National
Another sign of Elizabeth Warren’s relentless focus on inequality. By Jared Bernstein / Wash Post
The Good Ol’ Boys: 2 Years In, Trump Is Making Our Courts A Lot Less Diverse. By Jenifer Bendery / HuffPost
Recovering an erased history: The Chinese railroad workers who helped connect the country. By Chris Fuchs / NBC News
Facebook while black: Users call it getting ‘Zucked,’ say talking about racism is censored as hate speech. By Jessica Guynn / USA Today
The Other Segregation. By Whitney Pirtle / The Atlantic
Two more states are dumping Christopher Columbus to celebrate indigenous people instead. By Christina Maxouris / CNN
Mississippi, the only state with a Confederate symbol in its flag, is offering a new flag design on license plates. By Michelle Lou and Brandon Griggs / CNN
Closing the Racial Wealth Gap. By Courtney E. Martin / NYT
Arkansas To Remove Confederate Statue In U.S. Capitol, Add Johnny Cash, Daisy Bates. By Ed Mazza / HuffPost
Review: Essential History in ‘Reconstruction’ on PBS. By Mike Hale / NYT
When Slaveowners Got Reparations. By Tera W. Hunter / NYT
Vanderbilt Student Senate Approves Bill to Rename Calhoun Hall, Two More Buildings Due to Slave-Owning Past. By Jenni Fink / Newsweek
When Medical Schools Become Less Diverse. By Adam Harris / The Atlantic
Facing Segregated Schools, Parents Took Integration Into Their Own Hands. It’s Working. By Eliza Shapiro / NYT
Aretha Franklin wins posthumous 2019 Pulitzer Prize. By Associated Press
Trump and Pence tweeted about Notre Dame fire but said nothing when 3 black churches burned. By Eugene Scott / Wash Post
Can a Prosecutor Ever Truly Be Progressive? Ferguson May Be the Ultimate Test Case. By Jacob Rosenberg / Mother Jones
Jackie Robinson was asked to denounce Paul Robeson. Instead, he went after Jim Crow. By Johnny Smith / The Undefeated
Georgetown students vote to raise tuition by $27 per semester to pay slavery reparations. By Abigail Hess / CNBC
How the 2020 Democrats Responded to Trump’s Attacks on Ilhan Omar. By Astead W. Herndon / NYT
A Few More Black Students Are Offered Spots at Stuyvesant, Fanning Fresh Uproar. By Eliza Shapiro / NYT
Former ‘Ebony’ Publisher Declares Bankruptcy, And An Era Ends. By Karen Grigsby Rates / NPR
Letters from Joe Biden reveal how he sought support of segregationists in fight against busing. By Jeff Zeleny / CNN
The Utter Inadequacy of America’s Efforts to Desegregate Schools. By Alana Semuels / The Atlantic
Trump blocks U.S. from nominating anyone to U.N. racism committee. By Casey Michel / ThinkProgress
What does ‘white fragility’ mean? Facebook discussions about race add new words to dictionaries. By Jessica Guynn / USA Today
