National News
Ben Jealous Is Ready to Make Maryland America’s Laboratory of Democracy – John Nichols / The Nation
To Protect and Serve: How one American city chose to tackle crime, combat racism, and reckon with the legacy of police brutality – Ben Austen / The New Republic
White Supremacists’ Use of Campus Propaganda Is Soaring, Report Finds – Julia Jacobs / NYT
New data shows US hate crimes continued to rise in 2017 – Brian Levin, James J. Nolan and John David Reitzel / The Conversation
Slaves knew ‘the fearful anguish of broken hearts’. In Trump’s America, migrants do too – Daina Ramey Berry / The Guardian
How Latinos Are Shaping America’s Future – Hector Tobar / National Geographic
DeVos Has Scuttled More Than 1,200 Civil Rights Probes Inherited From Obama – Annie Waldman / ProPublica
Declaration of War: The violent rise of white supremacy after Vietnam – Patrick Blanchfield / The Nation
Charleston Apologizes for City’s Role in Slave Trade – Mellissa Gomez / NYT
Fewer Births Than Deaths Among Whites in Majority of U.S. States – Sabrina Tavernize / NYT
Three Years After Dylann Roof, Neo-Confederates Are Back – Mark Potok / The Daily Beast
The United States’ Long History Of Separating Families Of Color – Sara Boboltz / HuffPost
It Shouldn’t Have Taken a Lawsuit to Find Out Harvard Was Biased Against Asian Americans – Aaron Mak / Slate
Sally Hemings Takes Center Stage – Annette Gordin-Reed / NYT
The Supreme Court just cleared the way for the mass disenfranchisement of voters – Kira Lerner / ThinkProgress
Being Black in America Can Be Hazardous to Your Health – Olga Khazan / The Atlantic
Ira Berlin, 1941–2018 – Remembering a man who transformed scholarship on slavery and African-American culture – Eric Foner / The Nation
Georgia church expelled from Southern Baptist Convention over racial discrimination charges – Holly Meyer / USA Today
How Northern Newspapers Covered Lynchings – Charles Seguin / NYT
Anthony Bourdain’s Meal With Obama Was a Proud American Moment – John Hendrickson / Rolling Stone
What a 1963 RFK-James Baldwin meeting teaches us about race in Trump’s America – Sean Illing / Vox
North Carolina tries to revive its discriminatory voter ID law as constitutional amendment – Kira Lerner / ThinkProgress
Will the State Takeover of Jackson Schools be ‘Better Together’ or the Same Old Education Politics? Jeff Bryant / The Progressive
Driving While Black Has Gotten Even Worse – Tim Murphy / Mother Jones
Banking Black – Kia Gregory / The New Republic
Trump’s Judge Picks Could Boost Racial Bias in the Justice System For Generations – Cecilia Smith / Atl Black Star
