National News
NAACP Sues Trump Administration Over Ending Protected Status For Haitians – James Doubek / NPR
Concerning Monuments – The Shaw Memorial : A Salute to the Soldiers of the Massachusetts 54th Regiment
Florida Will Vote on Restoring Voting Rights to 1.5 Million Ex-Felons – Ari Berman / Mother Jones
Black unemployment is at a record low. But there’s a lot more to the story – Lydia DePillis
Medicaid is an effective, efficient program, highly valued by its beneficiaries. And yet, Republicans are relentlessly trying to cut it – Jared Bernstein and Hannah Katch / Wash Post
Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Racism Represents an American Tradition – Paul A. Kramer / NYT
The Fight for the Suburbs – Rachel M. Cohen / The Nation
How an Artist Learned About Freedom From ‘The Negro Motorist Green Book’ – Meredith Mendelsohn / NYT
How Puerto Ricans fit into an increasingly anti-immigrant U.S. – Yarimar Bonilla / Wash Post
White supremacists responsible for most extremist killings in 2017, ADL says – Sara Sidner / CNN
‘Make it right’: Descendants of slaves demand restitution from Georgetown – Susan Svriuga / Wash Post
Shutdown: A familiar partisan ritual takes on new meaning in the Trump era – Karen Tumulty and Michael Scherer / Wash Post
Meet the theologian who helped MLK see the value of nonviolence – Paul Harvey / The Conversation
Trump Thinks Only Black People Are on Welfare, but, Really, White Americans Receive Most Benefits – Ryan Sit / Newsweek
Walmart, Black America’s Biggest Boss, Is Also Its Cheap Uncle – Jason Johnson / The Root
Why Trump voters need the immigrants they want to turn away – Ronald Browstein / CNN
Yes, your ancestors probably did come here legally — because ‘illegal’ immigration is less than a century old – Kevin Jennings / LA Times
Thanks to the North Carolina case, partisan gerrymandering’s day of reckoning may soon be upon us – Christopher Beem / The Conversation
Expressing ‘shock, dismay and outrage,’ all 55 African nations demand an apology from Donald Trump – Jen Hayden / Daily Kos
8 Things We Learned From David Letterman’s Interview With Barack Obama – Tessa Stuart / Rolling Stone
Trump reportedly interrupted intel briefing to ask Korean American, “Where are you from?” Zack Beauchamp / Vox
Infamous neo-Nazi website praises Trump’s racist remarks – Luke Barnes / ThinkProgress
Here’s who — and what — America wouldn’t have had without Haitians – David Von Drehle / Wash Post
Under Trump, a Hard Test for Howard University – Jelani Cobb / The New Yorker
Recy Taylor’s Truth – Vann R. Newkirk II / The Atlantic
Monuments to White Supremacy – Brent Staples / NYT
