National News
A Judge Is About To Rule Whether Banning Mexican-American Studies Is Constitutional – Roque Planas / HuffPost
Does the nation still need affirmative action? Editorial Board / Wash Post
Color of Climate: Is Climate Change Gentrifying Miami’s Black Neighborhoods – Jessica Moulite / The Root
The Myth of Reverse Racism – Vann R. Newkirk / The Atlantic
White supremacy week at the White House: Even by Trump standards, the racism was dialed to 11 – Amanda Marcotte / Salon
Asian-Americans Have A Lot To Lose If GOP Legal Immigration Bill Is Passed: Experts – Kimberly Yam
The Thorny Relationship Between Asians and Affirmative Action – Alia Wong / The Atlantic
NAACP issues its first statewide travel advisory, for Missouri – Nancy Coleman / CNN
Department of Justification : Stephen Bannon and Jeff Sessions have a vision to remake American justice – Emily Bazelon / NYT
In Minneapolis, response to police shooting of white woman by Somali officer has been different – Janell Ross / Wash Post
We don’t need a TV show about the Confederacy winning. In many ways, it did – Bree Newsome / Wash Post
James Baldwin: How to Cool It : Read the landmark 1968 Q&A on race in America -Esquire Editors / Esquire
Conference Teaches K-12 Educators to Combat ‘Whiteness’ in schools – Nathan Rubbelke / The College Fix
Newark’s Long Hot Summer (The circumstances that drove the city’s 1967 uprising still haunt America to this day – Noah Remnick / The Atlantic
Historically black beach enclaves are fighting to save their history and identity – Troy McMullen / Wash Post
NAACP sticks by its call for charter school moratorium, says they are ‘not a substitute’ for traditional public schools – Valerie Strauss / Wash Post
100 Years Ago African-Americans Marched Down Fifth Avenue to Declare that Black Lives Matter – Chad Williams / Bill Moyers
People Suffer at Work When They Can’t Discuss the Racial Bias They Face Outside of It – Sylvia Ann Hewlett et al / Harvard Business Review
A Behind-the-Scenes Look at How MLK Turned JFK Into a Civil Rights Champion – Nathalie Baptiste / Mother Jones
Black gun owners ask: Does the Second Amendment apply to us? – Patrik Jonsson / Christian Science Monitor
Venus Williams, a Car Accident, and the Outrageous Police Response – Dave Zirin / The Nation
Black Homeowners Struggle as Housing Market Recovers / Associated Press
Beyond ‘nerds’ and ‘ninjas,’ slow progress for Asian actors in Hollywood -Lisa Respers France / CNN
What We Know — And Don’t Know — About Hate Crimes in America – Rachel Glickhouse / ProPublica
‘The ghetto is the gallery’: black power and the artists who captured the soul of the struggle – Steven W. Thrasher / The Guardian
Study: cities rely more on fines for revenue if they have more black residents – German Lopez / Vox
