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Feature – White America’s ‘Broken Heart’ – Charles M. Blow / NYT
On Sunday, at the Corinthian Baptist Church in Des Moines, former President Bill Clinton, looking frail and sounding faint, stumped for his wife, working through…
Young black men in Chicago: Out of work, out of school, and out of luck – Sher Watts Spooner / Daily Kos
College is still for white people: Our universities have become a hostile place for African-Americans – Lawrence Ross / Salon
Segregation Now, Segregation Tomorrow, Segregation Forever? Adia Harvey Wingfield / The Atlantic
How Racism And Anti-Tax Fervor Laid The Groundwork For Flint’s Water Crisis – Bryce Covert / ThinkProgress
To Fix the Racial Wealth Gap, We Need Solutions That Sound Radical – Steve Phillips / theNation
U.N. Group Says U.S. Should Consider Reparations – Jessie J. Holland / US News
U. of Alabama activists renew a long conversation about race – Nick Anderson/ Wash Post
On the Beat of Black Lives and Bloodshed – Trymaine Lee / NYT
All Hollowed Out ( The lonely poverty of the white working class) – Victor Tan Chen / The Atlantic
North Carolina voter-ID case could have ramifications across U.S. – Sari Horwitz / Wash Post
The Disappearance of a Distinctively Black Way to Mourn – Tiffany Stanley / The Atlantic
Five myths about Reconstruction – James W. Loewen / Wash Post
Barack Obama’s Irrefutable Victory for Racial Justice – Algernon Austin / Nation
A tale of two towns reveals tipping point for America’s suburbs – Henry Gass / Christian Sci Monitor
The Moynihan Report Resurrected – Sam Klug / Dissent
Reverend Barber’s Blueprint for Reconstructing a Racist America – Rev. William J. Barber / Alternet
President Obama, Please Come to Flint – Michael Moore / AlterNet
‘Whiteness History Month’ Stirs Up Controversy At Oregon College – Michael Mclaughlin / Huff Post
The unbearable whiteness of Hollywood: The Academy should be ashamed—but the problem is bigger than the Oscars – Jack Mirkinson / Salon
America’s Other Original Sin – Rebecca Onion / Slate
For Martin Luther King’s Birthday, Black Leaders as Obituaries Portrayed Them – Sam Roberts / NYT
Texas marks racial slaughter more than a century later -Tim Madigan / Wash Post
When Anger Trumped Progress (Reconstruction 1865-1872) – Jon Grinspan / Wash Post
White privilege’ just made an appearance in the presidential race. It’s about time – Janell Ross / Wash Post
Unarmed truth: How race permeated but was left out of Obama’s address – Vann R Newkirk / Daily Kos
