National News
What’s Killing America’s Black Infants? Zoe Carpenter / The Nation
Five myths about Frederick Douglass – Henry Louis Gates and John Stauffer / Wash Post
The Big Reason Whites Are Richer Than Blacks in America – Peter Coy / Bloomberg Businessweek
White immigrants weren’t always considered white — and acceptable – Brando Simeo Starkey / The Undefeated
Who, exactly, is white? The answer sounds obvious — we know a white person when we see one, we think. But when Italians poured into…
Yale Will Drop John Calhoun’s Name From Building – Noah Remnick / NYT
Why Tamron Hall Walked Away from Today: ‘She Wasn’t Going to Settle for Sitting on the Sidelines’ – Jamine Rubenstein / MSN
Integration Works. Can It Survive the Trump Era? Thomas B. Edsall / NYT
The 2016 election deepened the chasm between those voters who believe that the government should address the problems of the poor and those who are…
Judge orders NYPD to disclose surveillance records of Black Lives Matters activists – Lauren C. Williams / ThinkProgress
Oklahoma City Exposes the Origins of Today’s White Nationalism – Brandon Harris / New Republic
Read the letter Coretta Scott King wrote opposing Sessions’s 1986 federal nomination – Wesley Lowery / Wash Post
Coretta Scott King, the widow of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., urged Congress in a letter to block the 1986 nomination of Jeff Sessions…
In Search of the Slave Who Defied George Washington – Jennifer Schulessler / NYT
MOUNT VERNON, Va. — The costumed characters at George Washington’s gracious estate here are used to handling all manner of awkward queries, whether about 18th-century…
These Families Wanted ‘Hugs Not Walls’ As They Reunited At The Border – Carolina Moreno / Huff Post
Teaching Southern and Black History Under Trump – Charles Bethea / The New Yorker
Black Women Face Devastating Losses If Obamacare Is Repealed – Julia Craven / Huff Post
Bianca Adams worked part-time jobs as a spa professional, sometimes juggling two or three at a time, for years. But none of them offered her…
Trump’s top adviser believes we’re at the “very beginning stages of a global conflict.” – Tom McCarthy / The Guardian
Trump is setting us free:’ White supremacists celebrate reports that Trump will dial down scrutiny – Laurel Raymond and Alan Pyke / ThinkProgress
Online neo-Nazi and white supremacist forums have been unmistakably jubilant lately, as web chatter moved from celebrating President Donald Trump’s electoral victory to celebrating individual…
Boston Defies Trump on Immigrants the Way the City’s Abolitionists Once Fought Slavers – Kevin M. Levin / The Daily Beast
In a press conference at City Hall last month, surrounded by elected officials and black, Latino, and Asian staff members, Boston’s Mayor Marty Walsh delivered…
Secret Service agrees to pay $24 million in decades-old race-bias case brought by black agents – Carol D. Leoning / Wash Post
The Secret Service agreed Tuesday to pay $24 million to settle a two-decade-old case in which more than 100 black agents alleged that the agency fostered…
Are Charter Schools Good or Bad for Black Students? Graham Vyse / New Republic
Black History Month began Wednesday, and this year’s theme is “The Crisis in Black Education.” According to the Association for the Study of African American…
Inside the Trial of Dylann Roof : The complicated moral calculation that followed a horrific crime – Jelani Cobb / The New Yorker
Trump Says Our Schools Are “Flush with Cash!?” They’re Falling Apart! – Steven Singer / Bill Moyers & Co.
What connects attacks in Québec and Charleston? Trump needs to know – Richard Wolffe / The Guardian
One of them shot and stabbed to death Jo Cox. Another massacred nine churchgoers in Charleston. Then six Canadians were gunned down at evening prayers…
FBI investigated white supremacists infiltrating law enforcement agencies: Report – Charlie May / Salon
Rev. Barber: These times require a new language and a new fusion coalition / ThinkProgress
The following is an edited version of remarks delivered by Rev. William Barber, II at the Democratic National Committee Future Forum on January 27 in…
“You can’t coddle white brothers and sisters”: The fiery racial gospel of Michael Eric Dyson – David Masciotra / Salon
John Edgar Wideman’s new book on the unsettling case of Emmitt Till’s father – Thomas Chatterton Williams / NYT
