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Research says there are ways to reduce racial bias. Calling people racist isn’t one of them – German Lopez / Vox
The renowned PBS journalist Gwen Ifill died on Monday, at the age of sixty-one – Jelani Cobb / The New Yorker
In Charleston, Coming to Terms With the Past – Ron Stodghill / NYT
The compulsion to engage the Charleston area’s complex history as a slave-trading center was, for the writer, a visceral thing, akin to the urge to…
‘Racial Battle Fatigue’ Is Real: Victims of Racial Microaggressions Are Stressed Like Soldiers in War – David Love / Atlanta Black Star
The real reason we have an Electoral College: to protect slave states – Sean Illing / Vox
Breitbart, Reveling in Trump’s Election, Gains a Voice in His White House – Michael M. Grynbaum and John Herrman / NYT
The Black Press and Black Journalist Face New Reality in the Era of Trump – Jason Johnson / The Root
The Alt-Right Hails Its Victorious God-Emperor – Andrew Marantz / The New Yorker
Racist Incidents And Attacks Surge at US Universities – Associated Press / Talkingpointsmemo
Two Americas in One Photograph – Vinson Cunningham / The New Yorker
After Barack Obama and Donald Trump met on Thursday in the Oval Office—this was the first time they’d ever formally met, which makes sense, I…
How Donald Trump Became President-Elect – John Cassidy / The New Yorker
How Donald Trump Brought (Some of) Us Together – Keli Goff / The Daily Beast
Race/Related: The non-white vote, explained / NYT
Legacy of bloody election day lingers in Florida town – Andrew Maraniss / The Undefeated
Behind 2016’s Turmoil, a Crisis of White Identity – Amanda Taub / NYT Magazine
Call it the crisis of whiteness. White anxiety has fueled this year’s political tumult in the West: Britain’s surprising vote to exit the European Union,…
Over six million Americans can’t vote due to felony convictions, including one in 13 black people – Stephen Wolf / Daily Kos
Net worth of white households in D.C. region is 81 times that of black households – Perry Stein / Wash Post
The Ku Klux Klan makes it official, endorses Donald Trump saying ‘Make America Great Again’ – Jen Hayden / Daily Kos
How Trump Has Helped the Christian Right Return to Its White Nationalist Roots – Brian Tashman / Right Wing Watch via AlterNet
A Region That Sees Racism as a Threat to Its Economy – Alexia Fernandez Campbell / The Atlantic
American Indians Killed by Cops at Highest Rate in the Nation, but They’re Invisible in the Media – Meteor Blades / Daily Kos via AlterNet
We Can’t Stop Looking at These Unforgettable Images of the Black Panthers – Mark Murrmann / Mother Jones
For the 50th anniversary of the Black Panther Party, two exceptional new books take on the legacy and history of one of the most powerful…
How America’s Past Shapes Native Americans’ Present – Alexia Fernandez Campbell / The Atlantic
White armed occupiers were acquitted. Native American activists were tear gassed – Laurel Raymond / ThinkProgress
A majority of Donald Trump supporters think everything has been terrible since the 1950s – Matthew Roza / Salon
Booked: When Slaveholders Controlled the Government, with Matthew Karp – Timothy Shenk / Dissent
The age of Trump largely exists because of a resurgent white racial identity – Eric D. Knowles and Linda R. Tropp / The New Republic
Many political commentators credit Donald Trump’s rise to white voters’ antipathy toward racial and ethnic minorities. However, we believe this focus on racial resentment obscures…
Segregation Begins in Pre-K – Michelle Chen / The Nation
Red Lines, Black Lives – How Housing Discrimination Created Inequality – Colin Gordon / Dissent
When Ta-Nehisi Coates’s made his influential “Case for Reparations” in the pages of the Atlantic in 2014, his focus, perhaps surprisingly, was not on slavery….
Indiana officials are trying to block almost 45,000 black citizens from voting – Kira Lerner / ThinkProgress
