National News
Lori Lightfoot Wins Chicago Mayor Race, Will Be First Black Woman In Role. By Sanjana Karanth / HuffPost
On Equal Pay Day, A Reminder That The Gap Is Far Greater For Women Of Color. By Ryan Grenoble / HuffPost
How the Southern Poverty Law Center got Rich Fighting the Klan. By Editorial Staff / The Progressive
An Invisible Crisis: Native American Tribes Ravaged by Opioids Take On Purdue Pharma & the Sacklers. By Amy Goodman / Democracy Now
A very deep kind of patriotism’: Memorial to honor Native American veterans is coming to the Mall. By Dana Hedgpeth / Wash Post
Facebook Bans White Nationalism And Separatism Content From Its Platforms. By Sasha Ingber / NPR
Segregation Has Been the Story of New York City’s Schools for 50 Years. By Eliza Shapiro / NYT
‘A State of Emergency’: Native Americans Stranded for Days by Flooding. By Mitch Smith / NYT
Effort to Legalize Marijuana in New Jersey Collapses. By Nick Corasaniti / NYT
Unequal Justice: The Supreme Court Tackles Political Gerrymandering, Again. By Bill Blum / The Progressive
Who has the best hair in the NCAA tournament? By Jessie Washington / The Undefeated
Being Black in a White Academic World. By Jemelle Bouie, Rachelle Hampton, Aisha Harris and Carvell Wallace / Slate
Human Genomics Research Has A Diversity Problem. By Jonathan Lambert / NPR
Florida Republicans vote to strip most felons of voting rights unless they pay “poll tax.” By Igor Derysh / Salon
Facebook Won’t Let Employers, Landlords or Lenders Discriminate in Ads Anymore. By Jack Gillum and Ariana Tobin / ProPublica
The entrenched segregation of New York City’s public high schools. By Rachel Leah / Salon
The internet is radicalizing white men. Big tech could be doing more. By Alex Koppelman / CNN
Fewer Than 20 Percent Of Americans Say Trump Opposes White Nationalism. By Ariel Edwards-Levy / HuffPost
Admissions scandal reveals ‘aristocracy masquerading as a meritocracy.’ By Ronald Brownstein / CNN
The college admissions scam opens a new front in the affirmative action debate. By John Blake / CNN
New York’s Most Elite High School Admits Just Seven Black Students in a Class of 900. By Molly Olmstead / Slate
Justices take up racial bias in Mississippi jury selection. By The Associated Press
Can Florida go from swing state to blue? Andrew Gillum wants to try. By Addy Baird / ThinkProgress
Excluded by banks, minorities in California became their own lenders. By Frank Shyong / LATimes
The Myth of White Meritocracy. By Linda Wiggins-Chavis / The Progressive
Who “belongs” at elite universities? The raging hypocrisy of higher ed gatekeeping. By Rachel Leah / Salon
