National
What Mississippi Taught Bobby Kennedy About Poverty – Ellen B. Meacham / NYT
Texas voter ID law was designed to discriminate against minorities, judge rules – Paul J. Weber / Wash Post
Sonia Sotomayor: Not Everyone Can Just Pull Themselves ‘Up By The Bootstraps’ – Carolina Moreno / Huff Post
‘It Did Not Stick’: The First Federal Effort to Curb Police Abuse – Sheryl Gay Stolberg / NYT
America’s forgotten crisis: over 50% of one Native American tribe are homeless – Julian Brave NoiseCat / The Guardian
Why black lives still matter – Peniel E. Joseph / New Republic
An elite police squad was supposed to clean up the streets of 1970s Detroit. Instead, it terrorized African Americans – Mark Binelli / New Republic
The New Champions of School Integration – Richard Kahlenberg / The Atlantic
Donald Trump, Jews and the myth of race: How Jews gradually became “white,” and how that changed America – Jonathan Zimmerman / Salon
How Jeff Sessions wants to bring back the war on drugs – Sari Horwitz / Wash Post
Federal judge approves Baltimore police consent decree – Peter Hermann and Sari Horwitz / Wash Post
James Cone and Taylor Branch on MLK’s Fight for Economic Equality – Bill Moyers
On the 49th Anniversary of MLK’s Assassination, Activists Are Marching for the Causes He Championed – P.R. Lockhart / Mother Jones
No sympathy: How Ayn Rand’s “elitism” lives on in the Trump administration – Firmin Debrabander / The Conversation via Salon
Missing black and Latina children are a crisis for all of us – Roxanne Jones / CNN
Sweeping Federal Review Could Affect Consent Decrees Nationwide – Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Eric Lichtblau / NYT
Diversity doesn’t make racism magically disappear – Daniel Jose Camacho / The Guardian
Bill O’Reilly’s Racist Comment Is Rooted in America’s Racist Past – Collier Meyerson / The Nation
Rise in Hate Crimes Spurs States to Enhance Protections – Nikita Biryukov / NBC
Whether proudly assimilated or quietly undocumented, Indians are feeling the hostility of Trump’s America – Henry Grabar / Slate
When veterans become cops, some bring war home – Simone Weichselbaum and Beth Schwatzapfel / USA Today
White Flight Followed Factory Jobs out of Gary, Indiana—Black People Didn’t Have a Choice – Chris Arnade / The Guardian via Alternet
Civil Rights Icon, Historian Roger Wilkins Dead at 85 – Tanasia Kenney / Atl Black Star
New report details costs of segregation in Chicago – Henry Grabar / Slate
Two months out of office, Barack Obama is having a post-presidency like no other – Krissah Thompson and Juliet Eilperin / Wash Post
An Alabama Prison’s Unrelenting Descent Into Violence – Campbell Robertson / NYT
This article is very disturbing and excellently researched. However, there are no racial statistics of the inmate population presented. The Black community in Alabama represents…
Black Teachers Matter – Kristina Rizga / Mother Jones
White Supremacists Are Now Targeting High Schools – Jason Le Miere / Newsweek via Alternet
Why the white middle class is dying faster – Julia Belluz / Vox
Betsy DeVos’s “School Choice” Fallacy – Graham Vyse / New Republic
