National News
Why the racial wealth gap persists, more than 150 years after emancipation. By Calvin Schermerhorn / Wash Post
Mitch McConnell says America made up for slavery by electing Barack Obama. By Luke Barnes / ThinkProgress
No African American has won statewide office in Mississippi in 129 years – here’s why. John A. Tures and Seth Golden / The Conversation
Supreme Court hands Democrats a win in Virginia racial gerrymander case. By Ariane de Vogue, Ryan Nobles and Devan Cole / CNN
The Nonwhite Working Class. By Henry Grabar / Slate
Adidas Sells Diversity. Black Employees Say It Doesn’t Practice It. By Julie Creswell and Kevin Draper / NYT
California Governor Apologizes For State’s History Of Violence Against Native Americans. By Dominique Mosbergen / HuffPost
Twenty-five years ago, O.J. Simpson showed white Americans just how conditional their comfort with black athletes was. By Phillip Lamarr Cunningham / Wash Post
The Los Angeles County DA Has Put 22 People on Death Row. Not One of Them Was White. By Nathalie Baptiste / Mother Jones
After Oprah’s Central Park Five interview, you realize that a $41 million settlement will never be enough. By Ernest Owens / The Grio
House To Hold Reparations Hearing With Testimony From Ta-Nehisi Coates. By Errin Haines Whack / AP
Maryland has created a truth commission on lynchings – can it deliver? By Kelebogile Zvobogo / The Conversation
Report: Hundreds of Police Officers Belong to Racist Facebook Groups. By Michael Harriot / The Root
Racist Laws Took the Vote Away From Prisoners. After Serving Time, One Man Is Fighting to Give It Back to Them. By Samantha Michaels / Mother Jones
More and more workplace discrimination cases are being closed before they’re even investigated. By Maryam Jameel / Vox
New foreclosure crisis hitting after shady lenders targeted black seniors for reverse mortgages. By Laura Clawson / Daily Kos
Elizabeth Warren’s New Plan to Close the Racial Wealth Gap. By Jamil Smith / Rolling Stone
Hip-Hop’s Next Billionaires: Richest Rappers 2019. By Zack O’Malley Greenburg / Forbes
A former slave who was the first black Catholic priest takes a step toward sainthood. By Daniel Burke / CNN
23% of young black women now identify as bisexual. By Tristan Bridges and Mignon R. Moore / The Conversation
The Statue of Liberty was created to celebrate freed slaves, not immigrants, its new museum recounts. By Gillian Brockell / Wash Post
Racial Terror and the Second Repeal of Reconstruction. By Kimberle Williams Crenshaw / The New Republic
The Indian Law That Helps Build Walls. By Maggie Blackhawk / NYT
For Many Navajos, Getting Hooked Up To The Power Grid Can Be Life-Changing. By Laurel Morales / NPR
The Case to Impeach Trump for Bigotry. By Osita Nwanevu / The New Yorker
How Gentrification Brings Over-Policing for D.C.’s Black Residents. By Kenya Evelyn / The Daily Beast
