National News
Birmingham Civil Rights Institute Reaffirms Award for Angela Davis. By Democracy Now
The US is still not ready to look at the ugly racism against Native Americans. By Julian Brave NoiseCat / The Guardian
Two Years In, The Republican Party Faces An Uncertain Future In Trump’s Image. By S.V. Date / HuffPost
Trump is undoing the diversity of the federal bench. By Derrick Johnson / Wash Post
Kamala Harris to run for president in 2020. By Maeve Reston / CNN
These Atlanta neighbors no longer wanted to live on Confederate Avenue. Here’s what they did about it. By Dakin Andone / CNN
Tim Scott’s influence grows in a less diverse Republican Party. By Leigh Ann Caldwell / NBC News
How the Poor People’s Campaign Is Building a ‘New Electorate.’ By Greg Kaufmann / The Nation
A Reminder That Two Southern States Still Celebrate Robert E. Lee’s Birthday on MLK Day. By Molly Olmstead / Slate
Steve King rallies with support from the far-right. By Luke Barnes / ThinkProgress
Abrams and Gillum are likely 2020 kingmakers. By Marc Caputo and Daniel Strauss / Politico
To Get To College, It Helps Black Students To Have A Black Teacher Early On. By Mayowa Aina / NPR
Florida Pardons the Groveland Four, 70 Years After Jim Crow-Era Rape Case. By Jacey Fortin / NYT
Two Native women in Congress isn’t enough to end the systemic violence Native girls face. By Michelle Chen / NBC News
Why a Revoked Civil Rights Award for Angela Davis Is Causing an Uproar in Alabama. By Molly Olmstead / Slate
‘I Love My Skin!’ Why Black Parents Are Turning to Afrocentric Schools. By Eliza Shapiro / NYT
“Get Out”: Black Families Harassed in Their Own Homes. By Rahima Nasa and Rachel Glickhouse / ProPublica
Women of Color Service Workers Take Their Cause to the Ballot Box, and Win. By Simon Davis-Cohen / The Progressive
White right? How demographics is changing US politics. By Monica Duffy Toft / The Conversation
Trump wants to dismantle decades of discrimination protections. By Zack Ford / Thinkprogress
With Major Elections Bill, House Dems Get Ball Rolling On Fixing Voting Rights Act. By Tierney Sneed / Talkingpointsmemo
A Database Showed Far-Right Terror on the Rise. Then Trump Defunded It. By Emily Atkin / The New Republic
Trump’s Shutdown Will Hit Black Americans The Hardest. By Angela Simms and Shamus Khan / HuffPost
In Texas, 17 new judges bring ‘Black Girl Magic’ to courthouses. By Deanna Paul / Wash Post
As Demographics Shift, Kids’ Books Stay Stubbornly White. By Elizabeth Blair / NPR
Texas Will Finally Teach That Slavery Was Main Cause of the Civil War. By Jason Daley / Smithsonian Magazine
