National News
How the Right-Wing Koch and DeVos Families Are Funding Hate Speech on College Campuses Across the U.S – Alex Kotch / Alternet
Fake Working Class : The muted response to the retail apocalypse shows which workers count in Trump’s America – Jamelle Bouie / Slate
‘We’re truly sorry’: Fla. apologizes for racial injustice of 1949 ‘Groveland Four’ rape case – Katie Mettler / Wash Post
Did racism or a longing for authoritarian leadership elect Donald Trump? The right answer is both – Heather Digby Parton / Salon
David Grann’s New Book Explores a Time When Killing Native Americans Wasn’t Murder – Lewis Beale / The Daily Beast
This Horrific Georgia Brutality Footage Shows How Bad Cops Cover for Each Other – Jeremy Stahl / Slate
DeVos’ Pick to Head Civil Rights Office Once Said She Faced Discrimination for Being White – Vivian Lam / Huff Post
Enslaved man who helped build U-Va. has a building named for him – Linda Wheeler / Wash Post
Here’s How Jeff Sessions Is Preparing To Pack U.S. Prisons With Bodies – Christopher Brauchli / Huff Post
Minority Neighborhoods Pay Higher Car Insurance Premiums Than White Areas With the Same Risk – Julia Angwin et al / Propublica
Why Spicer Didn’t Count the Jewish Gas Victims – Michael Daly / The Daily Beast
Death row lawyer Bryan Stevenson plans a lynching memorial in Alabama – Curtis Bunn / The Undefeated
For White America, It’s ‘Happy Days’ Again – Matt Taibbi / Rolling Stone
What Mississippi Taught Bobby Kennedy About Poverty – Ellen B. Meacham / NYT
Texas voter ID law was designed to discriminate against minorities, judge rules – Paul J. Weber / Wash Post
Sonia Sotomayor: Not Everyone Can Just Pull Themselves ‘Up By The Bootstraps’ – Carolina Moreno / Huff Post
‘It Did Not Stick’: The First Federal Effort to Curb Police Abuse – Sheryl Gay Stolberg / NYT
America’s forgotten crisis: over 50% of one Native American tribe are homeless – Julian Brave NoiseCat / The Guardian
Why black lives still matter – Peniel E. Joseph / New Republic
An elite police squad was supposed to clean up the streets of 1970s Detroit. Instead, it terrorized African Americans – Mark Binelli / New Republic
The New Champions of School Integration – Richard Kahlenberg / The Atlantic
Donald Trump, Jews and the myth of race: How Jews gradually became “white,” and how that changed America – Jonathan Zimmerman / Salon
How Jeff Sessions wants to bring back the war on drugs – Sari Horwitz / Wash Post
Federal judge approves Baltimore police consent decree – Peter Hermann and Sari Horwitz / Wash Post
James Cone and Taylor Branch on MLK’s Fight for Economic Equality – Bill Moyers
On the 49th Anniversary of MLK’s Assassination, Activists Are Marching for the Causes He Championed – P.R. Lockhart / Mother Jones
