National
The preacher who used Christianity to revive the Ku Klux Klan – DeNeen L. Brown / Wash Post
After MLK’s Death, Coretta Scott King Went To Memphis To Finish His Work – Debbie Elliott / NPR
Black And Latino Children Are Often Overlooked When It Comes To Autism – Casey Rentz / NPR
America’s Federally Financed Ghettos – The Editorial Board / NYT
‘Martin Luther King Jr.’s Unfinished Work on Earth Must Truly Be Our Own’ – Benjamin E. Mays / The Atlantic
Secret use of census info helped send Japanese Americans to internment camps in WWII – Lori Aratani / Wash Post
Chicago sees drop in killings and shootings for 13 consecutive months – Brad Parks and Darran Simon / CNN
Searching For A Motherland As A Black Latina – Maria V. Luna / HuffPost
‘The Blood of Lynching Victims Is in This Soil.’- Katie Couric / Natl Geographic
This is what one tragedy-filled month says about race and justice in America – Ray Sanchez / CNN
The FBI is using its ‘Black Identity Extremist’ report to crack down on activists – Kay Wicker / ThinkProgress
A Snapshot Of How Asian-Americans Are Changing The South – Angela Chen / HuffPost
Race still trumps class for black Americans – Derick Hamilton and Jennifer Cohen / The Guardian
Asians are being used to make the case against affirmative action. Again – Alvin Chang / Vox
White Supremacist Men See White Manhood Under Siege – Randy Blazak / HuffPost
Racial segregation doesn’t just belong to the South. It belongs to all of us – David Von Drehle / Wash Post
NAACP lawsuit seeks to prevent undercount of minority communities – Tara Bahrampour / Wash Post
50 Years After Dr. Kings Death, New Lessons for Today – Holland Cotter / NYT
2020 Census Will Ask Black People About Their Exact Origins – Hansi Lo Wang / NPR
Mississippi’s new abortion ban will hit black women the hardest – P.R. Lockhart / Vox
In strong push for gun control, young black organizers join March for Our Lives – Richard Gilmer / USA Today
From Parkland to Chicago, Hope Rises for Overdue Gun Violence Reforms – Michael Daly / Daily Beast
In Sacramento, Protesters Shut Down Freeway And Block Entrance To Kings Game – Laurel Wamsley / NPR
The Bomber Is Dead, but Fear of Racist Attacks Lives On – Eric Tang / NYT
As America Changes, Some Anxious Whites Feel Left Behind – Michele Norris / Natl Geo
Democratic, Republican voter bases are more different than ever – David Lauter / LA Times
Asians could opt out of naming a country of origin on the 2020 census, a policymaker’s nightmare – Jennifer Lee / The Conversation
20,000 Republicans just voted for an actual Nazi – Josh Israel / ThinkProgress
Martin Luther King Jr. Was Bailed Out by a Millionaire – Incarcerated people today aren’t so lucky – Clint Smith / The Atlantic
A Profile of America’s Gun Owners Is Everything We’d Expect It To Be – David Love / Atl Black Star
