National News
As Poor White People Seek To Justify Their Anger, the Demonization of Poor Black People Has Backfired – David Love / Atl Black Star
Before civil rights activist Medgar Evers was killed for his work there was Elbert Williams. His case is being reopened – Emanuella Grinberg / CNN
How 911 calls on blacks are a new twist on something old: white flight – John Blake / CNN
Chicago’s deadly summer: guns, gangs and the legacy of racial inequality – David Taylor / The Guardian
Ben Carson Declared Mission Accomplished in East St. Louis — Where Public Housing Is Still a Disaster – Molly Parker / ProPublica
Researchers are finding Confederate memorials faster than they’re being taken down – P.R. Lockhart / Vox
Think Confederate monuments are racist? Consider pioneer monuments – Cynthia Prescott / The Conversation
On a Civil Rights Trail, Essential Sites and Indelible Detours – Ron Stodghill / NYT
Forget the ‘glass ceiling.’ Women of color face a ‘concrete ceiling’ – Julia Carpenter / CNN
It Took Until Today for a Black Woman to Make, on Average, What a White Man Made in 2017 – Seals Allers / Slate
The Bamboo Glass Ceiling – Tiffany Diane Tso / Slate
Judge rules that Judaism is not a race but Jewish people can be targeted for racism. Here’s why that matters – Noah Berlatsky / NBC News
The National Council of Negro Women and the Black Freedom Struggle – Dan Berger / Black Perspectives
How Richmond is addressing the debate over Confederate monuments 1 year after Charlottesville – Meghan Keneally / ABC News
Remembering Ron Dellums: The Radical Congressmember Who Fought Against War, Apartheid & Poverty – Democracy Now
White, and in the minority – Terrence McCoy / NYT
White America is quietly self-segregating – Alvin Chang / Vox
A demographer explains why a changing U.S. electorate will sweep away Trumpism – Sam Fulwood III / ThinkProgress
In the past decade, nearly 26,000 murders have gone without an arrest in major American cities – Wesley Lowery, Kimbriell Kelly and Steven Rich / Wash Post
Honors, at Last, for Ida B. Wells, ‘a Sword Among Lions’ – The Editorial Board / NYT
LeBron James: Trump Uses Sports To Exploit America’s Racial Divisions – Tom Sykes / The Daily Beast
Israel Picks Identity Over Democracy. More Nations May Follow – Max Fisher / NYT
What happened the last time a President chose America’s enemies over its friends
American Racists Look for Allies in Russia – Kelly Weill / The Daily Beast
How the Suffrage Movement Betrayed Black Women – Brent Staples / NYT
In Georgia Governor’s Race, a Defining Moment for a Southern State – Kevin Sack and Alan Blinder / NYT
