National
Ta-Nehisi Coates’ brilliant inspiration: Remembering James Baldwin’s influence on his 91st birthday – Amy Kittelstrom / Salon
How Slavery’s Legacy Affects the Mental Health of Black Americans – Alma Carten / The New Republic
Are Americans More Pessimistic About Race – or More Realistic – David A. Graham / The Atlantic
A Dream Undone (Inside the Campaign to Roll Back the Voting Rights Act) – Jim Rutenberg / NYT
White people have a race – but everyone flips out when we talk about it – Jenee Desmond Harris / Vox
How Did Driving While Black Turn Deadly for Sandra Bland – Dan McClain / The Nation
Dylann Roof Wasn’t Charged With Terrorism Because He’s White – Julia Craven / NYT
Study: White people see Black Americans As Less Competent than “African-Americans” – German Lopez / Vox
Structural Racism Needs to Be a Presidential Campaign Issue – Jamil Smith / New Republic
How Privilege Became a Provocation – Parul Sehgal / NYT
How One Law Banning Ethnic Studies Led to its Rise – J. Winston Phippen / The Atlantic
Fearless Journalist and All-Round Badass Ida B. Wells Honored With Google Doodle – Dominique Mosbergen / Huff Post
One year after Eric Garner’s death, a quest for path out of police community hostility – Harry Bruinius / Christian Sci Monitor
Our Racial Moment of Truth – Isabel Wilkerson / NYT
What the Country Owes Harriet Tubman – Brent Staples / NYT
The radical chic of Ta – Nehisi Coates – Carlos Lozada / Wash Post
Black child poverty rate holds steady, even as other groups see declines – Eilleen Patten and Jens Manuel Krogstad / Pew Res Ctr
The Black President Some Worried About Has Arrived – Janell Ross / Wash Post
Prosecution Is About Locking Black People Up – Leon Neyfakh / Slate
Why 100 Black Intellectuals Rallied Behind This Professor – Dani McClain / The Nation
As the South Looks Backward – Jim Grimsley / Slate
Here Are the 10 States with The Most Hate Groups – Sam Stebbins / Huff Post
South Carolina’s losing battle to rewrite its racist history – Eugene Robinson / Wash Post
Black Churches Are Burning Again in America – Emma Green / The Atlantic
The Housing Recovery Has Skipped Poor and Minority Neighborhoods – David Dayen / The New Republic
Obama Administration to unveil major new rules targeting segregation across U.S. – Emily Badger / Wash Post
The Science of Race, Revisited – David Freeman / Huff Post
The Memorial Where Slavery is Real – Ben Wofford / Politico
Republicans Don’t Find Racism To Be As Serious A Problem As The Rest of America – Janie Velencia / Huff Post
The Declaration’s dual traditions: Broad equality and equality for whites – Danielle Allen / Wash Post
