National News
Hurricane Harvey hit low-income communities hardest – Jeremy Deaton / Thinkprogress
Travelin’ while black – Denise Oliver Velez / Daily Kos
White Elephant : Trump has never been less popular—and never more clearly the head of a party of racial resentment – Jamelle Bouie / Slate
Poll: Americans are twice as likely to say racism is a “big problem” compared to 6 years ago – German Lopez / Vox
Witnessing a Rally for a Brand-New Confederate Monument – Alexis Okeowo / The New Yorker
White ‘Power’ and the Fear of Replacement – Abigail Levin and Lisa Guenther / NYT
She Wants to Replace Confederate Statues With Statues of Black Heroes – Michael Daly / Daily Beast
Meet the New Klan, Same as the Old Klan (Almost) – Linda Gordon / Daily Beast
A Catastrophe for Houston’s Most Vulnerable People – Tanvi Misra / The Atlantic
Trump’s Pardon of Joe Arpaio ‘Is a Presidential Endorsement of Racism,’ ACLU Says – Sam Stein / The Daily Beast
Seeking justice for the mass hanging of black soldiers after the bloody 1917 Houston riots – DeNeen L. Brown / Wash Post
Even With Affirmative Action, Blacks and Hispanics Are More Underrepresented at Top Colleges Than 35 Years Ago – Jermy Ashkenas et al / NYT
Warning signs of mass violence – in the US? Max Pensky and Nadia Rubaii / The Conversation
How the Republican party quietly does the bidding of white supremacists – Russ Feingold / The Guardian
The US government destroyed the Ku Klux Klan once. It could do so again – Allyson Hobbs / The Guardian
FDR’s Message to Charlottesville—and to Donald Trump – Michael Fullilove / The Atlantic
Black conservatives who backed Trump are suddenly offended — but they sold their souls long ago – Chauncey Devega / Salon
White supremacists are openly using Nazi symbols. That’s a warning to all of us – Sara J Bloomfield / Wash Post
When the Harlem Renaissance Went to Communist – Jennifer Wilson / NYT
The History of White Supremacy in America – Carl Skutsch / Rolling Stone
It’s Not Just Trump, Federal Law Enforcement Is Not Very Focused On Far-Right Extremism – Paul Blumenthal / HuffPost
The Kennedy Center Honors: Apolitical no more – Peter Marks / Wash Post
‘The civil war lies on us like a sleeping dragon’: America’s deadly divide – and why it has returned – David Blight / The Guardian
‘A Treacherous President Stood in the Way’ – Frederick Douglass / The Atlantic 1866
I’m a black Southerner. I had to go abroad to see a statue celebrating black liberation – Samuel Sinyangwe / Vox
Symbols of the Confederacy still dot the South – Jeremu C.F. Lin and Lily Mihalik / Politico
