National News
The census is a threat to communities of color – Bradford M. Berrry / Wash Post
Is Stacey Abrams Assembling a New Democratic Majority? Aimee Allison / NYT
“Talking About History Is Way We Liberate America”: New Memorial Honors Victims of White Supremacy – Bryan Stevenson / Democracy Now
The US government should cede territory back to Native Americans – Timothy Snyder / The Guardian
James H. Cone, Founder Of Black Liberation Theology, Dies At 79 – Rebecca Feldhaus Adams / NPR
They thought Georgetown University’s missing slaves were ‘lost.’ The truth was closer to home than anyone knew – Terrence McCoy / Wash Post
Ida B. Wells and the Lynching of Black Women – Crystal N. Feimster / NYT
Lynching memorial leaves some quietly seething: ‘Let sleeping dogs lie’ – Sam Levin / The Guardian
The poor don’t have a prayer in today’s Washington – Dana Milbank / Wash Post
HUD Secretary Ben Carson to propose raising rent for low-income Americans receiving federal housing subsidies – Tracy Jan, Caitlin Dewey and Jeff Stein / Wash Post
Watching Cosby Fall (Victim or Victimizer) – Jasmine Sanders / NYT
Confederate Memorial Day: when multiple states celebrate treason in defense of slavery – Jane Coaston / Vox
The Selfless Servant Leadership of the African-American Women of the Civil-Rights Movement – Janet Dewart Bell / The Nation
The disparities in how black and white men die in gun violence, state by state – Jacqueline Howard / CNN
New Federal Data Shows How Black Students Are Getting Pushed Out Of School – Rebecca Klein / HuffPost
A Lynching Memorial. The Country Has Never Seen Anything Like It – Campbell Robertson / NYT
Trump challenges Native Americans’ historical standing – Dan Diamond / Politico
Boehner Benefits From Weed. Blacks Are in Prison for Using It – Vincent M. Southerland and Johanna B. Steinberg / NYT
How Alabama could become ‘Ground Zero’ in renewed battle over Confederate symbols – John Sharp / AL.com
Watch: The Memphis Sanitation Strike Ends – Kirsten West Savali, and Emily Yelllin / The Root
Stacey Abrams, the Candidate for Georgia Governor Who Could Make History – Charles Bethea / The New Yorker
Why a Statue of the ‘Father of Gynecology’ Had to Come Down – Adam Serwer / The Atlantic
Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah, freelance reporter, wins the Pulitizer for portrait of Dylann Roof / NYT
Ms. Ghansah’s portrait of Dylann Roof was cited for its “unique and powerful mix of reportage, first-person reflection and analysis of the historical and cultural…
‘Dear White People’ Season 2 Targets Alt-Right Trolls – Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast
The Fight for $15 takes on the ‘Jim Crow economy’ – John Blake / CNN
Why America’s Black Mothers and Babies Are in a Life-or-Death Crisis – Linda Villarosa / NYT
