National
S. Allen Counter : Harvard neurophysiologist, explorer, ethnographer, social-justice advocate – Michael Paterniti / NYT
How the news media distorts black families – Nicole Rodgers and Rashad Robinson / Wash Post
Arizona Can’t Ban Mexican-American Studies Anymore, Judge Says – Roque Planas / HuffPost
Sessions Says to Courts: Go Ahead, Jail People Because They’re Poor – Chiraag Bains / NYT
Pot Legalization Is Transforming California’s Criminal Justice Landscape. Here’s How – Brandon E. Patterson / Mother Jones
The opioid epidemic has now reached black America – German Lopez / Vox
The Trump-Less Kennedy Center Honors – Sarah Ruhl / NYT
Confederate statues come down in Memphis – Emanuella Grinberg and Nicole Chavez / CNN
Dr. King’s Interconnected World – Drew Dellinger / NYT
Women of color in low-wage jobs are being overlooked in the #MeToo moment – P. R. Lockhart / Vox
How Grassroots Organizers Got Black Voters to the Polls in Alabama – Vann R. Newkirk II / The Atlantic
The New Mississippi Civil Rights Museum Refuses to Sugarcoat History – Holland Cotter / NYT
How the Seattle football team became the social justice warriors of the NFL – Tricia Romano / Rolling Stone
No One Is Talking About the Drug Crisis Killing Black People – Olivia Exstrum / Mother Jones
The past year of research has made it very clear: Trump won because of racial resentment – German Lopez / Vox
It’s still too easy to push blacks, minorities off of juries – Jeffrey Bellin / USA Today
GOP Tax Bill Could Turn America Into World’s Most Unequal Society, UN Expert Warns – Sarah Ruiz-Grossman / HuffPost
This video of jubilant students at a small-town Louisiana school inspired millions. Here’s why. Samantha Schmidt / Wash Post
Reports of Voter Suppression Tactics Pour In From Alabama Election – Pema Levy / Mother Jones
Federal report finds regression for black managers in financial services industry – Joe Davidson / Wash Post
Native Americans Feel Invisible In U.S. Health Care System – Eric Whitney / NPR
A reporter who stood up to far worse than journalists get from Trump – Eugene Robinson / Wash Post
Science has revealed how arbitrary racial categories are. Perhaps medicine will abandon them, too – Moises Velasquez-Manoff / NYT
A Century Later, a Little-Known Mass Hanging of Black Soldiers Still Haunts Us – James Jeffrey / The Progressive
The Republican Tax Bill Is a Poison Pill That Kills the New Deal – Heather Cox Richardson / Bill Moyers
Roland Martin’s popular news show has been cancelled – Sam Fulwood III / ThinkProgress
