National
Ida B. Wells and the Lynching of Black Women – Crystal N. Feimster / NYT
Lynching memorial leaves some quietly seething: ‘Let sleeping dogs lie’ – Sam Levin / The Guardian
The poor don’t have a prayer in today’s Washington – Dana Milbank / Wash Post
HUD Secretary Ben Carson to propose raising rent for low-income Americans receiving federal housing subsidies – Tracy Jan, Caitlin Dewey and Jeff Stein / Wash Post
Watching Cosby Fall (Victim or Victimizer) – Jasmine Sanders / NYT
Confederate Memorial Day: when multiple states celebrate treason in defense of slavery – Jane Coaston / Vox
The Selfless Servant Leadership of the African-American Women of the Civil-Rights Movement – Janet Dewart Bell / The Nation
The disparities in how black and white men die in gun violence, state by state – Jacqueline Howard / CNN
New Federal Data Shows How Black Students Are Getting Pushed Out Of School – Rebecca Klein / HuffPost
A Lynching Memorial. The Country Has Never Seen Anything Like It – Campbell Robertson / NYT
Trump challenges Native Americans’ historical standing – Dan Diamond / Politico
Boehner Benefits From Weed. Blacks Are in Prison for Using It – Vincent M. Southerland and Johanna B. Steinberg / NYT
How Alabama could become ‘Ground Zero’ in renewed battle over Confederate symbols – John Sharp / AL.com
Watch: The Memphis Sanitation Strike Ends – Kirsten West Savali, and Emily Yelllin / The Root
Stacey Abrams, the Candidate for Georgia Governor Who Could Make History – Charles Bethea / The New Yorker
Why a Statue of the ‘Father of Gynecology’ Had to Come Down – Adam Serwer / The Atlantic
Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah, freelance reporter, wins the Pulitizer for portrait of Dylann Roof / NYT
Ms. Ghansah’s portrait of Dylann Roof was cited for its “unique and powerful mix of reportage, first-person reflection and analysis of the historical and cultural…
‘Dear White People’ Season 2 Targets Alt-Right Trolls – Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast
The Fight for $15 takes on the ‘Jim Crow economy’ – John Blake / CNN
Why America’s Black Mothers and Babies Are in a Life-or-Death Crisis – Linda Villarosa / NYT
HUD Long Neglected These Residents. Now As They Move Out, Some Feel HUD Let Them Down Again – Molly Parker / ProPublica
Kept Out : For people of color, banks are shutting the door to homeownership – Aaron Glantz and Emmanuel Martinez / RevealNews
California’s Higher Ed Diversity Problem – Claudio Sanchez / NPR
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
