National News
A New Face of White Supremacy: Plots Expose Danger of the ‘Base.’ By Neil MacFarquhar and Adam Goldman / NYT
Slavery, and American Racism, Were Born in Genocide. By Greg Grandin / The Nation
LeBron James opens up and reflects on Kobe Bryant after passing him on NBA scoring list. By Jeff Zillgitt / USA Today
How Republicans made millions on the tax cuts they pushed through Congress. By Peter Cary / Center for Public Integrity and Vox
Auschwitz survivors bear witness as anti-Semitic attacks rise. By Melissa Bell / CNN
The Neighborhoods We Will Not Share. By Richard Rothstein / NYT
Ella Baker’s Legacy Runs Deep. Know Her Name. By Barbara Ransby / NYT
More Slayings at Parchman as Mississippi Confronts Prison Crisis. By Rick Rojas / NYT
Rural Montana Had Already Lost Too Many Native Women. Then Selena Disappeared. By Jack Healy / NYT
The Necessity of the Indian Child Welfare Act. By Leah Litman and Matthew L M. Fletcher / The Atlantic
Featured – ‘Just Mercy’ Attorney Asks U.S. To Reckon With Its Racist Past And Present. By Terry Gross / NPR
In 2011, Michael Shannon was wrongly convicted of murder, even though two jurors voted to acquit him — a result of a Louisiana law rooted in discrimination. By Emily Bazelon / NYT Magazine
How 17 Outsize Portraits Rattled a Small Southern Town. By Audra D.S. Burch / NYT
State of emergency: High tension in Virginia as right-wing gun fanatics descend on Richmond. By Amanda Marcotte / Salon
One city’s reparations program that could offer a blueprint for the nation. by Eric Lutz / The Guardian
Joe Biden Doubles Down On A Racist Myth About Black Parents. By Michael Hobbes / HuffPost
Navy to Name Aircraft Carrier in Honor of Doris Miller, First African American to Receive Navy Criss, On MLK Day. By Seren Morris / Newsweek
Lack of diversity ‘pressures’ Yang to talk race. By Eugene Daniels / Politico
Lacking money and votes, Cory Booker fails to break through a crowded Democratic primary field. By Janell Ross / NBC News
Rep. Elijah Cummings’ widow running for Congress to ‘build on his legacy.’ By Veronica Stracqualursi / CNN
St. Louis Chief Prosecutor Accuses City, Police Union Of Racist Conspiracy In Lawsuit. By Rachel Lippmann / NPR
Jay-Z goes to bat for Mississippi prisoners and files federal lawsuit. By Corky Siemaszko / NBC News
An enslaved man was crucial to the Lewis and Clark expedition’s success. Clark refused to free him afterward. By Hannah Natanson / Wash Post
Wisconsin’s Conservative Voter Purge Fight Rages On. By Jud Lounsbury / The Progressive
Latino Voters Will Decide the 2020 Election. By Jorge Ramos / NYT
Ben Carson’s disturbing retreat on fair housing. By Editorial Board / Wash Post
