National News
Good news from today’s jobs report: The tight labor market is helping to reduce the racial unemployment gap – Jared Bernstein / Wash Post
Republicans Propose Statue to Black Confederate Soldiers. Yes, Really – Barrett Holmes Pitner / Daily Beast
How Medical Racism Created A Black Anti-Abortion Movement – Alanna Vagianos / HuffPost
For Native Americans, a Historic Moment on the Path to Power at the Ballot Box – Julie Turkewitz / NYT
As U.S. Becomes More Diverse, What Role Will Nonwhites Play In Furthering White Supremacy? David Love / Atl Black Star
Trump’s Pick to Run 2020 Census Has Defended Racial Gerrymandering and Voter Suppression Laws – Ari Berman / Mother Jones
How Ella Mae Wray Seized the Opportunities of 1968 – Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic
Bridging black and white: How St. Louis residents are trying to surmount racial inequities post-Ferguson – Christa Case Bryant / CS Monitor
The Supreme Court’s Quiet Assault on Civil Rights – Lynn Adelman / Dissent
White voters are moving to the South — and making it more Democratic – Denny Hayes / Wash Post
Florida may restore voting rights to 1.7 million ex-felons: So long, Republicans! Amanda Marcotte / Salon
Federal judge green-lights desegregation housing rule after Carson tries to block it – Amanda Michelle Gomez / ThinkProgress
4 Reasons for a surprising change in racial incarceration trendlines – Phillip Smith / Salon via Alternet
The show was supposed to bring black and white students together. It almost tore them apart – Robert Samuels / Wash Post
S. Allen Counter : Harvard neurophysiologist, explorer, ethnographer, social-justice advocate – Michael Paterniti / NYT
How the news media distorts black families – Nicole Rodgers and Rashad Robinson / Wash Post
Arizona Can’t Ban Mexican-American Studies Anymore, Judge Says – Roque Planas / HuffPost
Sessions Says to Courts: Go Ahead, Jail People Because They’re Poor – Chiraag Bains / NYT
Pot Legalization Is Transforming California’s Criminal Justice Landscape. Here’s How – Brandon E. Patterson / Mother Jones
The opioid epidemic has now reached black America – German Lopez / Vox
The Trump-Less Kennedy Center Honors – Sarah Ruhl / NYT
Confederate statues come down in Memphis – Emanuella Grinberg and Nicole Chavez / CNN
Dr. King’s Interconnected World – Drew Dellinger / NYT
Women of color in low-wage jobs are being overlooked in the #MeToo moment – P. R. Lockhart / Vox
How Grassroots Organizers Got Black Voters to the Polls in Alabama – Vann R. Newkirk II / The Atlantic
The New Mississippi Civil Rights Museum Refuses to Sugarcoat History – Holland Cotter / NYT
