National News
Good news: Fewer and fewer young people are getting incarcerated – Keith Humphreys / Wash Post
Hanged, Burned, Shot, Drowned, Beaten – Kriston Capps / The Atlantic
Air Force General Addresses Racial Slurs on Campus: ‘You Should Be Outraged’ – Jonah Engel Bromwich / NYT
The Museum Grappling With the Future of Black America – Adrienne Green / The Atlantic
CNN poll: Americans split on anthem protests – Jennifer Agiesta / CNN
Ta-Nehisi Coates and the Making of a Public Intellectual – Concepcion De Leon / NYT
The NFL, Charlottesville, and Trump’s pattern of racial division – Ronald Brownstein / CNN
Hugh Hefner’s real progressive legacy isn’t sexual, it’s racial – Rachel Leah / Salon
When White Supremacists Ruled Washington – Brent Staples / NYT
Calling Out the Kobach Commission for What It Is – Emma Olson Sharkey / Bill Moyers
How Puerto Rico Is Becoming Trump’s Katrina – Tom Dickinson / Rolling Stone
This Student Band That Kneeled to Play the Anthem Understands Racial Injustice Better Than Trump – Jackie Mogensen / Mother Jones
The Mounting Attack on Organized Labor and What it Means for African-Americans – D. Amari Jackson / Atl Black Star
After White Supremacists Marched Through Campus, UVA Grapples With Change – Andy Campbell et al / Cavalier Daly
When Black Children Are Targeted for Punishment – Derrick Darby and John L. Rury / NYT
Trump’s Attack On Black Athletes May Bring a League to Its Feet – Robert Silverman / The Daily Beast
The Caribbean, the U.S., and how their past and present are intertwined – Denise Oliver Velez / Daily Kos
America Has Never Truly Atoned For Slavery. John Conyers Has Pressed the Issue for Nearly 30 Years – Brandon Ellington Patterson / Mother Jones
Flint Had a Lead Crisis in Its Water. Now It Has a Fertility Crisis – Edwin Rios / Mother Jones
The Myth of Robert E. Lee And The “Good” Slave Owner – Glenn David Brasher / The Daily Beast
The African American Museum a year later: Still the hottest ticket in town – Phillip Kennicott / Wash Post
‘The American War’: Why you need to understand American racism to understand what happened in Vietnam – Alyssa Rosenberg / Wash Post
Stone Mountain: The ugly past and fraught future of the biggest Confederate monument – Steve Hendrix / Wash Post
The Racial Demagoguery of Trump’s Assaults on Colin Kaepernick and Steph Curry – David Remnick / The New Yorker
He allegedly murdered 2 black men. Police found an Adolf Hitler speech in his home – German Lopez / Vox
White people are really confident that things are getting better for black people – Tracy Jan / Wash Post
