National
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
Still a Long Time Coming : Selma and the unfulfilled promise of civil rights – Elias Rodriques / The Nation
The Racist Origin of the Second Amendment and the Rise of Black Gun Ownership – Zenobia Jeffries / YES! Magazine
The FBI Is Too White—And It Considers That a “Huge Operational Risk” – Topher Sanders / Mother Jones
Economic Anxiety Didn’t Make People Vote Trump, Racism Did – Sean McElwee and Jason McDaniel / The Nation
Detroit’s black middle class emerged from 1968’s upheaval – John Gallagher / USA Today
How social media spread a historical lie – Jennifer Mendelsohn and Peter A. Shulman / Wash Post
A New Report Has Some Grim News About American Newborns – Kiera Butler / Mother Jones
Millions of Students Are Quietly Being Taught the Koch Brothers’ Whitewashed Version of Black History – Michael Harriot / The Root
National Geographic admits to its racist past – Rachel Leah / Salon
