National
60 Years Later, What Can Activist learn from the Montgomery Bus Boycott – Michel Martin / NPR
The Struggle for Justice on Tribal Lands – Ned Black Hawk / NYT
Black Football Players Should All Strike: The One Immediate Move Guaranteed to Bring About Immediate Change – Steve Almond / Salon
Woodrow Wilson was extremely racist – even by the standards of his time – Dylan Matthews / Vox
There is No Ferguson Effect – Leon Neyfakh / Slate
The Shadows of a New American Facism: Why Our Surging Xenophobia Could Have Some Very Dangerous Consequences – Heather Digby Parton / Salon
Black Americans more susceptible to nonfatal force by police, DOJ says – Anu Narayanswamy / Wash Post
Being White Makes It a Lot Easier to Get a Home Loan in Baltimore – Gillian B. White / The Atlantic
Why Missouri Has Become The Heart of Racial Tension in America – Daniel Marans and Mariah Stewart / Huff Post
How Black Lives Matter born on the streets, is rising to power on campus – Sandhya Somashekhar / Wash Post
This is America in the age of decay: How we became a civilization dominated by racism and rage – Daniel Denuir / Salon
Campus racism makes minority students likelier to drop out of college. Mizzou students had to act – Andre M. Perry / Wash Post
The Psychological Toll of Racism in the Wake of Mizzou – Zeba Blay / Huff Post
What Divides Us? An interview with Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway – Jelani Cobb / The New Yorker
Tale of Two Campuses: White and Black Mizzou – Erica Wright / Huff Post
A racial reckoning on campuses is overdue. The protests at Missouri won’t be the last – Libby Nelson / Vox
U. Missouri unrest a signal for other schools, experts say – Yamiche Alcindor / USA Today
Why the Mizzou Protests Are a Watershed Moment in Sports Activism – Maxwell Strachan / Huff Post
If you care about this week at Mizzou, you should know the story of the Black 14 – Adam Kilgore / Wash Post
Toward Basic Rights for College Athletes – Taylor Branch / The Atlantic
Police Killings Surpass the Worst Years of Lynching, Capital Punishment and a Movement Responds – Jerome Karabel / Huff Post
Slavery, the Nazis and the KKK: We can’t face the past and it’s poisoning our future – Andrew O’Hehir / Salon
White Republicans are revolting: They keep winning elections and keep getting angrier – David T.S. Jonas / Salon
The Dying of the Whites – Ross Douthat / NYT
Racism? By whom? This video of Texas cops stopping a black professor is a racial “Rorschach test’ – Michael Miller / Wash Post
Death Rates Rising for Middle Aged White Americans, Study Finds – Gina Kolata / NYT
Obama’s big push to address race, quietly – Harry Bruinius / Christian Sci Monitor
America’s White Working Class is a Dying Breed – Harold Myerson / Wash Post
Ten Confederate Memorials That are Somehow Still Standing – Kali Holloway / Salon via Alternet
The Supreme Court Takes on the All-White Jury – Spencer Amdur / New Republic
