National
After Oprah’s Central Park Five interview, you realize that a $41 million settlement will never be enough. By Ernest Owens / The Grio
House To Hold Reparations Hearing With Testimony From Ta-Nehisi Coates. By Errin Haines Whack / AP
Maryland has created a truth commission on lynchings – can it deliver? By Kelebogile Zvobogo / The Conversation
Report: Hundreds of Police Officers Belong to Racist Facebook Groups. By Michael Harriot / The Root
Racist Laws Took the Vote Away From Prisoners. After Serving Time, One Man Is Fighting to Give It Back to Them. By Samantha Michaels / Mother Jones
More and more workplace discrimination cases are being closed before they’re even investigated. By Maryam Jameel / Vox
New foreclosure crisis hitting after shady lenders targeted black seniors for reverse mortgages. By Laura Clawson / Daily Kos
Elizabeth Warren’s New Plan to Close the Racial Wealth Gap. By Jamil Smith / Rolling Stone
Hip-Hop’s Next Billionaires: Richest Rappers 2019. By Zack O’Malley Greenburg / Forbes
A former slave who was the first black Catholic priest takes a step toward sainthood. By Daniel Burke / CNN
23% of young black women now identify as bisexual. By Tristan Bridges and Mignon R. Moore / The Conversation
The Statue of Liberty was created to celebrate freed slaves, not immigrants, its new museum recounts. By Gillian Brockell / Wash Post
Racial Terror and the Second Repeal of Reconstruction. By Kimberle Williams Crenshaw / The New Republic
The Indian Law That Helps Build Walls. By Maggie Blackhawk / NYT
For Many Navajos, Getting Hooked Up To The Power Grid Can Be Life-Changing. By Laurel Morales / NPR
The Case to Impeach Trump for Bigotry. By Osita Nwanevu / The New Yorker
How Gentrification Brings Over-Policing for D.C.’s Black Residents. By Kenya Evelyn / The Daily Beast
$40 Million for 400 Students: Morehouse Donation Highlights An Inequitable New Normal. By Colin Seale / Forbes
The Oracle Of Apopka: Meet Eddie Brown, One Of Wall Street’s Greatest Untold Stories. By Antoine Gara / Forbes
Lonnie Bunch III Set To Become Smithsonian Institution’s First Black Secretary. By Colin Dwyer / NPR
Jaime Harrison launches campaign against Lindsey Graham in South Carolina. By James Arkin / Politico
How Black Farmers Are Trying To End Centuries Of Racism In America’s Food System. By Marissa Evans / HuffPost
Overcoming a History of Bias in a Budding Industry. By Bianca Flowers / The Progressive
Look Good, Do Good: Madam C.J. Walker and Rihanna’s Beauty Politics. By Tiffany M. Gill / AAIHS
Inside the U.S. military’s battle with white supremacy and far-right extremism. By Jeff McCausland / NBC News
Black people are still suffering from police violence. Is America still listening? By P.R. Lockhart / Vox
Discriminatory housing practices linked to higher pollution and asthma rates, new report finds. By E.A. Crunden / ThinkProgress
Going Native: ‘The Struggle to Care for Our Own.’ By Mark Anthony Rolo / The Progressive
Racial wealth gap is vast: 2020 Democrats have plans to close it. By Benjy Sarlin / NBC News
A billionaire will pay off debt of Morehouse College’s 2019 graduates. Here is what that gesture means. By Darran Simon / CNN
