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St. Louis Responds to a Rise in Anti-Semitism – Daniel A. Gross / The New Yorker
On Monday, more than a hundred and fifty gravestones were found damaged or toppled at a historic Jewish cemetery near St. Louis. As soon as…
Supreme Court tosses out racist death sentence – Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress
What Is the Community Doing to Address Chicago’s Gun Violence? David Love / Atlanta Black Star
A history of sanctuary cities: How Black Americans protected fugitive slaves – Barbara Krauthamer / Salon
The Black Activist Who Fought Against D. W. Griffith’s “The Birth of a Nation” – Richard Brody / The New Yorker
The Betsy DeVos cartoon saga was an unintentional reminder of the staying power of white nationalism – Jenee Desmond-Harris / Vox
The Failure of Race-Blind Economic Policy – Adia Harvey Wingfeld / The Atlantic
After Donald Trump’s presidential victory, many left-leaning politicians and commentators started considering what sort of message would help them regain political power. Given the clear…
Let’s Become Great Again,’ the Flyers Said – Anna North / NYT
The Trump Administration’s Lies About Voter Fraud Will Lead to Massive Voter Suppression – Ari Burman / Bill Moyers
Louisiana Republican’s interference with New Orleans police reform foreshadows Trump backlash – Alan Pyke / ThinkProgress
The Return of Border Discrimination – Shakeer Rahman / Dissent
First-Ever Tracker Of Hate Crimes Against Asian-Americans Launched – Jenny J. Chen / NPR
The biggest beneficiaries of the government safety net: Working-class whites – Tracy Jan / Wash Post
Working-class whites are the biggest beneficiaries of federal poverty-reduction programs, even though blacks and Hispanics have substantially higher rates of poverty, according to a new…
Historic black cemeteries seeking the same support Virginia gives Confederates – Gregory S. Schneider / Wash Post
What’s Killing America’s Black Infants? Zoe Carpenter / The Nation
Five myths about Frederick Douglass – Henry Louis Gates and John Stauffer / Wash Post
The Big Reason Whites Are Richer Than Blacks in America – Peter Coy / Bloomberg Businessweek
White immigrants weren’t always considered white — and acceptable – Brando Simeo Starkey / The Undefeated
Who, exactly, is white? The answer sounds obvious — we know a white person when we see one, we think. But when Italians poured into…
Yale Will Drop John Calhoun’s Name From Building – Noah Remnick / NYT
Why Tamron Hall Walked Away from Today: ‘She Wasn’t Going to Settle for Sitting on the Sidelines’ – Jamine Rubenstein / MSN
Integration Works. Can It Survive the Trump Era? Thomas B. Edsall / NYT
The 2016 election deepened the chasm between those voters who believe that the government should address the problems of the poor and those who are…
Judge orders NYPD to disclose surveillance records of Black Lives Matters activists – Lauren C. Williams / ThinkProgress
Oklahoma City Exposes the Origins of Today’s White Nationalism – Brandon Harris / New Republic
Read the letter Coretta Scott King wrote opposing Sessions’s 1986 federal nomination – Wesley Lowery / Wash Post
Coretta Scott King, the widow of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., urged Congress in a letter to block the 1986 nomination of Jeff Sessions…
In Search of the Slave Who Defied George Washington – Jennifer Schulessler / NYT
MOUNT VERNON, Va. — The costumed characters at George Washington’s gracious estate here are used to handling all manner of awkward queries, whether about 18th-century…
These Families Wanted ‘Hugs Not Walls’ As They Reunited At The Border – Carolina Moreno / Huff Post
