National
Driving While Black Has Gotten Even Worse – Tim Murphy / Mother Jones
Banking Black – Kia Gregory / The New Republic
Trump’s Judge Picks Could Boost Racial Bias in the Justice System For Generations – Cecilia Smith / Atl Black Star
Asian Groups See Bias in Plan to Diversify New York’s Elite Schools – Elizabeth A. Harris and Winnie Hu / NYT
The Education Of Bobby Kennedy — On Race – Karen Grigsby Bates / NPR Morning Edition
D’Souza’s Reward – Jamelle Bouie / Slate
The youngest mayor in America is set to experiment with a universal basic income – Walter Einenkel / Daily Kos
No longer ‘voiceless,’ Louisiana felons regain the right to vote – Kira Lerner / ThinkProgress
The Persistence of Whitewashing – Jason Silverstein / The New Republic
What’s a ‘Black Identity Extremist’? Groups Demand Trump DHS Release ‘Race Paper’ – Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan / Democracy Now
White America’s racial resentment is the real impetus for welfare cuts, study says – Caitllin Dewey / Wash Post
The US has an HIV epidemic – and its victims are gay black men – Stephen W Thrasher / The Guardian
Gentrification: Reversal of Historic White Flight Is Creating a New Black Flight – Cecilla Smith / Atl Black Star
The History of Lynching and the Present of Policing – Khalil Gibran Muhammad / The Nation
Black, Female and Running for Governor: Can She Win in the South? Jonathan Martin and Richard Fausset / NYT
At a Killer’s Sentencing, Native Americans Talk of Both Healing and Enduring Suspicions – Rahima Nasa / Propublica
Black and Latinx people face the greatest barriers to re-entry after prison; women fare worst – Rebecca Pilar Buckwalter Poza / Daily Kos
“It’s Time for Moral Confrontation”: New Poor People’s Campaign Stages Nationwide Civil Disobedience – Amy Goodman / Democracy Now
Trump’s brutal policies target the most vulnerable Americans – Katrina Vanden Heuvel / Wash Post
Ben Carson vs. the Fair Housing Act – The Editorial Board / NYT
Changing the Stories of Police Shooting with the Justice Teams Network – Sarah Jaffe / The Progressive
Unseen photographs of civil rights conflict in Birmingham, Alabama, 1963 – Greg Whitmore / The Guardian
Starbucks, Yale, and the Abuse of 911 Against Black Americans – Matt Ford / The New Republic
Russian Trolls Were Obsessed With Black Lives Matter – April Glaser / Slate
There’s No Good Excuse For The Racist Impact Of Michigan’s Medicaid Proposal – Arthur Delaney / HuffPost
How a Wave of Honest History Museums Is Changing Black Tourism – Ashton Lattimore / Slate
