National News
Our democracy’s founding ideals were false when they were written. Black Americans have fought to make them true. By Nicole Hannah-Jones / NYT
A history of anti-Hispanic bigotry in the United States. By Marie Arana / Wash Post
Chicken Plants See Little Fallout From Immigration Raids. By Scott Horsley / NPR
Trump’s DOJ hid shocking report on growing terror threat from white supremacists. By Igor Derysh / Salon
5 Years After Michael Brown Shooting, Slow Signs Of Progress. By Jason Rosenbaum / NPR
A battle to give African Americans political power is playing out in Mississippi’s courts. By Danielle McLean / ThinkProgress
In one of the country’s ‘healthiest’ states, obesity plagues black and Hispanic people. By Markian Hawryluk / CNN
World Reacts to El Paso Shooting and the Hate That Fueled It. By Richard Perez-Pena and Megan Specia / NYT
White nationalism-fueled violence is on the rise, but FBI is slow to call it domestic terrorism. By Elisha Fieldstadt and Ken Dilanian / NBC News
A Catholic bishop in Texas is publicly accusing President Trump of racism. By Daniel Burke / CNN
The El Paso shooting isn’t an anomaly. It’s American history repeating itself. By Zack Beauchamp / Vox
Minutes Before El Paso Killing, Hate-Filled Manifesto Appears Online. By Tim Arango, Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs and Katie Benner / NYT
America has a housing segregation problem. Seattle may just have the solution. By Dylan Mattews / Vox
Trump Wants to Make It Harder to Claim Housing Discrimination. By Peter Wade / Rolling Stone
Immigration, Nationalism And America’s Founders. By Stuart Anderson / Forbes
“The Most Important Place in the World”: On Puerto Rico and the Freedom Struggle. By Dan Berger / AAIHS
The Nuns Who Bought and Sold Human Beings. By Rachel L. Swarns / NYT
Robots and Racism: New Study Suggests That Humans Apply Racial Biases, Stereotypes to Black and White Robots. By Tanasia Kenney / AtlBlackStar
Trump’s Racist Comments Have Spawned Violent Threats Against Lawmakers of Color. By Abigail Weinberg / Mother Jones
Kushner properties under renewed scrutiny after Trump calls Baltimore a “rodent infested mess.” By Matthew Rozsa / Salon
Trump’s racism is an impeachable offense. The precedent of Andrew Johnson proves it. By Peter Irons / NBC News
Ronald Reagan’s Long-Hidden Racist Conversation With Richard Nixon. By Tim Naftali / The Atlantic
Journey to power: The history of black voters, 1976 to 2020. By Steve Kornacki / NBC News
AG Barr using unique power to block migrants from U.S., reshape immigration law. By Lisa Riordan Seville and Adiel Kaplan / NBC News
National Cathedral On Trump’s Racist Comments: ‘Have We No Decency?’ By Sanjana Karanth / HuffPost
White Women Slave Owners, Economics, and the Law. By Terri L. Snyder / AAIHS
