National News
Black, Female and Running for Governor: Can She Win in the South? Jonathan Martin and Richard Fausset / NYT
At a Killer’s Sentencing, Native Americans Talk of Both Healing and Enduring Suspicions – Rahima Nasa / Propublica
Black and Latinx people face the greatest barriers to re-entry after prison; women fare worst – Rebecca Pilar Buckwalter Poza / Daily Kos
“It’s Time for Moral Confrontation”: New Poor People’s Campaign Stages Nationwide Civil Disobedience – Amy Goodman / Democracy Now
Trump’s brutal policies target the most vulnerable Americans – Katrina Vanden Heuvel / Wash Post
Ben Carson vs. the Fair Housing Act – The Editorial Board / NYT
Changing the Stories of Police Shooting with the Justice Teams Network – Sarah Jaffe / The Progressive
Unseen photographs of civil rights conflict in Birmingham, Alabama, 1963 – Greg Whitmore / The Guardian
Starbucks, Yale, and the Abuse of 911 Against Black Americans – Matt Ford / The New Republic
Russian Trolls Were Obsessed With Black Lives Matter – April Glaser / Slate
There’s No Good Excuse For The Racist Impact Of Michigan’s Medicaid Proposal – Arthur Delaney / HuffPost
How a Wave of Honest History Museums Is Changing Black Tourism – Ashton Lattimore / Slate
Young people of color most affected by police killings: study – Nicole Karlis / Salon
Mississippi Delta Chinese-Americans Challenge Idea Of Monolithic Asian America – Kimberly Yam and Christy Havranek / HuffPost
She Hails From Tribal Chiefs. Now She’s Ready To Be Idaho’s Governor – Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost
Fighting Street Gun Violence as if It Were a Contagion – Tina Rosenberg / NYT
William Barber Takes on Poverty and Race in the Age of Trump – Jelani Cobb / The New Yorker
The Historian Behind Slavery Apologists Like Kanye West – Brian Roberts and Ethan J. Kytle / NYT
Prisoners Reclaim Their Heritage Through Asian-American Studies Program – Kimberly Yam / HuffPost
Ranks of Notorious Hate Group Include Active-Duty Military – A.C. Thompson and Ali Winston / ProPublica
The racial redlining in Michigan’s Medicaid work requirements – Amanda Michelle Gomez / ThinkProgress
Parents Do What the Mayor Hasn’t — Integrate Schools – Mara Gay / NYT
As Israel turns 70, many young American Jews turn away – Dov Waxman / The Conversation
America is more diverse than ever – but still segregated – Aaron Williams and Armand Emamdjomeh / Wash Post
When Southern Newspapers Justified Lynching – Brent Staples / NYT
A Witness to the Desegregation—and Resegregation—of America’s Schools – Kristina Rizga / The Atlantic
