National News
The Arming and Disarming of Black America – Nicholas Johnson / Slate
How Joy Reid of MSNBC Became a Heroine of the Resistance – Laura M. Holson / NYT
Black history is U.S. history — but some of my students don’t want to hear it – Donald Earl Collins / Wash Post
Eric Holder’s Group Targets All-G.O.P. States to Attack Gerrymandering – Alexander Burns / NYT
The Latino Flight to Whiteness – William Darity Jr. / The American Prospect
The corrupt, racist proposal from the State of the Union address that everyone missed – Eric S. Yellin / Wash Post
They considered themselves white, but DNA tests told a more complex story – Tara Bahrampour / Wash Post
#BlackLivesMatterAtSchool is a National Uprising for Racial Justice – Jesse Hagopian / The Progressive
America’s Last Slave Ship, and Slavery’s Stain – Brent Staples / NYT
10 quotes from 1968 Kerner Commission report on race that resonate today / CNN
The Women Behind White Power – Elizabeth Gillespie McRae / NYT
Justice Dept. Office to Make Legal Aid More Accessible Is Quietly Closed – Katie Benner / NYT
Trump’s Mainstreaming of ‘Chain Migration’: A White Supremacist’s Dream – Dean Obeidallah / The Daily Beast
White Supremacists Are Targeting College Students ‘Like Never Before’ – Christopher Mathias / HuffPost
American Students Aren’t Learning The Full Truth About Slavery – Rebecca Klein / HuffPost
White Americans, welcome to the club of being asked, ‘Where are you really from?’ Christine Emba / Wash Post
The hidden history of black nationalist women’s political activism – Keisha N. Blain / The Conversation
The Koch Brothers Are Plotting a Right-Wing Takeover of America’s Judicial System – Jacob Sugarman / AlterNet
A Monument the Old South Would Like to Ignore – Magaret Renkl / NYT
Indian Slavery Once Thrived in New Mexico. Latinos Are Finding Family Ties to It – Simon Romero / NYT
Wyatt Tee Walker, Civil Rights Oracle died on Tuesday at 88 – Diane McWhorter / NYT
Trump’s Xenophobic Vision of America Is Inciting Racist Violence – Suman Raghunathan / The Nation
Of Course the Christian Right Supports Trump – Michelle Goldberg / NYT
2020 Census To Keep Racial, Ethnic Categories Used In 2010 – Hansi Lo Wang / NPR
NAACP Sues Trump Administration Over Ending Protected Status For Haitians – James Doubek / NPR
Concerning Monuments – The Shaw Memorial : A Salute to the Soldiers of the Massachusetts 54th Regiment
