National
Charlotte Was Different- An Unarmed black man killed by a white police officer – with an unfamiliar ending – Leon Neyfakh / Slate
LBJ signs bill abolishing immigration national origin quotas: Oct 3, 1965 – Andrew Glass / Politico
Ben Carson’s destructive lies: 4 racist assumptions endorsed and magnified by Black conservatives – Chauncey Devega / Salon
Black and white Americans use drugs at similar rates. One group is punished more for it – German Lopez / Vox
Mass Shootings Are Not The Real Problem – Jamelle Bouie / Slate
Justice Reform Bills Reflect Move Away From Mass Incarceration – Lauren Victoria Burke / The Root
Alabama, Birthplace of the Voting Rights Act, is Once Again Gutting Voting Rights – Ari Berman / The Nation
The Data Are Damning: How Race Influences School Funding – Gillian B. White / The Atlantic
Slavery Myths Debunked – Jamelle Bouie and Rebecca Onion / Slate
Has recognition that ‘black’ and brilliant coexist finally arrived – Steven W. Thrasher / The Guardian
The Slave-State Origins of Modern Gun Control – Saul Cornell and Eric M. Rubens / The Atlantic
Justice after Injustice : What happens after a wrongly convicted person is exonerated – Lara Bazelon / Slate
Prison Kids: join the fight Against the Mass Incarceration of Our Youth – The Root Staff / The Root
President Jimmy Carter: I Was The Only White Child In The Neighborhood – OWN / Huff Post
An Ohio town where races have mixed freely for more than 200 years – Kevin Williams / Wash Post
After Charleston: Recovery and Resistance since the Emanuel Nine – David Remnick / The New Yorker
Barack Obama just gave the most important racial justice speech of his presidency – Brittney Cooper / Salon
Government policies based on racist myths help dissolve black families – Syreeta McFadden / The Guardian
Race Is Always The Issue – Tressie McMillan Cotton / The Atlantic
Study Explains Why Ben Carson Won’t Help The Republican Party Win Black Voters – Kira lerner / thinkprogress
What Happened to German America ? – Erik Kirschbaum / NYT
Prison versus Harvard in an Unlikely Debate – Leslie Brody / Wall St Journal
The Number of Black Teachers Has Fallen in 9 Major Cities – Casey Quinlan / Thinkprogress
How the South’s Public Enemy No 1 Climbed Onto the Supreme Court – Annette Gordon-Reed / Wash Post
Ahmed Mohamed is just one example of the bigotry American Muslims face – Linda Sarcour / The Guardian
Ta-Nehisi Coates: “For African Americans, unfreedom is the historical norm ” – Ezra Klein / Vox
