National News
The Bomber Is Dead, but Fear of Racist Attacks Lives On – Eric Tang / NYT
As America Changes, Some Anxious Whites Feel Left Behind – Michele Norris / Natl Geo
Democratic, Republican voter bases are more different than ever – David Lauter / LA Times
Asians could opt out of naming a country of origin on the 2020 census, a policymaker’s nightmare – Jennifer Lee / The Conversation
20,000 Republicans just voted for an actual Nazi – Josh Israel / ThinkProgress
Martin Luther King Jr. Was Bailed Out by a Millionaire – Incarcerated people today aren’t so lucky – Clint Smith / The Atlantic
A Profile of America’s Gun Owners Is Everything We’d Expect It To Be – David Love / Atl Black Star
Still a Long Time Coming : Selma and the unfulfilled promise of civil rights – Elias Rodriques / The Nation
The Racist Origin of the Second Amendment and the Rise of Black Gun Ownership – Zenobia Jeffries / YES! Magazine
The FBI Is Too White—And It Considers That a “Huge Operational Risk” – Topher Sanders / Mother Jones
Economic Anxiety Didn’t Make People Vote Trump, Racism Did – Sean McElwee and Jason McDaniel / The Nation
Detroit’s black middle class emerged from 1968’s upheaval – John Gallagher / USA Today
How social media spread a historical lie – Jennifer Mendelsohn and Peter A. Shulman / Wash Post
A New Report Has Some Grim News About American Newborns – Kiera Butler / Mother Jones
Millions of Students Are Quietly Being Taught the Koch Brothers’ Whitewashed Version of Black History – Michael Harriot / The Root
National Geographic admits to its racist past – Rachel Leah / Salon
Police are still killing black people. Why isn’t it news anymore? Wesley Lowery / Wash Post
Trump Finds Unlikely Culprit in School Shootings: Obama Discipline Policies – Erica L. Green / NYT
Racial Justice Drives Fight for, and Against, Legal Pot in New Jersey – Karen Rouse / NYT
Suit accusing Harvard of capping Asian-American admissions could be tried this summer – Joan Biskupic / CNN
African American museum in SC will stand where 100,000 slaves took first steps on American soil – Manie Robinson / Greenville News
A Quiet Exodus: Why Black Worshipers Are Leaving White Evangelical Churches – Campbell Robertson / NYT
The Race-Based Mortgage Penalty – The Editorial Board / NYT
New report looks at women of color in journalism and the lack of diversity in U.S. newsrooms – Kelly Macias / Daily Kos
San Francisco To Remove 19th Century Statue Critics Say Degrades Native Americans – Richard Gonzales / NPR
Some of those hit hardest by the opioid epidemic are not rural, white Americans – Eugene Scott / Wash Post
