National News
Prisons Are Already Retaliating Against Inmates Protesting ‘Modern Slavery’ – Tarpley Hitt / The Daily Beast
Andrew Gillum and the Extent of the Progressive Revolution – Benjamin Wallace-Wells / The New Yorker
In Alabama, Challenging Hidden Racial Discrimination – Lucas Guttentag / NYT
Why Are Black And Latino Kids More Likely To Die Of Certain Cancers? Erin Blakemore / NPR
George Wallace: A segregationist stand for America – Brian Lyman / USA Today
‘Silent Sam’: A racist Jim Crow-era speech inspired UNC students to topple a Confederate monument on campus – Antonia Noori Farzan / NYT
There Is More to Stacey Abrams Than Meets Partisan Eyes – Richard Fausset / NYT
Silicon Valley is leaving women of color behind – Sinduja Rangarajan / Salon
‘A shameful affair’: The last man lynched in Montgomery County, Md. – Eugene L. Meyer / Wash Post
Overlooked No More: Sissieretta Jones, a Soprano Who Shattered Racial Barriers – Michael Cooper / NYT
Trump has repeatedly attacked the NFL. That hasn’t stopped players from protesting – P.L. Lockhart / Vox
As a young reporter, I went undercover to expose the Ku Klux Klan – Dick Lehr / The Conversation
Brian Kemp’s Bid for Governor Depends on Erasing the Black Vote in Georgia – Mark Joseph Stern / Slate
Omarosa, Trump and the curse of being a black woman in America – Sophia A. Nelson / NBC News
Are Jews White? Atiya Husain / Slate
Why Native Americans struggle to protect their sacred places – Rosalyn R. LaPier / The Conversation
Voting Rights Advocates Used to Have an Ally in the Government. That’s Changing – Michael Wines / NYT
Study: 11 million white Americans think like the alt-right – Zack Beauchamp / Vox
White anxiety finds a home at Fox News – Brian Stelter / CNN
As Poor White People Seek To Justify Their Anger, the Demonization of Poor Black People Has Backfired – David Love / Atl Black Star
Before civil rights activist Medgar Evers was killed for his work there was Elbert Williams. His case is being reopened – Emanuella Grinberg / CNN
How 911 calls on blacks are a new twist on something old: white flight – John Blake / CNN
Chicago’s deadly summer: guns, gangs and the legacy of racial inequality – David Taylor / The Guardian
Ben Carson Declared Mission Accomplished in East St. Louis — Where Public Housing Is Still a Disaster – Molly Parker / ProPublica
Researchers are finding Confederate memorials faster than they’re being taken down – P.R. Lockhart / Vox
Think Confederate monuments are racist? Consider pioneer monuments – Cynthia Prescott / The Conversation
