Opinion
President-elect Donald Trump is a historical shock — unless you study American history – Chauncey Devega/ Salon
America Elects a Bigot – Charles M. Blow / NYT
Donald J. Trump is president-elect of the United States. Now there’s a sentence I never thought I’d write. Against all odds and against all forms…
Homeless in America – Thomas L. Freidman / NYT
I began election night writing a column that started with words from an immigrant, my friend Lesley Goldwasser, who came to America from Zimbabwe in…
Harry Belafonte: What Do We Have to Lose? Everything / NYT
O, yes, I say it plain, America never was America to me, And yet I swear this oath — America will be!” — Langston Hughes,…
Beyond Lying: Donald Trump’s Authoritarian Reality – Jason Stanley / NYT
Republicans are now vowing Total War. And the consequences could be immense – Paul Waldman / Wash Post
America will become more racist regardless who wins the election – Marcus Ruiz Evans / Race Inquiry
America will become more racist – after the election. Regardless of who wins. And it has absolutely nothing to do with Donald Trump. It feels…
The Roots of Trump and the Tea Party: The Hidden Injuries of Class, Race and Culture – Robert Kuttner / Alternet
Trump’s Inconvenient Racial Truth – Nikole Hannah-Jones / NYT Magazine
The Miseducation of the White Man: How Our Education System Failed White Voters – George Theoharis / The Root
Here’s What Nobody Understands About Race in America – Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet
Clarence Thomas’s Twenty-Five Years Without Footprints – Jeffrey Toobin / The New Yorker
The Most Astute Analysis of American Politics in 2016? SNL’s “Black Jeopardy!” Sketch. – Jamelle Bouie / Slate
‘Too Bad You’re Latin,’ But Sounds Familiar to African Americans – John Leguizamo / NYT
How Kids Learn Prejudice – Katherine D. Kinzler / NYT Sunday Review
Donald Trump is the white boomers’ last gasp — believe it or not, the future looks brighter – David Masciotra / Salon
Past Voices – Why We Need A Posthumous Presidential Pardon For Marcus Garvey – Julius W. Garvey / Huff Post
For young black activists, an urgent task: Persuading peers to vote – Venessa Williams / Wash Post
This Election Is Being Rigged—but Not by Democrats – Ari Berman / The Nation
I see light in the darkness – a backlash against bigotry is under way – Natalie Nougayrede / The Guardian
Despite Widespread Failure, Corruption and Resegregation of Public Schools, the Post and Times Try to Tell the NAACP What to Do About Charter Schools – Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet
Steve Bannon’s Vision for the Trump Coalition After Election Day – Ryan Lizza / The New Yorker
The Real Nat Turner by Molefi Kete Asante / Temple University
Beyond the pale: White privilege thy name is Donald Trump – Chauncey Devega / Salon
Biracial, and also Black – Martha S. Jones / CNN
Past Voices – W.E.B. Du Bois -From Assimilationist to Antiracist / Race Inquiry
In the September 1933 issue of The Crisis, Du Bois published “On Being Ashamed,” a look back at the lifelong course of his own thinking,…
