data Finds Black Homebuyers, Despite Their Income, Are More Than Twice as Likely Than Whites to Be Denied Mortgages. By Tanasia Kenney / AtlBlackStar
Kamala Harris and Classmates Were Bused Across Berkeley. The Experience Changed Them. By Nellie Bowles / NYT
“What to the Slave Is 4th of July?”: James Earl Jones Reads Frederick Douglass’s Historic Speech. By Democracy Now
Kamala Harris Is Surging and Birtherism Is Back. By Will Sommer / Daily Beast
California to become first state to ban discrimination against natural hair. By Doha Madani and Janelle Griffith / NBC News
Supreme Court Hands GOP Big Victory on Gerrymandering, Ensuring “Massive Election Rigging.” By Ari Berman / Democracy Now
Not all Americans have a fair path to a good death – racial disparities are real. By Jason Ashe and Danielle L. Beatty Moody / The Conversation
The black woman who launched the modern fight for reparations. By Ashley D. Farmer / Wash Post
In the census-citizenship case, the Supreme Court may once again affirm ‘white rule.’ By John Blake / CNN
Elizabeth Warren: Repeal The Law That Criminalizes Migrants. By Roque Planas / HuffPost
FYI Democrats: ‘The Divine Nine’—black sororities and fraternities 101. By Denise Oliver Velez / Daily Kos
Survivor of WWII Internment Camp Speaks Out: Japanese Americans Know the Trauma of Child Detention. By Democracy Now
How black pharmacists are closing the cultural gap in health care. By Cara Anthony / NBC News
Clarence Thomas’s Astonishing Opinion on a Racist Mississippi Prosecutor. By Jeffrey Toobin / The New Yorker
Politics Shape The Debate Over What To Call Far-Right Extremism. By Hannah Allam / NPR
72 Philadelphia Police Officers Placed On Desk Duty Over Offensive Social Media Posts. By Bobby Allyn / NPR
Why the racial wealth gap persists, more than 150 years after emancipation. By Calvin Schermerhorn / Wash Post
Mitch McConnell says America made up for slavery by electing Barack Obama. By Luke Barnes / ThinkProgress
No African American has won statewide office in Mississippi in 129 years – here’s why. John A. Tures and Seth Golden / The Conversation
Supreme Court hands Democrats a win in Virginia racial gerrymander case. By Ariane de Vogue, Ryan Nobles and Devan Cole / CNN
The Nonwhite Working Class. By Henry Grabar / Slate
Adidas Sells Diversity. Black Employees Say It Doesn’t Practice It. By Julie Creswell and Kevin Draper / NYT
California Governor Apologizes For State’s History Of Violence Against Native Americans. By Dominique Mosbergen / HuffPost
