National News
American Dignity on the Fourth of July – David Remnick / The New Yorker
GOP Health Care Plan Crushes Working-Class Blacks and Whites, but Not the Middle-Class Whites Who Elected Trump – Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet
James Baldwin FBI Files: How the Author’s Fearlessness Led to a Decade Long Witch-hunt – Todd Burroughs / Atl Black Star
African Americans Have Lost Untold Acres of Land Over the Last Century – Leah Douglas / The Nation
Black Girls Are Viewed As Less Innocent Than White Girls Starting At Age 5: Study – Taryn Finley / Huff Post
Philando Castile’s Family Reaches $3 Million Settlement – Eric Miller / Reuters via The Daily Beast
School Districts Fight Segregation on Their Own – The Editorial Board / NYT
The Fight for Health Care Has Always Been About Civil Rights – Vann R. Newkirk / The Atlantic
Jeff Sessions’ Ideas About Crime Are Totally Wrong—and the Consequences Can Be Tragic – Sophia Tesfaye / Salon via Alternet
Supreme Court Case Could Have Huge Impact on Who Wins Future Elections – David S. Cohen / Rolling Stone
Study: when it comes to detecting racial inequality, white Christians have a blind spot – Tara Isabella Burton / Vox
Past Voices – The Making of an Antislavery President – Eric Herschthal / New Republic
How Charlottesville, Virginia’s Confederate statues helped decimate the city’s historically successful black communities – Sophie Abromowitz et al / Slate
The Senate GOP Isn’t Fixing Health Care. It’s Waging Class War – Zoe Carpenter / The Nation
The Philando Castile jury was stacked with pro-gun, pro-cop, middle-aged white people – Kali Holloway / AlterNet via Salon
A Noose at the Smithsonian Brings History Back to Life – Lonnie G. Bunch III / NYT
Black and Latino drivers are searched based on less evidence and are more likely to be arrested, Stanford researchers find – Richard Winton / LA Times
New CAA study says diverse casting increases box office potential across all budgets – Tre’vell Anderson / LA Times
As Feds Back Away From Police Oversight, Black Lives Matter Sues Chicago – Brandon Ellington Patterson / Mother Jones
Searching for Justice for Samuel DuBose – Brandon Harris / New Republic
Understanding Contemporary White Supremacy – Anis Shivani / Salon via Alternet
Trump Administration Quietly Rolls Back Civil Rights Efforts Across Federal Government – Jessica Huseman and Arnie Waldman / ProPublica
There’s still no good reason to believe black-white IQ differences are due to genes – Eric Turkheimer, Kathryn Harden and Richard Nisbett / Vox
America Spent Centuries Mistreating Native American Children. Trump Is Making It Worse – Rebecca Klein / Huff Post
Persuasive proof that America is full of racist and selfish people – Sean Illing / Vox
Confederate nostalgia nearly wins in Virginia’s GOP gubernatorial primary – E.A. Crunden / ThinkProgress
