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I Won’t Be Silent’: Serena Williams on the Fear of Driving While Black – Christine Hauser / NYT
Clinton on fatal police shootings: ‘Protecting all of God’s children’ a duty – Associated Press / The Guardian
Frequent Exposure to Shootings of Black People Can Cause PTSD-Like Trauma, Research Says – Tanasia Kenney / Atlanta Black Star
Understanding the Legacy of the Attica Prison Uprising – Lewis M. Steel / The Nation
What Donald Trump Got Wrong on Stop-and-Frisk – Jim Dwyer / NYT
U.S. owes black people reparations for a history of ‘racial terrorism,’ says U.N. panel – Ishaan Tharoor / Wash Post
Donald Trump Refuses To Apologize To Black Community For Birtherism: ‘I Say Nothing’ – Arthur Delaney / Huff Post
Charlotte street protests: Where the new South meets the old South – Patrik Jonsson / Christian Sci Monitor
How Did Chicago Get So Violent? Leon Neyfakh / Slate
Lonnie Bunch: Even if you’re white, ‘the story of slavery is still your story’ – Jonathan Capehart / Wash Post
Read President Obama’s Dedication At America’s First National Museum For Black History – Sam Levine / Huff Post
Restoring Black History : The National Museum of African American History and Culture – Henry Louis Gates Jr. / NYT
Meet the Horde of Neo-Nazis, Klansmen, and Other Extremist Leaders Endorsing Donald Trump – David Neiwert and Sarah Posner / Mother Jones
Donald Trump wants to bring back the “tough on crime” policies that helped cause mass incarceration – German Lopez / Vox
Trump hasn’t always been very specific when it comes to criminal justice policy. But there have been some very big clues. For the past few…
Collegiate Voices – Black students say American University isn’t listening to them – Casey Quinlan / ThinkProgress
Criminal Justice Is Becoming a ‘Latino Issue’ – Juleyka Lantigua-Williams / The Atlantic
We’re at peak “white racial apocalypse”: The enduring toxic myths fueling Obama backlash, “all lives matter” and Donald Trump – Philip Eil / Salon
Four Ways Trump Is Wrong About Black Americans – Andrew McGill / The Atlantic
Hillary Clinton Speaks ‘Directly to White People’ in Wake of Police Shooting: ‘This Is Not Who We Are’ – Kristen West Savali / The Root
Terence Crutcher is just the latest in a long history of the killing of black men in Tulsa – Lorraine Berry / Raw Story
The Racial Wage Gap Between Black And White Workers Is Getting Worse – Daniel Marans / Huff Post
Solving Chicago’s Murders Could Prevent More – Alex Kotlowitz / The New Yorker
The Racist Roots of Welfare Reform : American welfare policy historically targeted poor black families – Alma Carten / New Republic
27 Million Potential Hispanic Votes. But What Will They Really Add Up To ? Marcela Valdes / NYT
Did You Know We Are Having the Largest Prison Strike in History? Probably Not, Because Most of the Media Have Ignored It – Adam Johnson / Alternet
Can the South Make Room for Reconstruction? Bill Rauch / The Atlantic
I, Too, Sing America – The National Museum of African American History and Culture ( A Photographic Tour) – NYT
Texas Textbook Called Out As ‘Racist’ Against Mexican-Americans – Laura Isensee / NPR
Standing Firm At Standing Rock — Native Americans Face Dogs And Pepper Spray To Protect Ancestral Lands – Karen E. Quinones Miller / Huff Post
A 94-year-old federal judge defends voting rights in a fiery, impassioned, historic dissent – Mark Joseph Stern / Slate
Ohio Keeps Making It Harder to Vote – Ari Berman / The Nation
Black voters were five times more likely than whites to cast a ballot during the early voting days eliminated by Ohio Republicans. The Supreme Court declined…































