National News
Frederick Douglass needed to see Lincoln. Would the president meet with a former slave? DeNeen L. Brown / Wash Post
Court Rules Alabama Town’s School Segregation Too Racist … Even for Alabama – Michael Harriot / The Root
‘Black Women Are Realizing the Power of Their Vote’ – Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico
A New Home for Angela Davis’s Papers (and Her ‘Wanted’ Poster) – Jennifer Schuessler / NYT
Terror victims Donald Trump won’t talk about: Americans killed by the “alt-right” – Chauncey Devega / Salon
Trump’s budget hits poor Americans the hardest – Tracy Jan, Caitlin Dewey and Jeff Stein / Wash Post
When the next generation looks racially different from the last, political tensions rise – Manuel Pastor / The Conversation
Desegregating blood: A civil rights struggle to remember – Thomas A. Guglielmo / The Conversation
Remember the Orangeburg Massacre – Robert Greene / Dissent
The Arming and Disarming of Black America – Nicholas Johnson / Slate
How Joy Reid of MSNBC Became a Heroine of the Resistance – Laura M. Holson / NYT
Black history is U.S. history — but some of my students don’t want to hear it – Donald Earl Collins / Wash Post
Eric Holder’s Group Targets All-G.O.P. States to Attack Gerrymandering – Alexander Burns / NYT
The Latino Flight to Whiteness – William Darity Jr. / The American Prospect
The corrupt, racist proposal from the State of the Union address that everyone missed – Eric S. Yellin / Wash Post
They considered themselves white, but DNA tests told a more complex story – Tara Bahrampour / Wash Post
#BlackLivesMatterAtSchool is a National Uprising for Racial Justice – Jesse Hagopian / The Progressive
America’s Last Slave Ship, and Slavery’s Stain – Brent Staples / NYT
10 quotes from 1968 Kerner Commission report on race that resonate today / CNN
The Women Behind White Power – Elizabeth Gillespie McRae / NYT
Justice Dept. Office to Make Legal Aid More Accessible Is Quietly Closed – Katie Benner / NYT
Trump’s Mainstreaming of ‘Chain Migration’: A White Supremacist’s Dream – Dean Obeidallah / The Daily Beast
White Supremacists Are Targeting College Students ‘Like Never Before’ – Christopher Mathias / HuffPost
American Students Aren’t Learning The Full Truth About Slavery – Rebecca Klein / HuffPost
White Americans, welcome to the club of being asked, ‘Where are you really from?’ Christine Emba / Wash Post
The hidden history of black nationalist women’s political activism – Keisha N. Blain / The Conversation
