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A Drumbeat of Multiple Shootings, but America Isn’t Listening – Sharon Lafraniere, Daniel Porat and Agustin Armendariz / NYT
Afro-Cuban Activists Fight Racism Between Two Fires – Sujatha Fernandes / The Nation
Justice Thomas Doesn’t See Anything Wrong With Excluding Jurors Based On Race – Ian Millhiser / Think Progress
The Supreme Court Just Sent a Strong Message About Racism in the Justice System – Stephanie Mencimer / Mother Jones
James Baldwin on “The Negro and the American Promise” / PBS
James Baldwin appears in Boston public television producer Henry Morgenthau III’s “The Negro and the American Promise,” alongside Martin Luther King and Malcolm X. The…
Without Jazz and Blues, There’s No Americana – David A. Graham / The Atlantic
The Permanence of the Confederate Flag – Nora Kelly / The Atlantic
Don’t look now, but Barack Obama is suddenly popular – Philip Bump / Wash Post
Steph and Ayesha Curry: Pro Sports’ Wholesome, All-American First Family – Amy Zimmerman / The Daily Beast
Collegiate Voices – What’s In a Name? For North Carolina Legislators, a Chance to Terminate HBCUs – Jarrett L. Carter / HBCU Digest
Two years ago, the New York Times editorial board told the nation that the state of North Carolina was burning on every key policy and social…
The Real Reason Why All The People Trump Wants To Put On The Supreme Court Are White – Ian Millhiser / Thinkprogress
A Million Questions From Descendants of Georgetown’s Slaves / NYT
Uncovering a Tale of Rocket Science, Race and the ’60s – Cara Buckley / NYT
Taraji P. Henson hates math, and Octavia Spencer has a paralyzing fear of calculus, but that didn’t stop either actress from playing two of the…
The Dangerous Acceptance of Donald Trump – Adam Gopnik / The New Yorker
Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, / As, to be hated, needs but to be seen,” the poet Alexander Pope wrote, in lines that were…
The Family Tree: A Lynching in Georgia, a Legacy of Secrets, and My Search for the Truth by Karen Branan
In the tradition of Slaves in the Family, the provocative true account of the hanging of four black people by a white lynch mob in…
Past Voices – A Blues for Albert Murray (1916 – 2013) – Thomas Chatterton Williams / The Nation
The name Albert Murray was never household familiar. Yet he was one of the truly original minds of 20th-century American letters. Murray, who died in…
This is how fascism comes to America – Robert Kagan / Wash Post
Here’s What You Should Know About The State Of Black America – Lilly Workneh / Huff Post
Make America Great Again for the People It Was Great for Already – Bryce Covert / NYT
Trump’s Asymmetric Warfare – Charles M. Blow / Wash Post
Black And Latino Students Lose Out To White Peers. And It’s Getting Worse – Rebecca Klein / Huff Post
120 Years After the Plessy Decision, Has Jim Crow Segregation Ended or Evolved? David Love – AtlBlackStar
Court Orders Mississippi Town To Desegregate Schools – Emma Brown / Wash Post
Roots: Official Trailer | Premieres Memorial Day 2016 | History / You Tube
ST. FRANCISVILLE, LA. — Cannons boomed, shaking the leaves off 50-foot trees. “Ready, I need fire on that hill!” an urgent voice yelled. Weapons were…
The invisible tax on teachers of color – U.S. Secretary of Education John King / Wash Post
America’s Cult of Ignorance Is No Match for Asia’s Cult of Intelligence – John W. Traphagan / The World Post
Has South Africa Lost Its Way? The ANC’s Unfulfilled Promise – Jessica Piombo and Cherrel Africa / Foreign Affairs
South Africa is in the middle of a period of political and economic unrest unlike anything the country has experienced since the end of apartheid…