The Black Middle Class Is About to Get Trumped – Lurie Daniel Favors / The Root
Everything we’ve been taught about “success” in this country and nearly every avenue we’ve used to achieve that success are now threatened by the same…
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Leaders are stoking human tendencies toward tribalism—but this instinct can be overcome more easily than once thought – James Hamblin / The Atlantic
The Tragic, Forgotten History of Black Military Veterans – Peter C. Baker / The New Yorker
In the week after the election, the Equal Justice Initiative, of Montgomery, Alabama, released a new report—a fifty-three-page addendum to last year’s “Lynching in America,” an…
White-Collar Supremacy : The Alt-right Movement – Kelly J. Baker / NYT
Tallahassee, Fla. — Richard B. Spencer is one of the main figures of the alt-right movement, a former doctoral student from Duke whose movement supports…
The Standing Rock Resistance Is Unprecedented (It’s Also Centuries Old) – Leah Donnella / NPR
‘Let’s party like it’s 1933’: Inside the alt-right world of Richard Spencer – John Woodrow Cox / Wash Post
Anti-Defamation League Official: Racist Incidents ‘A Wake-Up Call’ – NPR Staff
Sweeping New Rutgers Report Reveals University’s Ties to Slavery & Displacement of Native Americans – Juan Gonzalez / Democracy Now
A sweeping new report reveals ties to slavery and the displacement of the Native Americans at one of the country’s top colleges. The findings about…
Trump Advisers Call for National Muslim Registry, Echoing Nazis’ Early Steps in Targeting Jews – Steven Rosenfeld / Alternet
The love story that changed history: Fascinating photographs of interracial marriage at a time when it was banned in 16 states – Lydia Warren / Daily Mail
Just 45 years ago, 16 states deemed marriages between two people of different races illegal. But in 1967, the U.S. Supreme Court considered the case…
Race/Related: Conversations. Trump Voters. On Race – Rachel L. Swarns / NYT
The Identity Politics of Whiteness – Laila Lalami / NYT Magazine
White Nationalists Celebrate ‘an Awakening’ After Donald Trump’s Victory – Alan Rappeport and Noah Weiland / NYT
White nationalism, a term once on the fringes, now front and center : What is it? – Joe Sterling / CNN
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
