National News
Watch: The Memphis Sanitation Strike Ends – Kirsten West Savali, and Emily Yelllin / The Root
Stacey Abrams, the Candidate for Georgia Governor Who Could Make History – Charles Bethea / The New Yorker
Why a Statue of the ‘Father of Gynecology’ Had to Come Down – Adam Serwer / The Atlantic
Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah, freelance reporter, wins the Pulitizer for portrait of Dylann Roof / NYT
Ms. Ghansah’s portrait of Dylann Roof was cited for its “unique and powerful mix of reportage, first-person reflection and analysis of the historical and cultural…
‘Dear White People’ Season 2 Targets Alt-Right Trolls – Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast
The Fight for $15 takes on the ‘Jim Crow economy’ – John Blake / CNN
Why America’s Black Mothers and Babies Are in a Life-or-Death Crisis – Linda Villarosa / NYT
HUD Long Neglected These Residents. Now As They Move Out, Some Feel HUD Let Them Down Again – Molly Parker / ProPublica
Kept Out : For people of color, banks are shutting the door to homeownership – Aaron Glantz and Emmanuel Martinez / RevealNews
California’s Higher Ed Diversity Problem – Claudio Sanchez / NPR
The preacher who used Christianity to revive the Ku Klux Klan – DeNeen L. Brown / Wash Post
After MLK’s Death, Coretta Scott King Went To Memphis To Finish His Work – Debbie Elliott / NPR
Black And Latino Children Are Often Overlooked When It Comes To Autism – Casey Rentz / NPR
America’s Federally Financed Ghettos – The Editorial Board / NYT
‘Martin Luther King Jr.’s Unfinished Work on Earth Must Truly Be Our Own’ – Benjamin E. Mays / The Atlantic
Secret use of census info helped send Japanese Americans to internment camps in WWII – Lori Aratani / Wash Post
Chicago sees drop in killings and shootings for 13 consecutive months – Brad Parks and Darran Simon / CNN
Searching For A Motherland As A Black Latina – Maria V. Luna / HuffPost
‘The Blood of Lynching Victims Is in This Soil.’- Katie Couric / Natl Geographic
This is what one tragedy-filled month says about race and justice in America – Ray Sanchez / CNN
The FBI is using its ‘Black Identity Extremist’ report to crack down on activists – Kay Wicker / ThinkProgress
A Snapshot Of How Asian-Americans Are Changing The South – Angela Chen / HuffPost
Race still trumps class for black Americans – Derick Hamilton and Jennifer Cohen / The Guardian
Asians are being used to make the case against affirmative action. Again – Alvin Chang / Vox
White Supremacist Men See White Manhood Under Siege – Randy Blazak / HuffPost
Racial segregation doesn’t just belong to the South. It belongs to all of us – David Von Drehle / Wash Post
