National News
Democrats Plan Separate Fix For Voting Rights Act To Make Chief Justice Roberts Happy. By Paul Blumenthal / HuffPost
After more than 200 attempts, the Senate has finally passed anti-lynching legislation. By P.R. Lockhart / Vox
Trump Administration Scraps Guidance That Protects Students From Racist Discipline. By Rebecca Klein / HuffPost
Fighting Rent-to-Own Racism This Christmas. By Aaron Ross Coleman / NYT
The Enduring Russian Propaganda Interests in Targeting African-Americans. By Jelani Cobb / The New Yorker
Senate Passes Bipartisan Criminal Justice Bill. By Nicholas Fandos / NYT
Meet New York’s Letitia James: Why Donald Trump’s worst legal nightmare is not Robert Mueller. By Alex Henderson / AlterNet
The Quiet Crisis Killing Black Women. By Mellissa Jeltsen / HuffPost
The State Where Black Women Are Twice as Likely to Die of Cervical Cancer as White Women. By Michelle Chen / HuffPost
Overlooked No More: Elizabeth Keckly, Dressmaker and Confidante to Mary Todd Lincoln. By Nancy Wartik / NYT
Remembering Rosanell Eaton, An Outspoken Advocate for Voting Rights. By Leslie Ovalle / NPR
The Rise of Right-Wing Extremism and How U.S. Law Enforcement Ignored it. By Michael Barbaro, Ike Sriskandarajah, and Larissa Anderson / NYT
Oldest Institution of Southern Baptist Convention Reveals Past Ties to Slavery. By Adeel Hassan / NYT
After the DNA debacle, Elizabeth Warren’s outreach to minority communities makes a pivot. By Eugene Scott / Wash Post
Congress will have more Latino members than ever before. By Luis Alonso Lugo / Associated Press
HBCU Bennett College Could Close If It Can’t Raise $5 Million By February. By Ashleigh Atwell / Blavity
How activists are fighting racial disparities in school discipline. Mark R. Warren / The Conversation
The overlooked heroes of the civil rights movement. Remembering Howard Thurman and other forgotten activists. David B. Gowler / Wash Post
Lorraine Hansberry, American radical: She pushed RFK to make “a moral commitment” on civil rights. Imani Perry / Salon
Confederate plaque removed from W. Virginia county courthouse following vote. Joe Heim / Wash Post
Absentee-ballot fraud scandal speaks to wider issue of racism in North Carolina. Khushbu Shah / The Guardian
Minneapolis Confronts Its History of Housing Segregation. Henry Grabar / Slate
Beto O’Rourke sounding out prominent black Democrats as he ponders presidential bid. Garrett Haake and Mike Memoli / NBC News
Another Democrat gets a 2020 look: Andrew Gillum. Marc Caputo and Alex Thompson / Politico
Republicans are undermining democracy state by state. Russ Feingold / The Guardian
Mitch McConnell is personally denying Donald Trump a win that nearly everyone would celebrate. Sam Fulwood III / Thinkprogress
