National News
Teaching Slavery : A Dark Legacy Comes to Light. By Joe Heim / Wash Post
The ‘1619 Project’ Curriculum Challenges Teachers to Reframe U.S. History. By Madeline Will / Education Week
Remember that new SAT ‘adversity score’? That’s no longer happening. By Kendall Tramell and Chris Boyette / CNN
Desegregation Plan: Eliminate All Gifted Programs in New York. By Eliza Shapiro / NYT
Everyone is talking about 1619. But that’s not actually when slavery in America started. By Ciara Torres-Spelliscy / Wash Post
After shootings, El Paso and Latino groups amp up action against gun violence, white supremacy. By Suzanne Gamboa / NBC News
Aaron Burr, the Vice President best known for shooting Alexander Hamilton, had a secret biracial family. By Leah Asmelash / CNN
Nearly a third of Americans were alive during Jim Crow. By Phillip Bump / Wash Post
1619 and the cult of American innocence. By Zack Beauchamp / Vox
California’s Forgotten Confederate History. By Kevin Waite / The New Republic
Bernie Sanders unveils ambitious plan to reform nation’s criminal justice system. By Matthew Rozsa / Salon
Eric Garner decision: NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo fired, but justice still denied for Garner’s family. By Paul Butler / NBC News
Atlanta Child Murders Case Has Been Reopened. By EJ Dickson / Rolling Stone
The New American Homeless. By Brian Goldstone / The New Republic
How slavery became America’s first big business. By P.R. Lockhart / Vox
The Great Land Robbery: How Federal Policies Dispossessed Black Americans of Millions of Acres. By Amy Goodman / Democracy Now
A rural town confronts its buried history of mass killings of black Americans. By Teresa King / The Guardian
Push for Ethnic Studies in Schools Faces a Dilemma: Whose Stories to Tell. By Dana Goldstein / NYT
America’s Exclusionary Past and Present and the Judgment of History. By Michael Luo / The New Yorker
Beto O’Rourke Unveils Plan To Fight Gun Violence And White Nationalism. By Sanjana Karanth / HuffPost
Democrats and the FBI say white extremism is a huge problem. Trump disagrees. By Zachary B. Wolf / CNN
2020 Democrats Court Once Overlooked Native American Voters. By Kali Robinson / HuffPost
In order to understand the brutality of American capitalism, you have to start on the plantation. By Matthew Desmond / NYT
El Paso, racism and rhetoric: The growing toll of bigotry in America. By Janell Ross and Suzanne Gamboa / NBC News
The Impact of Racism on Children’s Health. By Perri Klass / NYT
Cory Booker Releases Plan To Combat White Supremacist Violence. By Sanjana Karanth / HuffPost
