National News
The past year of research has made it very clear: Trump won because of racial resentment – German Lopez / Vox
It’s still too easy to push blacks, minorities off of juries – Jeffrey Bellin / USA Today
GOP Tax Bill Could Turn America Into World’s Most Unequal Society, UN Expert Warns – Sarah Ruiz-Grossman / HuffPost
This video of jubilant students at a small-town Louisiana school inspired millions. Here’s why. Samantha Schmidt / Wash Post
Reports of Voter Suppression Tactics Pour In From Alabama Election – Pema Levy / Mother Jones
Federal report finds regression for black managers in financial services industry – Joe Davidson / Wash Post
Native Americans Feel Invisible In U.S. Health Care System – Eric Whitney / NPR
A reporter who stood up to far worse than journalists get from Trump – Eugene Robinson / Wash Post
Science has revealed how arbitrary racial categories are. Perhaps medicine will abandon them, too – Moises Velasquez-Manoff / NYT
A Century Later, a Little-Known Mass Hanging of Black Soldiers Still Haunts Us – James Jeffrey / The Progressive
The Republican Tax Bill Is a Poison Pill That Kills the New Deal – Heather Cox Richardson / Bill Moyers
Roland Martin’s popular news show has been cancelled – Sam Fulwood III / ThinkProgress
Justice Gorsuch’s radical First Amendment theory could sabotage civil rights law – Mark Joseph Stern / Slate
Black Mothers Keep Dying After Giving Birth. Shalon Irving’s Story Explains Why – Nina Martin and Renee Montagne / NPR
For black women, #MeToo came centuries too late – Colbert I. King / Wash Post
Trump’s new team of judges will radically change American society – Shira A. Scheindlin / The Guardian
Environmental injustice is rising in the US. Minorities and the poor pay the price – Mustafa Santiago Ali / The Guardian
She Went Undercover to Expose Sexual Harassment in the Food Industry. It Was Way Worse Than She Imagined – Tom Philpott / Mother Jones
Black lawmakers resentful after Conyers resignation – John Breshnan / Politico
How Gerrymandering Has Made the Black Vote a Form of Token Representation – Frederick Reese / NPR
Poll: Asian-Americans See Individuals’ Prejudice As Big Discrimination Problem – Joe Neel / NPR
A new Poor People’s Campaign wants to change how society defines morality – Katrina vanden Heuvel / Wash Post
Facebook to Temporarily Block Advertisers From Excluding Audiences by Race -Julia Angwin / ProPublica
The Breakthrough: A Reporter Goes to Ground Zero for Today’s American HIV Epidemic – Joaquin Sapien / ProPublica
‘Unflinching’: The day John Brown was hanged for his raid on Harpers Ferry – DeNeen L. Brown / Wash Post
Why the black press is more relevant than ever – David Love / CNN
