National News
Frederick Douglass’s Fight Against Scientific Racism – Eric Herschthal / NYT
Lowest Ever Black Jobless Rate Is Still Twice That of Whites – Natalie Kitroeff and Ben Casselman / NYT
Fanning the Flames of America’s Racial Tensions Is As Russian As Vodka and Blini – Theodore R. Johnson / Slate
What’s behind the rise of interracial marriage in the US? – Mona Chalabi / The Guardian
Trump wants to pit black Americans against Latino immigrants. Don’t fall for it – Treva B. Lindsey / Vox
Whitewashing Trump Country – Sarah Jones / New Republic
Black Incarceration Rates Are Dropping While White Rates Rises, But What’s Really Behind This Surprising Trend? David Love / Atl Black Star
Why the Right Wing Is So Interested in Narrowing Down Education into ‘Skills’ – Jennifer Berkshire / AlterNet
What Laura Ingraham’s attack on LeBron James really means – Martenzie Johnson / The Undefeated
How California Is Blocking Native Americans From the Weed Business – Amanda Chicago Lewis / Rolling Stone
“I Want Four Years Where I’m Not Judged by the Color of My Skin” – Brandon E. Patterson / Mother Jones
The Mystery Behind Frederick Douglass’s Birthday – Annika Neklason / The Atlantic
It’s Not Illegal Immigration That Worries Republicans Anymore – Peter Beinart / The Atlantic
Revisiting Jefferson’s history as a slave owner – David K. Ronka / Wash Post
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
