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Bind Us Apart: How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation by Nicholas Guyatt
Why did the Founding Fathers fail to include blacks and Indians in their cherished proposition that “all men are created equal”? The usual answer is…
Coverage of black female victims of police brutality falls short: Column – Meredith Clark / USA Today
How One Mississippi District Made Integration Work -Jackie Mader / Huff Post
Chicago After Laquan McDonald – Ben Austen / NYT
When School Districts Get Deliberate About Desegregation – Emily Deruy / The Atlantic
The Census Bureau Will Pay $15 Million For Racial Discrimination After The Recession – Carimah Townes / Think Progress
Racial Discrimination and Capital Punishment: The Indefensible Death Sentence of Duane Buck – Lincoln Caplan / The New Yorker
How American oligarchs created the concept of race to divide and conquer the poor – Courtland Miloy / Wash Post
While teaching U.S. history at a public charter high school in the District, Julian Hipkins III noticed that students tended to assume that “race” was…
Harriet Tubman is perfect for the $20 bill, but which Tubman? Philip Kennicott / Wash Post
Cops Are Still Killing People, But The Nation Has Stopped Paying Attention – Nick Wing and Julia Craven / Huff Post
Cable News Is Getting Whiter, And The Timing Is Terrible – Zeba Blay / Huff Post
We Need to Build a Voting-Rights Movement – Rep. John Conyers and Barbara Arnwine / The Nation
Here’s how Miles Davis and Nina Simone were alike and different – Michael J. West / Wash Post
Kill ‘Em and Leave: Searching for James Brown and the American Soul by James McBride
National Book Award winner James McBride goes in search of the “real” James Brown after receiving a tip that promises to uncover the man behind…
New Natural Hair Magazine Sets A New Standard For Black Women’s Beauty – Lilly Workneh / Huff Post
The racism of good intentions – Carlos Lozada / Wash Post
Society Sees Me Differently When I Straighten My Hair – Stephanie Hines / Huff Post
What White Millennials Say About Being White / The Whiteness Project
Whiteness Project is an interactive investigation into how Americans who identify as white, or partially white, understand and experience their race. Whiteness Project is conducting…
White America’s Obama-era freakout: What research can tell us about racial animus since 2008 – Sean McElwee / Salon
Millions of White Americans Are Dealing With Economic Pain They Haven’t Seen for Decades – Tim Wise / Alternet
America’s Changing Racial Makeup Won’t Magically Save the Democratic Party – Julianne Hing / The Nation
Read the Speech Bernie Sanders Gave at the Vatican – Time
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is speaking at the Vatican Friday, April 8, 2016, praising Pope Francis and denouncing income inequality. The Democratic presidential candidate, who is…
Collegiate Voices – Black Colleges Seek White, Latino, Asian Students Amid Tight State Budgets – Theresa Wiltz / Huff Post
In all, a quarter of HBCUs have at least a 20 percent non-black student population. Read more
Why Underground’s Rosalee and Noah Have the Best Black Relationship on TV – Demetria Lucas D’oyley / The Root
Behind the Birmingham Letter – Chris Bodennner / The Atlantic
D.C.’s grim, unfinished business, 154 years after emancipation – Colbert I. King / Wash Post
